COMPOSER


Meaning of COMPOSER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

classical music/musician/composer etc

a leading classical violinist

a classical repertoire

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

classical

Today, the names of the famous classical composers are associated with particular piano builders.

We live in a time when people traverse lots of music, but in classical music the composer traverses larger musical structures.

Purcell, Vivaldi and Telemann were among his favourite classical composers .

contemporary

There is some evidence that contemporary composers are showing a renewed interest in the Church as a patron of the arts.

In the end, however, both new works were set to scores by contemporary composers .

None the less his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished.

favourite

Purcell, Vivaldi and Telemann were among his favourite classical composers .

great

Those who do this follow a precedent set by all great composers .

Ellington got a great fellow composer and arranger.

The choir of the church was so famous in the 17 and 18C that its music attracted many great composers .

And finally the Danube dances past Vienna, home of the waltz, great composers and superb cream cakes!

The parting between the two great composers was poignantly prescient.

It has inspired artists, poets and great composers for generations, and to this day few fail to leave enchanted.

This was in the days when we were both planning to be great composers .

other

During the Karajan years Mozart and Richard Strauss were not squeezed out, though the music of other composers was brought in.

It may be very simple and use ideas which other composers have also used.

Contrary wise, Beethoven and other composers wrote music both in 3/4 and 6/8 meant to go at very similar tempos.

young

The main beneficiaries of those expanded horizons and burgeoning creative confidence were just those younger composers who are now busy writing operas.

The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break.

The young composer at odds with his family, who want him to follow a less daring course.

Then, as the young composer experiments at his consoles and keyboards, taking on some meat, becoming stronger, deeper.

The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.

A few young composers spotted Magnard's singularity.

■ VERB

write

The repertoire includes traditional chants and much four-part harmony, written by composers within the Orthodox tradition.

The Mahler Piano Quartet is a very early work in one movement, written when the composer was only 16.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Amelia likes German composers, particularly Wagner.

Henry Purcell was one of the greatest English composers.

My favourite composer is Beethoven.

the composer Philip Glass

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether.

Human composers must envy the cat its ears.

I had no contacts that might be of use to a composer .

Nowadays record companies use impeccable accounting techniques, assisted by computers, to calculate the royalties for composers.

The composer requested a reproduction of a Hokusai print to be the cover design on the full orchestral score.

The composers now working there have brought no preconceptions or hidebound conventions.

Trumpet, composer . b. New Orleans. 13 March 1962.

When Leiber called Stoller, the composer was initially uncooperative.

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