a piano accompaniment to a song

  • 1accompaniment — [ə kum′pə nə mənt, ə kum′pənēmənt; ] often [, ə kump′nəmənt, ə kump′nēmənt] n. 1. anything that accompanies something else; thing added, usually for order or symmetry 2. Music a part, usually instrumental, performed together with the main part… …

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  • 2accompaniment — n. 1) an accompaniment to (a piano accompaniment to a song) 2) to the accompaniment of (to the accompaniment of soft music) * * * [ə kʌmp(ə)nɪmənt] an accompaniment to (a piano accompaniment to a song) to the accompaniment of (to the… …

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  • 3song — songlike, adj. /sawng, song/, n. 1. a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad. 2. a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn s Songs without… …

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  • 4Song — /sawng/, n. Pinyin. 1. Ailing /uy ling /. See Soong, Ai ling. 2. Qingling /ching ling /. See Soong, Ching ling. 3. Meiling /may ling /. See Soong, Mei ling. 4. Ziwen …

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  • 5accompaniment — /euh kum peuh ni meuhnt, euh kump ni /, n. 1. something incidental or added for ornament, symmetry, etc. 2. Music. a part in a composition designed to serve as background and support for more important parts. [1725 35; ACCOMPANY + MENT] * * * ▪… …

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  • 6Song cycle — For the Van Dyke Parks album, see Song Cycle (album). A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet.… …

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  • 7Song — This article is about the musical composition. For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). Three singers a trio singing a song while accompanied on a lute played by one of the singers. Das Konzert [The Concert] (c. 1490, Lorenzo Costa). In music,… …

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  • 8accompaniment — [[t]əkʌ̱mpnɪmənt[/t]] accompaniments 1) N COUNT: usu with supp The accompaniment to a song or tune is the music that is played at the same time as it and forms a background to it. He sang My Funny Valentine and Wanted to musical director Jim… …

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  • 9Piano Quintet No. 2 (Dvořák) — Antonín Dvořák s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, op. 81, B. 155, is a quintet for piano, 2 violins, viola, and cello. It was composed between August 18 and October 8 of 1887, and was premiered in Prague on January 6, 1888. The quintet is… …

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  • 10Death and the Maiden (song) — This article is about the 1817 composition by Franz Schubert. For the Verlaines song, see Death and the Maiden (Verlaines song). Franz Schubert, composer Der Tod und das Mädchen (D.531, February 1817, published by Cappi und Diabelli in Vienna in… …

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