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What does accompaniment mean?

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  1. (music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
  2. 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.
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Add Pedja Muzijevic's elegant and supportive piano accompaniment, and this is a Winterreise that repays an attentive ear and a watchful eye.
This is because when singing romances, a singer must rely only on his or her voice and the accompaniment of the piano and not on stage props.
A couple of minutes later, voices struck up an accompaniment to the drumbeat.
Whatever accompaniment you choose, tomato water lets its colors shine through but packs a wallop of supporting flavor.
To the accompaniment of vintage jazz records, the train chugs up and down the otherwise closed branch line from Arcady to Flaxfield Junction.
Piano I intensifies the accompaniment of the bell effects by passing from quadruplet sixteenth to triplet sixteenth.

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