Term: descant: a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: diflunisal: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: flatness: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: fall: the season when the leaves fall from the trees
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: burdensomeness: unwelcome burdensome difficulty
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: stage dancing: a show involving artistic dancing
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: timer: a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: time-delay measuring instrument: chronoscope for measuring the time difference between two events
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: cigar band: a narrow paper band around a cigar
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: standard cell: a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force
Broader: accompaniment: a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Unrelated: planck's law: (physics) the basis of quantum theory; the energy of electromagnetic waves is contained in indivisible quanta that have to be radiated or absorbed as a whole; the magnitude is proportional to frequency where the constant of proportionality is given by Planck's constant