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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Accompaniments

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68272Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — AccompanimentsJohn Weeks Moore

Accompaniments. Those instrumental parts in a composition which do not include the principal or principals, but which are added to relieve them, to supply the necessary chasms, fill up the harmony, decorate and variegate the motive, and heighten the general effect.