obbligato

as in accompaniment
something that is found along with something else with the babble of the brook as an obbligato, we enjoyed our picnic

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Recent Examples on the Web There is a lovely horn obbligato to Sifare’s Act 3 aria which would be challenging to play on a modern instrument. Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2023 As an obbligato of protest continued behind Wilson, Dylan, accepting Wilson’s advice, sang the insert. Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021 The long orchestral introduction left no doubt as to where composer Stephenson’s interests lay, the work’s first two movements amounting to symphonic statements with bass trombone obbligato. Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019 The aria is enhanced by trumpet and oboe obbligatos, which were handled deftly by trumpeter Steve Marquardt and oboist Debra Nagy. Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 16 Oct. 2017 The orchestra's alert accompaniment was at one with the pianist's purposes, as was Stefan Ragnar Hoskuldsson's dulcet flute obbligato in the opening movement. John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2017

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