Definition of "accompaniment" []

• Music A vocal or instrumental part that supports another, often solo, part. (noun)
• Something, such as a situation, that accompanies something else; a concomitant. (noun)
• Something added for embellishment, completeness, or symmetry; complement. (noun)

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• "Inevitably, the Q&A would stop and some hideous, generic Muzak-style instrumentals would play in accompaniment of the exercising."
• "A soprano singing with a piano accompaniment is also heard as a coherent happening, despite being composed of distinct sounds (notes)."
• "Their traditional accompaniment is salsa borracha - “drunken sauce” - made with pasilla chiles and pulque."