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Course :: Course (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments..

Lyre :: Lyre (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry..

Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..

Opera :: Opera (n.) A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama..

Oratorio :: Oratorio (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted..

Dance :: Dance (v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically..

A Cappella :: A cappella () In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal..

Accompaniment :: Accompaniment (n.) 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..

Concomitancy :: Concomitancy (n.) The state of accompanying; accompaniment.

Pyrrhic :: Pyrrhic (n.) An ancient Greek martial dance, to the accompaniment of the flute, its time being very quick..

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) Strictly: A band suitable for the performance of symphonies, overtures, etc., as well as for the accompaniment of operas, oratorios, cantatas, masses, and the like, or of vocal and instrumental solos..

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Figure :: Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

To :: To (prep.) Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano..

Concerto :: Concerto (n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill..

Appanage :: Appanage (n.) That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment.

Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..

Minstrel :: Minstrel (n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician..

Fixing :: Fixing (n.) Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.

Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A drawing back of the right foot when bowing; also, a bow made with that accompaniment..

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