musical accompaniment

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   a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

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Questions about musical accompaniment

What does musical accompaniment mean?

musical accompaniment means "a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts".

What is another word for musical accompaniment?

Close synonyms include accompaniment, backup, support. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical accompaniment a common word?

musical accompaniment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.