as in composer
a person who writes musical compositions
a melodist whose music is not likely to be very accessible to the casual listener
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With more than 125 film scores, Isham has been hailed as an innovator in electronics and a lush orchestral melodist.
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
In Radiance Rising, inspired by anime openings, Ben Spivey imagines the violins as melodists, the viola as an electric guitar, the cello as percussion, progressing to a dancelike ending.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
His poetry has been continuously set to music by composers, from his contemporaries to still-living melodists, including Carrie Jacobs-Bond, John Alden Carpenter, Harry Thacker Burleigh, William Bolcom and Zenobia Powell Perry.
—Minnita Daniel-Cox, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s six-concert winter festival, the Magic of Schubert, considers the legacy of a melodist both gracious and sublime, all culminating in the unrushed pleasures of Schubert’s hour-long Octet in F Major (Jan. 22-Feb. 10).
—Oussama Zahr, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
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.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020
As a tunesmith, the nonpareil melodist Bacharach found fame in every medium.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
But the Romanian conductor happens to be music director of the Cabrillo Festival, which was founded by Lou Harrison, California’s great melodist and eclectic.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
Where Lang Lang is a melodist, Wang is marvel of rhythm.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
In Radiance Rising, inspired by anime openings, Ben Spivey imagines the violins as melodists, the viola as an electric guitar, the cello as percussion, progressing to a dancelike ending.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
His poetry has been continuously set to music by composers, from his contemporaries to still-living melodists, including Carrie Jacobs-Bond, John Alden Carpenter, Harry Thacker Burleigh, William Bolcom and Zenobia Powell Perry.
—Minnita Daniel-Cox, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s six-concert winter festival, the Magic of Schubert, considers the legacy of a melodist both gracious and sublime, all culminating in the unrushed pleasures of Schubert’s hour-long Octet in F Major (Jan. 22-Feb. 10).
—Oussama Zahr, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2022
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.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020
As a tunesmith, the nonpareil melodist Bacharach found fame in every medium.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
But the Romanian conductor happens to be music director of the Cabrillo Festival, which was founded by Lou Harrison, California’s great melodist and eclectic.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
Where Lang Lang is a melodist, Wang is marvel of rhythm.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
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“Melodist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodist. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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