melodist

Example Sentences

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He followed it with a nod to another great melodist, Ornette Coleman.

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

We think of Bernstein as a melodist, and it’s true that the vocal lines of “West Side Story” are gorgeous, even when they’re spiky.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2018

The singer was the peculiar organ of the composer—his "Thorn," his "Mouth which a Smile," "Tom Moody," "Heaving the Lead," and many, many others, seem to have faded away with the voice of the melodist.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 by Various