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See also:ACCOMPANIMENT (i.e. that which " accompanies ") , a musical See also:term for that See also:part of a vocal or instrumental See also:composition added to support and heighten the See also:principal vocal or instrumental part; either by means of other vocal parts, single See also:instruments or the See also:orchestra . The See also:accompaniment may be See also:obbligato or ad libitum, according as it forms an essential part of the composition or not . The term obbligato or obbligato accompaniment is also used for an See also:independent instrumental See also:solo accompanying a vocal piece . Owing to the See also:early See also:custom of only See also:writing the accompaniment in outline, by means of a " figured See also:bass," to be filled in by the performer, and to the changes in the number, quality and types of the instruments of the orchestra, " additional " accompaniments have been written for the See also:works of the older masters; such are See also:Mozart's " additional " accompaniments to See also:Handel's See also:Messiah or those to many of the See also:elder See also:Bach's works by See also:Robert See also:Franz . In See also:common parlance any support given, e.g. by the piano, to a See also:voice or See also:instrument is loosely called an accompaniment, which may be merely " vamped " by the introduction of a few chords, or may rise to the dignity of an See also:artistic composition . In the See also:history of See also:song the See also:evolution of the See also:art See also:side of an accompaniment is important, and in the higher forms the vocal and instrumental parts practically constitute a See also:duet, in which the instrumental part may be at least as important as that of the voice . |
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