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Barry Manilow, to Bette Midler, in the early 1970s
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accompanist
Word definitions for accompanist in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accompanist \Ac*com"pa*nist\, n. The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. --Busby.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) [syn: accompanyist ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I'd be happy to sing, but I'll need an accompanist . ▪ Pianist Tommy Flanagan is among the finest accompanists in jazz history. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alan Strachan as director knits the whole show together neatly and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"performer who takes the accompanying part in music," 1833, from accompany + -ist . Fowler prefers accompanyist .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
Usage examples of accompanist.
Holohan came to her and proposed that her daughter should be the accompanist at a series of four grand concerts which his Society was going to give in the Antient Concert Rooms.
She entered heart and soul into the details of the enterprise, advised and dissuaded: and finally a contract was drawn up by which Kathleen was to receive eight guineas for her services as accompanist at the four grand concerts.
Bell, the first item, stood ready with his music but the accompanist made no sign.
Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.
She got to play for the Blackville Society Tap Twizzlers when their own accompanist was arrested in Glace Bay.
Kathleen glares at the accompanist, with equal parts fury and disbelief.
She expects the maestro to scold the accompanist or, preferably, fire her.
And before she is halfway through the scale, she decides: the accompanist is worse.
Therefore she was not surprised when one day Mr Holohan came to her and proposed that her daughter should be the accompanist at a series of four grand concerts which his Society was going to give in the Ancient Concert Rooms.
Mr Bell, the first item, stood ready with his music but the accompanist made no sign.
Mrs Kearney had to stand aside to allow the baritone and his accompanist to pass up to the platform.
San Francisco in 1852 as solo pianist and accompanist with the famous Catherine Hayes.
When Carlotta Patti visited the Pacific coast she especially engaged him to act as her accompanist for her concert tour.
Gustave Scott was the accompanist that evening, and it proved to be the choice number of the concert.
She also had a contralto voice of much feeling and sympathy and came to me for vocal lessons in 1896 and was my accompanist in the studio for a year, when she decided to visit England and perfect herself on the organ.