Definitions for composer
kəmˈpoʊ zərcom·pos·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. composernoun

   someone who composes music as a profession

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Composernoun

   Etymology: from compose.

   1. An author; a writer.

   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.

   2. He that adapts the musick to words; he that forms a tune.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

WikidataRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

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.

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1. composer

   A person who creates songs

   
   

   Submitted by kdubred on May 4, 2021  

Matched Categories

1. • Musician

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

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

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How to pronounce composer?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

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   Australian

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   Australian

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How to say composer in sign language?

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. Arthur Honegger:

   There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

2. Frank Zappa:

   A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

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. Hector Berlioz:

   Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

5. May Sarton:

   A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=composer
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Composer
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=composer
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/composer
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=composer
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=composer