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accompaniment|əˈkʌmpənɪmənt|
Also 8 accompanyment.
[a. Fr. accompagnement (13th c. in Littré) f. accompagner + -ment.]
1. Anything that accompanies; ‘something attending or added as a circumstance to another, either by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry or the like.’ Bailey 1731. Not in Johnson.
1756–82J. Warton Ess. Pope (ed. 4) I. §2. 77 The magnificent spectacle..which is, if I may be allowed the expression, the accompanyment of the picture. 1782Gilpin Wye 4 None of these landscapes however are perfect, as they want the accompaniments of foregrounds. 1875Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. (ed. 5) xvi. 286 A Roman sedition was the all but invariable accompaniment of a Roman coronation.
2. Music. The subsidiary part or parts, instrumental or vocal, added for the sake of effect to a melody or musical composition; chiefly applied to the instrumental part which sustains the voice. Hence accompaniˈmental a.
1744Dyche, Accompaniment, the instrumental part playing or moving while the voice is singing. 1754Gray Progr. Poetry i. i, Pindar styles his own poetry with its musical accompaniments αἰοληΐς µολπή. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. Wks. 1811 III. 318 The former [Purcell] adding Violin accompaniments to some of his anthems and services. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 60 Sung in unison with a modest organ-accompaniment. 1917C. Scott Philos. of Modernism ix. 71 There are two ways of treating old airs from an accompanimental point of view. 1959Times 18 May 9/7 There is nothing subordinate..in Schubert's accompanimental patterns.
3. Heraldry. ‘Such things as are applied about the shield, by way of ornament, as the belt, mantlings, supporters, etc.’ Bailey, vol. II. 1731. |