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A subordinate musical part
Answer for the clue "A subordinate musical part ", 13 letters:
accompaniment
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Word definitions for accompaniment in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) 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, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another [syn: concomitant , co-occurrence ] a subordinate musical part; provides background for more important parts [syn: musical accompaniment , backup , support ] the act ...
Usage examples of accompaniment.
Of course I intended to send back her letters, but not without the accompaniment of a billet-doux, the gallantry of which was not likely to please her.
Sophie went to the piano, played with feeling, and then sang some Italian airs, to the accompaniment of the guitar, too well for her age.
Miliaria is almost universally an accompaniment of febrile disease, and all disorders in which there occurs a profuse perspiration.
In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.
Toulouse to the accompaniment of mass in the cathedral and Te Deum sung in all the churches.
July 17 to the accompaniment of numerous jokes about the hot young couple.
The spirit of a world-famed violinist played as though behind veils a romance by Rubinstein, to a piano accompaniment that sounded thin and cold, like a spinet.
Sometimes the symphonic accompaniment would fade far off and be forgot.
Thick was sitting on the deck at my feet, his eyes closed, swaying miserably, his music a queasy accompaniment to the rhythm of his body.
Cockle sang two songs without accompaniment, for he was not willing to risk either his hands or his instruments by exposure to the chilling wind.
At that pizzicato, she literally gave voice and sang in accompaniment to the music.
There were tiny bags of an almost impalpably fine grit which Jamshid said was fern seed, to be employed by those who knew the proper accompaniment of magical incantations, to make their corporeal persons invisible.
She lovingly bore it everywhere we journeyed and, in palace or karwansarai or yurtu or on open camp ground, Hui-sheng made sure that the sweet scent of warm clover after a gentle rain was the accompaniment of all our nights.
On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.
The perfect expression of thought requires the physical accompaniments of language, gesture, etc.