What's the difference between accompanist and performer?
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.
Performer
Definition:
(n.) One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(3) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(4) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(5) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(7) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
(8) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(9) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
(10) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(12) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
(13) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(14) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(15) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(16) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(17) Just after blood sampling, FEV1 measurements were performed.
(18) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(19) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
(20) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.