A Topical Dictionary: Search for accompaniment

Dictionary Results For "accompaniment" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From accompagnement.

Pronunciation

, IPA: /əˈkʌmpənimənt/,

Noun

That which gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation.
That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
A part performed by instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a figured bass.

Translations

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Category:French derivations

ar:accompaniment fa:accompaniment io:accompaniment id:accompaniment hu:accompaniment ja:accompaniment pt:accompaniment ru:accompaniment fi:accompaniment te:accompaniment vi:accompaniment tr:accompaniment

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Accompaniment \Ac*com"pa*ni*ment\ (-ment), n. [F.
accompagnement.]
That which accompanies; something that attends as a
circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness
to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the
sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.) A part performed by
instruments, accompanying another part or parts performed by
voices; the subordinate part, or parts, accompanying the
voice or a principal instrument; also, the harmony of a
figured bass. --P. Cyc.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet accompaniment
n 1: an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in
connection with another [syn: concomitant, co-occurrence]
2: a subordinate musical part; provides background for more
important parts [syn: musical accompaniment, backup, support]
3: the act of accompanying someone or something in order to
protect them [syn: escort]

Moby Dictionary
accession , accessory , accordance , addenda , addendum , additament ,
addition , additive , additory , additum , adjunct , adjuvant ,
agreement , alliance , alto , annex , annexation , appanage , appendage ,
appendant , appurtenance , appurtenant , association , attachment ,
augment , augmentation , baritone , bass , basso continuo ,
basso ostinato , bassus , cahoots , canto , cantus , cantus figuratus ,
cantus planus , co-working , coaction , coda , coetaneity ,
coetaneousness , coevalneity , coevalness , coexistence , coincidence ,
collaboration , collectivity , collusion , combination ,
combined effort , complement , concert , concerted action ,
concomitance , concomitant , concordance , concourse , concurrence ,
confluence , conjunction , consilience , conspiracy , contemporaneity ,
contemporaneousness , continuation , continuo , contralto ,
cooperation , corollary , correspondence , descant , drone , extension ,
extrapolation , figured bass , fixture , ground bass , increase ,
increment , isochronism , junction , line , offshoot , parasitism , part ,
pendant , plain chant , plain song , prick song , reinforcement ,
saprophytism , side effect , side issue , simultaneity , soprano ,
supplement , symbiosis , synchronism , synchronization , synergy ,
tailpiece , tenor , thorough bass , treble , undergirding , undersong ,
union , unison , united action , voice , voice part