Background
Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.
Performance and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Performance" instead a noun "Background".
Performance
Performance noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
Background and performance are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Performance".
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Both words in one sentence
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Arthur interrupts the performance and orders the music to stop - at which point we see that what we thought was background music was actually being played live by three musicians.
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In G-Senjou no Maou, the main character's sister, who is a figure skater, uses this music as background to her freestyle performance.
Source: Music / Ride of the Valkyries -
Tool didn't want the usual background of a virtual performance to accompany their songs, and instead created an animated background for the gig that incorporates several artistic motifs from their past album art and music videos, of which eyes feature in fairly prominently.
Source: Faceless Eye
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