Music GCSE
Accompaniment and harmony
What Accompaniment and harmony means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Accompaniment and harmony
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The background supplies harmony, rhythm, pulse or atmosphere, and the piano provides chords, an accompaniment figure and harmonic support.
Topics that use Accompaniment and harmony
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Basso continuo
- Changes of sonority
- Figured bass realisation
- Homophonic
- Imitation and contrapuntal writing
- Listening and identification
- Monophonic
- Monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic textures
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