instrumental accompaniment

collocation in English

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instrumental
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.strəˈmen.təl/us
/ˌɪn.strəˈmen.t̬əl/
formal
If someone or something is instrumental in a process, plan, or system, that person or thing is one of the most important influences in causing it ...
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accompaniment
noun
uk
/əˈkʌm.pən.ɪ.mənt/us
/əˈkʌm.pən.ɪ.mənt/
music that is played with someone who is singing or playing the ...
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Musicians from outside are often brought in to assist with theinstrumentalaccompaniment.
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At the same time they overlay and reinforce a pre-existing musical binary - the primacy of the lead vocal over the ' subservient' backing chorus -instrumentalaccompaniment.
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He then sets them to song, with modestinstrumentalaccompaniment, and they are distributed.
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The answer to the first question must be that the characters themselves compose the expressiveinstrumentalaccompanimentto their expressive utterances.
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Pipeth presents the most difficulties, but it, like organum, could imply either a shrill vocal technique orinstrumentalaccompanimenton a pipe or flute.
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Listen to almost any modern performance of troubadour or trouvere song, for example, and you will find yourself in a sound-world ofinstrumentalaccompanimentthat is more or less make-believe.
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Nelusko's vocal presence is echoed in theinstrumentalaccompanimentof the ballad.
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Pollarolo has been credited with expanding the dimensions of the aria and increasing the use ofinstrumentalaccompaniment.
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He may have been the first composer to provide liturgical music with aninstrumentalaccompaniment.
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With eight or more parts to keep track of in performance, works in polychoral style required some sort ofinstrumentalaccompaniment.
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The musical performer is called a manualist, who may perform a cappella or withinstrumentalaccompaniment.
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The messages were compiled and presented with a relaxedinstrumentalaccompaniment, resulting in what the band considers to be one of their most touching tracks.
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The book is historically important because it has parts for aninstrumentalaccompanimentof broken consort and introduces the term consort song.
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Most of his works would be songs for solo voice andinstrumentalaccompaniment.
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I began to compose melodies to which one could dance withoutinstrumentalaccompaniment, trying to use as little syncopation as possible.
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Music without any non-vocalinstrumentalaccompanimentis referred to as "a cappella".
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It includesinstrumentalaccompanimentof a drum, fiddle, flute, khene, lute, and other percussive instruments.
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Theinstrumentalaccompanimentis by piano plus one or more of mandolin, string or brass bass, triangle or other small percussion, trumpet, and trombone.
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The interior of the building had galleries round the north, west and south sides, with a singing loft for choir andinstrumentalaccompaniment.
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