melodist

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mel·o·dize

(mĕl′ə-dīz′)
v. mel·o·dized, mel·o·diz·ing, mel·o·diz·es
v.tr.
1. To write a melody for (a song lyric).
2. To make melodious.
v.intr.
To compose a melody.
mel′o·diz′er, mel′o·dist n.
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melodist

(ˈmɛlədɪst)
n
1. (Music, other) a composer of melodies
2. (Music, other) a singer
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mel•o•dist

(ˈmɛl ə dɪst)

n.
a composer or singer of melodies.
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melodist

a person who composes or sings melodies.
See also: Music
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In that respect he was one among a throng of melodists who made the Elizabethan age in many respects the greatest lyric period in the history of English or perhaps of any literature.
As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable.
fi He is also a man of many tunes, all of them whistle-able, and his fellow melodists - Chris Young on alto, Richard Foote on trombone, David Ferris on organ - embrace them whole-heartedly.
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The artists on this CD include five singers as melodists and four singers listed as isokrates, with the performing editions by Dr.
Mt. Sinai: Frontier Of Byzantium: (Voices of Byzantium: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Mt. Sinai)
We are both melodists and I'm a huge admirer of his work.
James Walsh; Quick One With
Forget the commercial, recycled tunes you hear on a daily basis, these songwriters, melodists and lyricists put the art back into music production and present us with fresh, new music.
Be On The Scene Live Music Event
"I think Chris Martin is one of the most important melodists since Noel Gallagher, since Ray Davies, since Paul McCartney.
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All of these pieces, however, confirm Elgar's reputation as one of the greatest melodists in England's history and perhaps its finest church composer since Henry Purcell.
Sound recording reviews
Tunes of all kinds are what this concert was all about, and the melodists included Wesleyan hymn masters, Berlioz, Prokofiev, Lloyd Webber, Cesar Franck plus the effete and wishy-washy John Rutter.
Honley offer lots to cheer
One of Hollywood's greatest melodists was a Paramount regular: Victor Young, whose Spanish-flavored "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943), haunting "The Uninvited" (1944), lush "Love Letters" (1945) and exotic "Samson and Delilah" (1950) remain classics of an earlier generation of film music.
I hear a symphony
Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy (Hanover, 1996), 257-72; "Fashionable Fred," Australian Melodist (Melbourne, n.d.), no.1, 90-91; "Razors in the Air," Kirkby's Popular Songbook (Sydney, 1882), 22-3; "The Man With the Seal-Skin Pants," Clark and Ryman's Minstrel Songster (San Francisco, 1882), 13.
Leary kin: Australian larrikins and the blackface minstrel dandy