accompaniment

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  1. noun Music A vocal or instrumental part that supports another, often solo, part.
  2. noun Something, such as a situation, that accompanies something else; a concomitant.
  3. noun Something added for embellishment, completeness, or symmetry; complement.

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  • The second (in D flat major) of Op. 27 was, no doubt, conceived in a more auspicious moment than the first (in C sharp minor), of which the extravagantly wide-meshed netting of the accompaniment is the most noteworthy feature. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
  • Fortunately the change made no difference to the rest of the orchestra, their accompaniment was the same to all tunes, and "Nelly Bly" was finished in triumph, and received with applause by the good-natured audience and calls for "first-violin But the orchestra had already dispersed to aid in the grand opening scene, the wolf-hunt, an "historical incident in the life of General Israel Putnam of glorious memory," as the written programme designated it. —  The Old Stone House
  • The usual breakfast accompaniment is Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk; the intensely vegetal pennywort tea is worth trying too.
  • At other times the accompaniment is as simple as the melody, and serves no other purpose than that of supporting the voice. —  The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
  • In the second line, "A stone, alas, in the sea will sink; my grief returns to me," the lower part of the accompaniment is at the same pitch and identical with the melody itself, but the voice breaks through at the emphatic climax of the phrase, "grief." —  The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
 

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  1. from accompany, q. v., + -ment; after F. accompagnement, Old French acompaignement = Spanish acompañamiento = Portuguese acompanhamento = Italian accompagnamento.

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/ (ə-kŭmˈpə-nē-mənt, ə-kŭmpˈnē-)/
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