melodist

Example Sentences

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Franz Schubert, master melodist and progenitor of the song cycle, never wrote for the theater with success, producing scores for singspiels, operas and incidental music that collect dust on the shelf.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

But he is a melodist, too, and in his second tune, a lively one based on “What Is This Thing Called Love?,” he piled up heaps of rich melodies in the bebop vernacular.

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

Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light.

From A Kentucky Cardinal by Allen, James Lane