melodist

Branger was not by chance the lowly melodist, who might by chance as well have been a lofty bard; he was not Robert Burns.

The red-letter day, since such it deservedly is, on which this universal melodist first saw the light was the 10th October 1813.

Quietly drawing as near as we dared, we dropped upon the bank and listened in spellbound silence to our unseen melodist.

The gentlemen left off praising directly, and came silently into the room to hear the immortal melodist.

The tender trembling of a guitar was heard in accompaniment of the ravishing melodist.