Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that composes, especially a person who composes music.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which composes.
- noun One who composes musical pieces; a musical author.
- noun One who or that which quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference or reconciles antagonists.
- noun In printing, a compositor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music.
- noun One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
composes ; anauthor . - noun Especially, one who composes
music . - noun : One who, or that which, quiets or
calms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who composes music as a profession
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example, for a mail client which has one main window showing the mails and folders, and which can also have one or more windows for composing mails, the name for the folders window should be e.g. "mainwindow" and for the composer windows "composer#".
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Urwald 2009
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So, although there are nearly as many composers and sound designers working in theater as songwriters, to most directors, actors, and producers, the term composer means a person who writes musicals.
NewMusicBox 2010
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I may not know much, but I think I know a little bit about compositional practice — studying to be a composer is a lot of investigating how the old masters got from point A to point B, or even how they got to point A in the first place — and I can say that any attempt to generalize the way great works have come into being is a fool's errand.
Spark plugs and transmissions Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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On the balcony above sit five versatile musicians who provide occasional mood elevations to the action in composer Nigel Hess 'clever pseudo-Elizabethan score.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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On the balcony above sit five versatile musicians who provide occasional mood elevations to the action in composer Nigel Hess 'clever pseudo-Elizabethan score.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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Anyone who has ever seen the Underworld movies can recognize the sound a certain composer has.
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This singer, songwriter and composer is probably best known for his performance in the television series, The Partridge Family, with his step-mother, Shirley Jones.
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On the balcony above sit five versatile musicians who provide occasional mood elevations to the action in composer Nigel Hess 'clever pseudo-Elizabethan score.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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This time around, the legendary composer is searching for a "diamond in the rough" to play Nancy in his West End revival of Oliver!, based on the Dickens classic Oliver Twist.
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There's dreadful news from the symphony hallthe composer is dead!
The Composer Is Dead (Book & CD) by Lemony Snicket: Book summary 2010
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