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composer|kəmˈpəʊzə(r)|
[f. compose v. + -er1. Cf. F. composeur.]
1. a. One who puts together or combines into a whole; one who fashions or constructs. rare.
1644Bp. Williams Rights of Kings (1662) 43 (T.) To be the composers. contrivers, or assistants, in concluding of any ecclesiastical law. 1657May Satir. Puppy 40 Farewell Poetry; thou trim Composer of disjuncted Sense. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxiii. 278 Composers of green Arbours. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 146 A wise man is the proper composer of an excellent Sallet.
†b. A mixer or mingler. Obs.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 58 a, These composers or mongerels with their temperature and mixture.
†c. A component, a constituent part. Obs.
1610Markham Masterp. i. iv. 11 Humours..are the third composers of a horses body.
2. One who composes a literary work; an author or writer.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 101 Like unto composers of Tragedies. 1644Milton Educ., Able writers and composers in every excellent matter. 1818Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 646 Instances in which great critics have shewn themselves not very correct composers. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. iii. 21 Moses being not the mere collector, but the composer of the documents contained in Genesis.
3. One who composes music. (The usual sense, when used without defining additions.)
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 181 Some wil be good descanters..and yet wil be but bad composers. 1644Milton Educ., The well studied chords of some choice composer. 1691Dryden Albion & Alb. Pref., The Composer Monsieur Grabut..has so exactly express'd my sense..that he seems..to have been the Poet as well as the Composer. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 413/1 Mr. Cowen is also the composer of many popular songs. 1883Rockstro Life Handel xxviii, The greatest Composer in the world.
4. One who arranges or groups according to the laws of artistic composition; † a designer.
1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6171/7 Henry Shallcross late of Morden..Composer to the Callicoe Factory there. 1836Emerson Nature, Beauty Wks. (Bohn) II. 145 As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
†5. One who sets up type, a compositor. Obs.
1634Harington Salernes Regiment Pref. 4 The faults of the Composer and Correcter shall neyther be excused nor accused by mee. 1637Laud Let. in Hist. Chancellorsh. Oxf., The procuring of a sufficient composer, and corrector, for the Eastern languages. 1708–15Kersey Compositor, a Printer's Composer, that sets the Matter.
6. A person or thing that adjusts, settles, tranquillizes, etc.
1649Hammond Serm. Matt. xi. 30 Wks. 1684 IV. 479 Seeking out those great composers of the soul. 1711Gay Rural Sports 11, Ye murm'ring streams..The sweet composers of the pensive soul. 1735R. James Canine Madness (1760) 156 [Musk] is a great composer, and excellent in convulsions. 1827Earl of Shaftesbury in Life (1886) I. ii. 72 Yesterday read ‘Watson's Apology’..an everlasting composer for busy Deists and wounded faith.
7. Comb., in appositive use, as (sense 3) composer-arranger, composer-conductor.
1955Keepnews & Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz xxi. 278 Composer-arranger Jack Montrose. 1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene vi. 110 Bands can have a distinctive ‘sound’,..mixed by the composer-arranger from the colours of the individual musicians.
1938Times 30 Apr. 10/3 The acclamations which were offered to the composer-conductor. |