Sentence examples for accompaniment without from inspiring English sources

But you soon find the task is hopeless, as much of the material seems to be accompaniment without the tune, and a mangled version of Purcell's Dido's lament comes midway through the evening, when no one looks remotely likely to expire.

The earliest blues-like music was primarily call-and-response vocal music, without harmony or accompaniment and without any formal musical structure.

Advances in recording and performance technology now make it possible for musicians not only to fire the drummer but also — if so inclined — to do away with accompaniment altogether without losing the richness, or seemingly the spontaneity, of a full-size band.

It has been recorded many times since the 1950s, each version documenting the early-music world's changing notions of medieval performance -- with and without instrumental accompaniment, with and without high (male) voices -- but no recording has gone as far as the Ensemble Organum's 1995 account (on Harmonia Mundi) to reimagine Machaut's sound world.

They had been singing without accompaniment for much of the preceding hour; now they also went without microphones, on a version of "The Earth Has No Skin," by the way-out indie folk singer Jana Hunter.

All men, they sing beautifully, without accompaniment.

Kazu Kumagai started off by tapping emphatically without accompaniment.

That's fine: this isn't tap to music, this is tap as music, without accompaniment.

It can stands on its own, naked and without accompaniment or sauce.

She considered the request racial stereotyping, but finally sang "A City Called Heaven" without accompaniment.

Students mixed with professionals, all dancing without accompaniment (though Christiane Matallo played saxophone for two numbers, one while also tapping).