accompaniment

IPA: ʌkˈʌmpnɪmʌnt

(music) A part, usually performed by instruments, that gives support or adds to the background in music, or adds for ornamentation; also, the harmony of a figured bass.
That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.

Examples of "accompaniment" in Sentences

The knot was tied to the accompaniment.
The final type of musical accompaniment is the percussion pattern.
They perform choreographed moves to the accompaniment of drums and music.
The musical accompaniment is also sometimes used to taunt the other team.
With musical accompaniment from the Conqueror Wyrms and the Plasma Miasma.
The orchestra for the most part plays a discreet accompaniment to the soloist.
Their traditional accompaniment is salsa borracha - “drunken sauce” - made with pasilla chiles and pulque.
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).
Later yet, at a Boheme, i really can't hear Luciano's top at all, except when the accompaniment is vide or he happens to catch hold of a phrase riding nicely from below, as at the opening of "O Mimi, tu piu."
Sting's Songs from the Labyrinth features the music of John Dowland – a melancholic Elizabethan era composer – and accompaniment from the Bosnian lute player Edin Karamazov… A spokesman for the awards, which are produced by the British Phonographic Institute, said the only previous instances of a non-classical artist being nominated were Roger Waters last year and the techno-classicist William Orbit in 2001.