melodist
Americannoun
noun
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a composer of melodies
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a singer
Etymology
Origin of melodist
Example Sentences
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Franz Schubert, master melodist and progenitor of the song cycle, never wrote for the theater with success, producing scores for singspiels, operas and incidental music that collect dust on the shelf.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022
But he is a melodist, too, and in his second tune, a lively one based on “What Is This Thing Called Love?,” he piled up heaps of rich melodies in the bebop vernacular.
From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2021
Harrison liked to say music is a song and a dance, and in the last decades of the 20th century no one could touch him as a melodist.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2020
Mandel was primarily a melodist and would seek out lyricists for his songs.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2020
Doublet, small-clothes, silk-clocked hose; Wears my midnight melodist, Snowy ruffles in his bosom, Snowy ruffles at his wrist.
From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret
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