composer
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3.9
- noun
- /kəmˈpoʊzər/
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compositor
- Some people think, well, the composer wrote the music.
- composers write music
- composer's music
- performers and composers
In fact, there was a Mexican composer, Conlin Noncaro.
- In fact, there was a Mexican composer, Conlin Noncaro.
- You play the violin, maybe you know all the great composers.
- And my dad was a great film and television composer.
- He had a pupil, Thomas Atwood, who became a court composer in England during the reign of Victoria.
- You know, what is your advice for young composers?
- And his close friend was Benjamin Britton, famous English composer.
- So Gainsbourg is this incredible French composer.
- Our next performer, Laura Portman, is White Mountain Apache and is a Brooklyn based composer, musician and visual artist.
- As such, it seems connected, I would think, by to the nature of hearing the composer Marie Schaefer has written.
- Is that unusual for composers to do those various tasks?
- Is James Brown one of the greatest composers ain't playing an instrument.
Examples
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The printed program includes information that supports the performance by highlighting the composers, instruments, or stories.
Academic text (2015) -
I think the composer would have appreciated that.
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And I was sure we had a famous composer living here.
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I think when I came to Hollywood, it was as a composer, right?
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Her husband was a composer at Columbia.
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I thought I was going to be a composer and conductor.
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Wagner is the greatest composer that ever lived.
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And Mozart is thought to be a composer who worked at the piano.
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Our musician plays with the composer's original score, making his own changes to the arrangement.
Academic text (2013) -
The composer shared his latest symphony with the orchestra during rehearsal.
Synonyms
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2.8
A person who makes the words and music for popular tunes
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7.0
A person who writes songs or melodies for popular music
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7.0
A person who writes songs for a living
A person who writes the words or music of songs that tell a story
A person who writes or leads music for an orchestra
A person who writes religious songs for use in worship
A person who writes or performs tunes
How Skilled
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Morphology
Etymology
Composer comes from the Latin parts com- and ponere, where com- means 'together' and ponere means 'to put'. So a composer is someone who 'puts together' sounds and musical ideas to make a piece of music.