Accompanist meaning

Noun: accompanist

Pronunciation:(u’kúm-pu-nist)

Accompanist meaning:

• A person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano)

Synonyms: accompanyist, comp
Derived forms: accompanists

Verb: accompany
Quotations:

1. Nancy Moser – There is much more to playing the clavier than playing written music. Do you realize with accompanying there is often nothing written out but the bass line the left hand? There might be a few notations as to a suggested harmony, but it is up to me to fill in the music, at the proper volume, style, and harmony for the soloist often instantly. I’ve heard it said that Bach questioned whether the soloist or the accompanist deserves the greatest glory.
2. Ann Patchett – She would not attend the dinner, she did not eat before she sang but would arrive at the end of the meal and perform six arias with her accompanist.

Sample sentences:

1. my skin listening still no accompanist: I can’t kiss me!and the sperm’s tempoalways insisting
2. You didn’t worry every time you got up with kit in the middle of the night?” “How did you know we were awake?” He shot her a peculiar look from across the kitchen then went back to hanging towels. “You have a pretty voice, Sophie.” It made no sense, but his compliment had her blushing. She’d received compliments before, on her attire, her mare, her embroidery, but her voice wasn’t something she’d purchased or made, it was part of her. “My mother thought we should all learn an instrument,” she said. “I tried piano, but my next oldest brother is so astoundingly good at it, I put him to use as my accompanist from time to time. My whole family likes to sing, except my father. He cannot, as they say, carry a tune in a bucket.” She
3. The jamband harmonica virtuoso, author of the new memoir ‘Suck & Blow,’ played accompanist and villain in an improvised musical in Hollywood.
4. But it’s always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
5. Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
6. My accompanists are Danny Barnes and Dennis Crouch. Dennis is a fantastic upright bass player — and Danny sings harmony and plays electric guitar and he plays the banjo. Danny’s been playing since September with me and we can do most everything fairly convincingly from the records, especially with that electric guitar arsenal.
7. Musicians said that she was the ideal accompanist, never asserting herself, but giving perfect sympathy and support to the singer.
8. In fact, he’s a much better accompanist than he is singer.
9. She teamed up with an energetic young accompanist, a pianist named William.
10. The contestants with their teachers and accompanists filled the auditorium, while the judges sat by themselves high up in the balcony.
11. Usually, however, accompanists are expected to be able to play solos.
12. He had sung a trifle sharp, and she, like a perfect accompanist, had brought him back to the key.
13. There were nine of them, men and women; the ninth being the accompanist.
14. Tempests of amused applause meanwhile surged up around our lonely accompanist stranded in the hall.
15. Who should be her accompanist when she returned?
16. After the concert we made her sing for us and our accompanist played for her.
17. There are no special schools for accompanists, though there may be possibly some special courses in which experience may be fostered.
18. He argued that the American public, particularly in the South, would not accept a white man as Anderson’s accompanist.
19. I kept saying to myself, as the accompanist opened fire on her song.
20. It was plain that the accompanist had been prepared for Nell’s new move.
21. It is most important that the accompanist should understand your reading of the air.
22. Nothing discouraged, though somewhat wrath, Arditi succeeded in unearthing an accompanist, who struggled bravely with the pianoforte score.
23. He continued as her accompanist during both her American and European tours, while Marian and Billy continued as friends.
24. Golden van Huysen pronounced its present name to the accompanist, who struck four cords on the piano.
25. Then he sat down fingering his banjo pegs, and twice asked the accompanist for a note on the piano.
26. Without a pause, the singer whispered to her accompanist.
27. The mountain singer’s knees trembled a little as the accompanist struck the keys, and her first note stole out, sweetly clear and naturally fresh.
28. She spoke to her accompanist, then, clasping her hands behind her, she threw back her head with a funny little gesture and sang.
29. Formerly his accompanist had waited until he gave him his hand.
30. As no one else stirred, it was plain that she was going to dispense with the services of an accompanist.