noun
definition
One who composes; an author.
definition
One who, or that which, quiets or calms.
Examples of composers in a Sentence
The genius of the Disney composers and lyricists is undisputed.
He was one of the earliest composers for stringed instruments, and Kircher has given one specimen of this class of his works in the Musurgia.
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about Italian composers.
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Four of the music cabinets housed Jackson's works, the remaining two held other composers' music.
This was in many cases true, and it is equally true that Mozart and Haydn often had no scruple in following the customs of very bad composers.
Although he wrote poetry, also an anthology of verses on the monasteries of Mesopotamia and Egypt, and a genealogical work, his fame rests upon his Book of Songs (Kitab ul-Aghani), which gives an account of the chief Arabian songs, ancient and modern, with the stories of the composers and singers.
Medieval composers, however, regarded the Ionian mode as the least perfect of the series and placed it last in order.
Among contemporary composers in 1921 the foremost were Foerster, Novak, Ostrcil, and Suk; and as executants Sev ik, Kubelik and Ondricek.
Now, from the outset of his Rhetoric Aristotle himself claims to be the first to distinguish between artificial evidences from arguments and other evidences which he regards as mere additions; and he complains that the composers of arts of speaking had neglected the former for the latter.
Side by side with the Minorites, the spokesmen of the specifically political opposition to the papacy were the Parisian professors, Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun, the composers of the " Defender of the Peace " (defensor pacis).
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about German composers.
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about opera composers.
Now the texts of the Gloria and Credo were more voluminous than any others which 16th-century composers attempted to handle in a continuous scheme.
The practical limits of the church service made it impossible to break them up by setting each clause to a separate movement, a method by which 16th-century music composers contrived to set psalms and other long texts to compositions lasting an hour or longer.
Moreover, as being inseparably associated with the highest act of worship, it inspired composers in direct proportion to their piety and depth of mind.
The next definite stage in the musical history of the Mass was attained by the Neapolitan composers who were first to reach musical coherence after the monodic revolution at the beginning of the 17th century.
Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about English composers.
His ambition to found a school of composers as well as a school of pianists met with complete success on the one hand and partial failure on the other.
We meet with, during the present century, a considerable number of names of poets and dramatists, no doubt very minor, as also painters, sculptors and musical composers.
His father, Christian Ignatius Latrobe (1758-1836), a musician of some note, did good service in the direction of popularizing classical music in England by his Selection of Sacred Music from the Works of the most Eminent Composers of Germany and Italy (6 vols., 1806-1825).
The priests, who were the composers and repositories of these texts, succeeded in giving them a perfectly general form.
His greatest opera, Boris Godounov, based on Pushkin's drama, was produced in St Petersburg in 1874, and on it his reputation stands as one of the finest creative composers in the ranks of the modern Russian school.
From what I've read and heard, Bach is now considered somewhat atypical as far as Baroque composers go.
Gorczycki followed several composers whom we have met on previous occasions in becoming choirmaster of Wawel Cathedral in 1698.
These simply colossal works were a source of inspiration and sometimes intimidation to later composers.
Britain is more famous for pop music than it is for classical composers or jazz musicians.
Petr Eben is one of the foremost composers from the Czech Republic.
But Schuman's remarks would be echoed by many contemporary composers for several reasons.
Easy access is provided to useful details about a large number of mainly European and American twentieth-century composers.
They also far exceed the dramatic scope and theatrical flare of all Baroque opera composers, including even Monteverdi.
Fantasia of Four Parts, the final movement takes its title from the string fantasia of Four Parts, the final movement takes its title from the string fantasias of English composers such as Gibbons and Purcell.
Included are some of the foremost electronic composers in the world making music for two of the foremost electronic composers in the world making music for two of the foremost groups in the Natural Art world.
Collections include autograph manuscripts of composers from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
Renaissance polyphony plays an important role and includes motets by a range of European composers.
In particular, the group included an unusually large quotient of female composers.
Now, there is a unique opportunity for composers to apply to the NYO to join the Composers Class which runs alongside orchestral rehearsals.
By his early twenties he was one of the most highly reputed of contemporary composers.
For these composers, music remained a deeply sensual experience.
In no other period of musical history have composers so brilliantly captured such glorious choral sonority and musical color as in the Spanish Renaissance.
It certainly makes the next generation of composers look positively staid.
And, moreover, those composers who have done most to realize this new nature (as Wagner has done for the brass instruments) have also retained, to an extent unsuspected by their imitators, the definite character which the instrument had in its earlier form.
Modern composers have often produced their most characteristic orchestral effects with fewer contrasting elements than Bach uses in his Trauer-Ode, in the pastoral symphony in his Christmas Oratorio, in the first chorus of the cantata Liebster Gott, wann werd' ich sterben, and in many other cases; but the modern instrumental effects are as far outside Bach's scope as a long passage of preparation on the dominant leading to the return of a first subject is beyond the scope of a gigue in a suite.
The Rhine-daughters' exultant cry of " Rhine-gold " is there tortured in an extremely remote modulation at the end of a very sinister transformation of the theme; and the orchestration, with its lurid but smothered brass instruments, its penetrating low reed tones and its weird drum-roll beaten on a suspended cymbal, is more awe-inspiring than anything dreamed of by the cleverest of those composers who do not create intellectual causes for their effects.
Most of his reforms have since been intelligently carried out as normal principles in more arts than one; but, shocking as the statement may seem to loth-century orthodoxy, Wagnerian harmony is a universe as yet unexplored, except by the few composers who are so independent of its bewildering effect on the generation that grew up with it, that they can use Wagner's resources as discreetly as he used them himself.
This Agricola was a pupil of Bach, and a fine organist and clever writer on music, especially on operatic style, the problems of which were beginning to be raised by French writers and composers in preparation for the work of Gluck.
It is amusing to read in one of the magazines of 1895 that Miss Keller "has a just and intelligent appreciation of different composers from having literally felt their music, Schumann being her favourite."
Perhaps the two composers intended them for use by the recusant Catholic community.
Most composers use a dedicated computer to run GigaStudio, dedicating all of the power of one system to running their sampling workstation.
Dover scores of string quartets and symphonies by all three composers are readily available and fairly inexpensive.