accompaniment
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
accompaniment/əˈkʌmpənimənt/
▶noun
- 1 a musical part which supports or partners an instrument, voice, or group.
- 2 something that supplements or complements something else.
– origin C18: from Fr. accompagnement, from accompagner ‘accompany’.
'accompaniment' also found in these Oxford entries:
a cappella
- accompanist
- accompany
- back
- background music
- backing
- backing track
- bal musette
- Bombay duck
- cachucha
- castanets
- comp
- incidental
- lied
- Madeira cake
- organum
- ragtime
- refrain
- sing
- sonata
- soundtrack
- tanpura
- unaccompanied
- wasabi
