What's the difference between accompanist and accompanyist?
Accompanist
Definition:
(n.) The performer in music who takes the accompanying part.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where Blakey had stretched the rhythmic role of bop drums by intensifying the scattered offbeat patterns sown against the steady hi-hat and ride-cymbal pulse, Jones was dispensing with the "accompanist" role altogether, and envisaging a drum part as enhancing the playing of others and being a developing musical statement itself.
(2) The following factors were taken into account in the data analysis: footwear, accompanist, time of day, estimated age and sex.
(3) Sir Michael Tippett said yesterday that the relationship of the two sovereign artists had gone through a rocky patch when Britten no longer wanted to accompany Pears on the piano, but Pears got other accompanists and the relationship survived.
(4) Meanwhile, his mother imbued him with her passions for poetry and painting, her accompanist gave him piano lessons and a friendly local librarian allowed him to borrow as much music as he wanted.