Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Music One who plays an instrument.
- noun An advocate or a student of instrumentalism.
- adjective Of, relating to, or advocating instrumentalism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, a performer upon an instrument: opposed to vocalist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a
vocalist .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who plays a
musical instrument , as distinguished from avocalist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
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Examples
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In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture.
WeLove-music 2010
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"You would think that science and technology were the only things that are important," he said, adding that this government and its predecessor were "instrumentalist".
David Willetts backs fees cap to stop Oxbridge subsidising the rest Jessica Shepherd 2010
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These are "instrumentalist" theories, which claim that ideas arise from elite manipulation of the public: elites propagate certain ideas they believe will advance their interests, even if this produces an unintended negative outcome.
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Williams — from the 'instrumentalist' Aristotelian who reduces ethics to what Grice would have called entirely 'natural meanings' (p. 180 n. 2).
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He calls this an "instrumentalist" view, which "replaces the notion of Truth with the notion of viability."
"pipe more important than contents" revisited Bill Kerr 2007
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Secondly, a more "instrumentalist" consideration: It is highly likely that any open expression of sympathy by our president for the pro-Musavi side would backfire.
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Most single voiced instrumentalist are pretty good sight readers, it is the pianist that usually has the problem.
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MoondogAvant street-sound composer and multi-instrumentalist Moondog a.k.a.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 159 Phil Ramone 2011
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The multi-instrumentalist guitar, bass, piano, drums and vocalist has issued nearly a dozen releases to date.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 159 Phil Ramone 2011
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He's swinging to a hard- driving beat here, big-band-era style, and showing that he is a major jazz vocalist-instrumentalist to compete with his namesakes, Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan.
Both Leading Man and Comic Relief Will Friedwald 2011
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