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MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musical accompaniment mean? 

MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT (noun)
  The noun MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT has 1 sense:

1. a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical partsplay

  Familiarity information: MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

accompaniment; backup; musical accompaniment; support

Hypernyms ("musical accompaniment" is a kind of...):

part; voice (the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical accompaniment"):

descant; discant (a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody)

vamp (an improvised musical accompaniment)


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