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Musical accompaniment   /mjˈuzɪkəl əkˈəmpnɪmənt/   Listen
Musical accompaniment

noun
1.
A musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts.  Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, support.






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"Musical accompaniment" Quotes from Famous Books



... draws a circle and places mysterious articles therein; meanwhile the glasses begin to ring, the caldron to sound, and make a musical accompaniment. Finally she brings a great book, and stations in the circle the Apes, who are obliged to serve as reading-desk, and to hold the torches. She ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... life, and has made many translations from the original. I do not care much for Gyges' Ring; it is hammered out rather than created. But some of the author's short poems, to which he has often composed his own musical accompaniment, I find full of charm. Best of all, I think, is the imaginative ...
— The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century • William Lyon Phelps



Words linked to "Musical accompaniment" :   part, voice, discant, vamp, support, descant



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