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melodist|ˈmɛləʊdɪst|
[f. melody + -ist.]
1. A singer.
In the first half of the 19th c. somewhat frequently used in the titles of collections of songs with music.
1789Trifler No. 33. 419 Often I am constrained to listen to the broken notes of ignorant, but presumptuous melodists. 1817(title) The Melodist..an excellent collection of..songs. Selected and compiled by R. L. I. 1819Keats Ode Grecian Urn iii, Happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new. 1840Sir H. Bishop in Grove Dict. Mus. III. 249, I hail the establishment of the Melodists' Club..as essentially calculated to aid the cause of the musical art in this country. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xxiii. (1885) 226 The choir of Ethiopian melodists. 1892W. H. Hudson Natur. La Plata 28 The rufous tinamou—sweet and mournful melodist of the eventide.
2. A composer of melodies; one skilled in melody.
1826M. Kelly Remin. I. 225, I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post horses. 1872Lowell Milton Prose Wks. 1890 IV. 96 Milton was a harmonist rather than a melodist. 1893W. Graham in 19th Cent. Nov. 765 As an absolute melodist—I mean a master of word-music as distinct from other qualities—I consider Swinburne unequalled. |