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
gifted musician/artist/teacher etc
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She was an extremely gifted poet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
amateur
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The thing that attracted me was that it wasn't your average plonk, plonk, three cord amateur musician .
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Perky was an enthusiastic amateur musician who played several instruments, his favorite being the violin.
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Courses would have elements which applied to both professional and to amateur musicians .
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His father, also called Thomas, was a stonemason, builder and enthusiastic amateur musician .
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My father played the clarinet in the orchestra; he was a good amateur musician .
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Otherwise, schemes for producing well-trained professional and amateur musicians will meet with little success.
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Every year amateur rock musicians compete in the Battle of the Bands competition.
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He was also an amateur musician who played the piano badly but with passion.
black
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Moira seemed to think that since I wasn't a black , working-class musician then I could have nothing to offer Jett.
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He helped start the Clef Club in 1910, a giant booking agency and union for black musicians .
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The Clef Club was key in providing jobs and dignity for many exploited black musicians .
classical
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Did those scribes care for their hands, tend their fingers, in the way classical musicians are reputed to?
fine
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She was a valued Trainer, and a fine musician .
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The series focuses on some of the world's finest musicians playing an interesting classical and contemporary repertoire.
good
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Just over an hour of marvellously invigorating fiddling from some of the best traditional musicians in Ireland.
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Like well-toned athletes and good musicians , economies work best when they are flexible and limber, rather than brittle and stiff.
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My father played the clarinet in the orchestra; he was a good amateur musician .
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All roads lead to Seattle for many computer programmers and for the best rock musicians of a certain style.
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And I told you, he is a good musician .
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He is a good musician , intelligent, with a wide range of interests.
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These are good musicians , they also know that they play the adagio too quickly.
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I would never find a better musician , his contribution to Re:Joyce was unquantifiable.
great
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And he's a great musician - lead guitar.
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A great musician and much admired teacher, Nikolayeva knew what she was talking about.
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He was just a great , great musician .
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And don't forget Charlie, dear Charlie, the great musician .
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No, he was Bob Marley, a great musician .
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The late John Coltrane was the most restless of great jazz musicians .
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They are popularly associated with Christmas, but have great value for musicians in all kinds of music.
local
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The programmes are wide-ranging and involve visiting and local professional musicians and students.
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The long established Opera Nova have a reputation for presenting good quality opera performance using local musicians in conjunction with some professional aid.
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Many stations still record local musicians in their own studios.
other
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We were always working, and other musicians used to come up to play with us.
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Could insight about the music of one disabled artist have some particular relevance to other disabled musicians ?
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Now the Singers contribute once a week, alternating with other musicians , and there is a much wider selection of music.
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Occasionally, two other musicians would accompany her, playing violin and flute.
professional
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He was a professional musician and the concourses of the Underground were his auditorium.
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Disturbance of musical abilities in professional musicians usually takes left-brain damage.
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The economic position has been put most forcefully by organizations representing professional musicians .
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The new accordion made him feel like a professional musician for the first time.
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Herschel started life as a professional musician , Hubble embarked upon the legal profession.
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He was a professional musician now, still sensitive and happy doing something he loved.
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Otherwise, schemes for producing well-trained professional and amateur musicians will meet with little success.
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The programmes are wide-ranging and involve visiting and local professional musicians and students.
rock
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Interesting rock stars, uninspiring rock musicians .
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Nugent is wild on stage but certainly not the stereotypical rock musician .
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All roads lead to Seattle for many computer programmers and for the best rock musicians of a certain style.
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Manasha matheson met rock musician Jerry Garcia at a Grateful Dead concert.
talented
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He sang in the choir, was a talented musician and a keen sportsman.
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After that he would go to medical school and become a doctor who was also a handsome and talented musician and athlete.
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The station had at its beck and call a talented pool of musicians , singers, actors, actresses and conductors.
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Sniegs, that talented but tormented musician , had been deported.
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My late cousin, Norman, who was a very talented musician , shared the same opinion.
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All four were talented musicians and difficult people, in varying degrees.
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Henry, a talented sculptor and musician from Faringdon in Oxfordshire fell from a top floor window.
young
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The younger musicians , influenced greatly by Miles Davis, liked their jazz, but liked it loud.
