companion piece

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

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First recorded in 1835–45

This very amiable bit of advice is a companion-piece to the panegyric upon the prince's father written about twelve years before.
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam|Ephraim Emerton
Probably Donnes verses were written as a companion-piece to the present poem.
Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age|Various
This fragment is a companion-piece to the engraved fac-simile of a page of Pope's Homer, in this volume.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3)|Isaac Disraeli
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

The companion-piece to the portrait of my future husband was the portrait of his future wife.
Embarrassments|Henry James