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musicianly

  • a word derived from musician.
    musician
    noun
    a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.

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And at the Met this week, she did the job with musicianly care, assured technical command, subtlety and imagination.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Tall musicianly types gawked at pianist Cameron Graves' twisted solos, wondered on keyboard player Brandon Coleman's way with the Moog Liberation first-generation keytar.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2015

For all his pianistic skills and musicianly refinement, he can be an idiosyncratic interpreter.

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2012

Overnight, the old-fashioned musicianly virtues of well-played guitars, bass and drums were reinstated.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2012

He especially excelled in improvising choral variations, and in fanciful and musicianly treatment of themes proposed by the hearer.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews