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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 parts
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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