noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
classical music/musician/composer etc
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a leading classical violinist
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a classical repertoire
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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Today, the names of the famous classical composers are associated with particular piano builders.
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We live in a time when people traverse lots of music, but in classical music the composer traverses larger musical structures.
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Purcell, Vivaldi and Telemann were among his favourite classical composers .
contemporary
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There is some evidence that contemporary composers are showing a renewed interest in the Church as a patron of the arts.
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In the end, however, both new works were set to scores by contemporary composers .
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None the less his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished.
favourite
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Purcell, Vivaldi and Telemann were among his favourite classical composers .
great
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Those who do this follow a precedent set by all great composers .
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Ellington got a great fellow composer and arranger.
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The choir of the church was so famous in the 17 and 18C that its music attracted many great composers .
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And finally the Danube dances past Vienna, home of the waltz, great composers and superb cream cakes!
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The parting between the two great composers was poignantly prescient.
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It has inspired artists, poets and great composers for generations, and to this day few fail to leave enchanted.
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This was in the days when we were both planning to be great composers .
other
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During the Karajan years Mozart and Richard Strauss were not squeezed out, though the music of other composers was brought in.
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It may be very simple and use ideas which other composers have also used.
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Contrary wise, Beethoven and other composers wrote music both in 3/4 and 6/8 meant to go at very similar tempos.
young
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The main beneficiaries of those expanded horizons and burgeoning creative confidence were just those younger composers who are now busy writing operas.
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The young composer practises his scales while waiting for a big break.
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The young composer at odds with his family, who want him to follow a less daring course.
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Then, as the young composer experiments at his consoles and keyboards, taking on some meat, becoming stronger, deeper.
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The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
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A few young composers spotted Magnard's singularity.
■ VERB
write
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The repertoire includes traditional chants and much four-part harmony, written by composers within the Orthodox tradition.
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The Mahler Piano Quartet is a very early work in one movement, written when the composer was only 16.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Amelia likes German composers, particularly Wagner.
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Henry Purcell was one of the greatest English composers.
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My favourite composer is Beethoven.
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the composer Philip Glass
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Enya as a composer drifts alone in uncharted ether.
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Human composers must envy the cat its ears.
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I had no contacts that might be of use to a composer .
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Nowadays record companies use impeccable accounting techniques, assisted by computers, to calculate the royalties for composers.
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The composer requested a reproduction of a Hokusai print to be the cover design on the full orchestral score.
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The composers now working there have brought no preconceptions or hidebound conventions.
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Trumpet, composer . b. New Orleans. 13 March 1962.
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When Leiber called Stoller, the composer was initially uncooperative.