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单词 instrumentalist
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instrumentalistn.adj.

Brit. /ˌɪnstrᵿˈmɛntl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛn(t)ləst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: instrumental adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < instrumental adj. + -ist suffix. Compare earlier instrumentist n., and also earlier instrumental n. 3b.In sense 1a perhaps after German Instrumentalist (1728 or earlier in this sense). With sense 2 compare earlier anti-instrumentalist (1841 or earlier). In sense 3 after instrumentalism n. 2.
1.
a. A musician (esp. a professional performer) who plays an instrument, as opposed to a singer.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > [noun]
player?c1450
sounder1591
instrumentist1609
twire-pipea1625
tweedle-dee1725
tweedle-dum1725
instrumental1798
instrumentalist1814
tudeler1814
1814 Repository of Arts Feb. 69/2 Mozart's music required better singers and instrumentalists than had hitherto been sufficient.
1858 H. Spencer Ess. 1st Ser. i. 23 Uniting the now separate offices of poet, composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
1871 Athenæum 2 Dec. 727 This body of vocalists and instrumentalists.
1901 Weekly Irish Times 12 Jan. 3/2 An ideal concert orchestra..consisting of 121 instrumentalists against 40 sopranos.., 40 tenors, and 40 basses.
1957 C. P. Brand Italy & Eng. Romantics iii. xii. 179 The majority of Italian singers and instrumentalists were highly respected.
2010 Financial Times 17 Dec. 17/4 This young group of singers and instrumentalists performed with both insight and esprit.
b. A composer of instrumental music. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music
fuguist1789
symphonist1789
melodist1826
threnodist1827
instrumentalist1838
melophonist1847
polyphonist1864
musical dramatist1866
operettist1867
tone poet1874
orchestrator1875
French Impressionist1876
monodist1888
romantic1892
neoclassicist1899
orchestralist1899
variationist1900
mensuralist1901
tone-painter1903
impressionist1908
pre-Romantic1918
phrase-maker1924
polytonalist1925
atonalist1929
dodecaphonist1953
serialist1954
twelve-toner1955
miniaturist1962
minimalist1969
tonalist1982
1838 Musical World 23 Feb. 119 His reputation as an instrumentalist was..confirmed by his first symphony.
1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 572/1 The age in which he [sc. Beethoven] lived produced more than one instrumentalist of the highest order.
1963 R. Winston & C. Winston tr. H. E. Jacob F. Mendelssohn & his Times (U.S. ed.) ii. 94 The romantic instrumentalist who..had gone almost further than Beethoven, Weber and Schubert in exploring the potentialities of the instruments.
2001 tr. A. Wendt in W. M. Senner et al. Crit. Reception Beethoven's Compositions II. 196 The great instrumentalist is not at the same time a composer of song.
2. An advocate of the use of instrumental music in public worship. Now historical and rare.
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1856 S. J. Moore Zion's Service of Song 184 To this the instrumentalists reply—..True, for centuries the Church did not employ the organ... That instrumental music, for the improvement of the service of praise, was resumed by the Church..is to be commended.
1884 J. Harper in P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1961/1 An injunction is more than a permission, which is all for which most instrumentalists contend.
1889 Belfast News-Let. 21 June 7/4 The Antipodes in Church and State—Whigs and Tories, instrumentalists and anti-instrumentalists.
1964 W. E. Tucker J. H. Garrison & Disciples of Christ x. 194 The anti-instrumentalists insisted that..the organ was not authorized [by the New Testament]... Instrumentalists replied that the church could not legislate where the New Testament was silent.
3. Philosophy. An advocate or adherent of instrumentalism (instrumentalism n. 2). Also as adj.: of or relating to instrumentalism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > pragmatism > [noun] > utilitarianism > branches of utilitarianism > followers of
Benthamite1826
philosophical radical1834
philosophic radical1834
Millite1865
instrumentalist1904
Millian1950
1904 S. F. MacLennan in Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 410 The instrumentalists have made and maintained it [sc. a distinction between the psychological and the metaphysical viewpoints].
1909 Philos. Rev. 18 397 From the instrumentalist standpoint, the inquiry, What is reality? appears..futile.
1940 B. Russell Inq. into Meaning & Truth viii. 154 There are some schools of philosophy—notably the Hegelians and the instrumentalists—which deny the distinction between data and inferences altogether.
1965 J. D. North Measure of Universe App. 421 It would be misleading to describe the views represented in this book as ‘pragmatist’ or ‘instrumentalist’.
2011 Philos. Sci. 78 1201 The instrumentalist need not deny that we are acquainted with some things by means other than direct personal experience.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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