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Definitions for composer
kəmˈpoʊ zərcom·pos·er

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. composernoun

    someone who composes music as a profession

Wiktionary

  1. composernoun

    One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.

  2. composernoun

    One who, or that which, quits or calms.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Composernoun

    Etymology: from compose.

    Now will be the right season of forming them to be able writers and composers in every excellent matter. John Milton.

    If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least do no harm, and shew an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 40.

    For composition I prefer next Ludovico, a most judicious and sweet composer. Henry Peacham, of Musick.

    The composer has so expressed my sense, where I intended to move the passions, that he seems to have been the poet as well as the composer. John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, Preface.

Wikipedia

  1. Composer

    A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.

ChatGPT

  1. composer

    A composer is a person who creates or writes music, either in the form of songs or pieces for instruments, often orchestrating or arranging it as well. This creative act can involve a range of styles and genres including classical, pop, film music, and more. The composed music can be either for performance by an instrumental ensemble or soloist, or composed specifically for a diverse range of media including film, television, or theater.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Composernoun

    one who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music

  2. Composernoun

    one who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference

Wikidata

  1. Composer

    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material as electroacoustic music.

Editors Contribution

  1. composer

    A person who creates songs


    Submitted by kdubred on May 4, 2021  

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'composer' in Nouns Frequency: #2311

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of composer in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of composer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of composer in a Sentence

  1. Peter Ross:

    You have to go to the composer himself, or his heirs, play the work, and get his approval, that, he never did.

  2. Aaron Sorkin:

    People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

  3. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky:

    I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  4. Dr. Irvin Yalom:

    I've received many tributes but none touched me as yours did. you're both a musician and a very fine poet. An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold) - irv yalom

  5. Dr. Irvin Yalom:

    An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold).

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