companion piece

noun

a literary or musical work that has a close relationship to another work by the same author or composer.

Origin of companion piece

First recorded in 1835–45

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Historical Examples of companion piece

The companion-piece to the portrait of my future husband was the portrait of his future wife.
Embarrassments
Henry James
She too must give me something on my engagement—wouldn't she give me the companion-piece?
Embarrassments
Henry James
Probably Donnes verses were written as a companion-piece to the present poem.
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
Various
John Leech, who so reveled in the "Camps at Cobham," would here have found a companion-piece for the opposition of the picture.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals
T. C. DeLeon
It will form a companion-piece to Goethes Bardt sans comparaison with all other authors.
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3)
Alexander Wheelock Thayer