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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 here is instead provided by finger-picked acoustic guitar and strings in an orchestration by longtime Beatles producer George Martin, who created the show’s mash-up soundtrack in collaboration with his son, Giles Martin.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2016

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

With an Elementary Survey of the Heavens, designed as an Accompaniment to this Atlas, by Robert Grant, M.A.

From Cattle and Cattle-breeders by M'Combie, William




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