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accompaniment

musical parts which provide the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece
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accompaniment

Summary

accompaniment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (93 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • accompaniment is a type of musical performance[2].
  • accompaniment is a type of part[3].
  • accompaniment's Commons category is recorded as Accompaniment[4].
  • accompaniment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Accompaniment[5].
  • accompaniment's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6].
  • accompaniment's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • accompaniment's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8].
  • accompaniment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • accompaniment's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[10].
  • accompaniment's practiced by is recorded as accompanist[11].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include musical performance[2] and part[3].

Why It Matters

accompaniment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (93 views/month).[1] accompaniment has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] accompaniment is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Accompaniment
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → musical performance, part
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1746, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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