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Q.. What advice do you have for young musicians ?
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Sensitive guidance may be needed for young musicians .
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It all began in 1981, when he was still a young egghead musician on the junior faculty at Yale University.
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These activities gave him an enduring influence in the development of young musicians .
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Because of the deejays' visibility, young musicians also flocked to Gibson and company.
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What we try and do here is show young musicians how a major studio works.
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The young musician Diego Huerin has kept this same vision in mind in his new arrangement of La Pasión.
■ NOUN
church
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All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance.
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Whatever the reason for a refusal, the church musician has to abide by the publisher's decision.
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It is a distraction to other worshippers and detracts from the importance of church musicians .
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Furthermore, preparation of students to work as church musicians without regard to their religious convictions can lead to confusion or insincerity.
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The picture includes the provision made for amateur and professional, part-time and full-time church musicians .
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Those with a professional approach have provided structured courses for church musicians lasting a year or more.
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Also included in this chapter is a description of those areas of insurance which apply to church musicians and their instruments.
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This is significant for any analysis of the training of church musicians .
jazz
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In addition to a number of internationally recognised jazz musicians the Festival attracts a number of artists and attractions from around the region.
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But from the viewpoint of a bona fide jazz musician , it is not really jazz.
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I am delighted that an accomplished jazz musician should choose a tune of mine to improvise upon.
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When jazz musicians go to a club, the first place we go is the kitchen.
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Max is a jazz musician , a black cat with Negro features, who owns a talking saxophone, his Alto Ego.
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Before then, we are inclined to believe only hip jazz musicians and self-destructive beat poets did dope.
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Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1929, Kundera worked as a labourer and a jazz musician before turning to writing.
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By then Mike, though insecure in his ability to improvise, dreamed of being a jazz musician .
street
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Dozens of street musicians have been gathering in Cheltenham as part of the fringe festival.
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A street musician with a particularly lousy, one-note act?
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He liked listening to the street musicians who played at Covent Garden.
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Tourists snapped photos. Street musicians played.
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He remembered the street musician with his little monkey.
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She screams Read in studio Dozens of street musicians have been competing for the title of Britain's best busker.
■ VERB
lead
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As principal harpist here for the past 30 years, Harris has established herself as a leading musician .
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Already computers are beginning to produce music as good as leading jazz musicians .
pay
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Equally, what many parishes pay their musicians is barely sufficient to cover their expenses.
play
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It has been proposed that these instruments were played by extra musicians .
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When they played , the musicians and secondary singers seemed linked up with Rana Khan like nerves to a brain.
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Some of these programs play along with the musician to make practice easier and more entertaining.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
born leader/musician/teacher etc
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Because Karajan was a born teacher, he was always interested in young musicians.
musician/player/car etc of the year
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A former Car of the Year winner, it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here.
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All won national Player of the Year honors during their Bruins careers.
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Going up against league player of the year Mary Raskauskas, Thompson tallied 17 points and 10 rebounds.
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Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season, but they've let me have him for six months.
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On defense, Mutombo, the three-time defensive player of the year , hung around the lane to block and alter shots.
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Then came the news of Price, the two-time City 4-A Player of the Year .
travelling musician/circus/exhibition etc
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A Bradford Museums Service travelling exhibition.
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However, John Reynolds, the latest addition to this high-speed travelling circus, could be one of the surprise packets.
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The stables turned out to be remarkably solid structures for a travelling circus, made mostly of wood with canvas roofs.
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This year a travelling circus put up its tent and offered the public a horse-riding show.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a talented young musician
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Ellen is one of our most talented young musicians.
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The group is made up of local musicians who have been performing together for several years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In this century, the list has expanded dramatically to embrace scientists, aviators, musicians, artists, authors and entertainers.
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Like well-toned athletes and good musicians, economies work best when they are flexible and limber, rather than brittle and stiff.
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That's a pity, for the Czechs themselves are musicians of style and spirit.
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The musicians have to be full partners in the downsizing.
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The economic position has been put most forcefully by organizations representing professional musicians.
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Unfortunately, Edison was not himself a musician , and the technology he fathered was never used for mass-producing serious musical records.