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accompaniment

[uh-kuhm-puh-ni-muhnt, uh-kuhmp-ni-] / əˈkʌm pə nɪ mənt, əˈkʌmp nɪ- /


NOUN
music that supports a theme or performer in a composition
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Accompaniment features piano, trumpet, bass and percussion, with Broadway’s Marcy Harriell on lead vocals.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2022

Accompaniment is by a single pianist, Bill Strongin.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2018

Musical Accompaniment: In honor of the newest member of Canada’s music Hall of Fame:

From US News • Mar. 18, 2015

Bring Out Your Ringtones, and Other Requests for Accompaniment So Percussion Members of the group, aided by the electronica duo Matmos, performing “Needles,” which included the playing of a cactus, at Zankel Hall.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2012

Drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith, intended as an Accompaniment to the celebrated Histories of Stow, Pennant, and others.”

From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by Smith, John Thomas




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