musician

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Musicians
accompanist
accordionist
arranger
artist
bandleader
concertmaster
cornetist
crossover
drum major
drummer
mandolinist
mariachi
mastersinger
minstrel
multi-instrumentalist
session musician
sideman
sight-reader
soloist
tenorist

Examples of instrumentalist

instrumentalist
Even so, out of a possible 77 instrumentalists and 93 pupils who enjoyed singing, the subject had only attracted 22 potential candidates.
And, inevitably, certain movements set aside for solo dancers were played by a solo instrumentalist with light orchestral accompaniment.
The instrumentalists are assigned significant roles, but the key protagonist is the female singer, who has to observe more than 20 instructions involving 'advanced' techniques.
The twenty-nine instrumentalists listed as accompanying the serenade were all members of die king's musical establishment.
This in turn causes a new response in the hall acoustics and the instrumentalists, and so forth.
On a traditional interpretation of that framework, characterized by instrumentalist, self-interested voting, the arguments for representation are typically weak and second-best in nature.
One would expect such models of potential for individuality to apply to all expert instrumentalists, although with a variable hierarchy of technical considerations.
They assert, instead, an instrumentalist interpretation; law, they insist, did not "develop" but rather was developed in order to serve the interests of emerging capital.
Even so, his fundamental criticism of ecological economics, as of environmental economics, is that it is instrumentalist.
Because the chapters focus on the 'headliners' of the recordings, the instrumentalists who accompany singers are rarely discussed.
His operas require more technique than most instrumentalists of the time possessed.
However, too much has been made of how daring her decision was to promote public concerts and to appear in them as an instrumentalist.
Sadly, this seems to be an increasing problem amongst instrumentalists, commonly causing pain and loss of coordination.
The anachronistic concept of 'full-time' work for instrumentalists, and probably other functionaries as well, may have to be abandoned.
A young person aspiring for a professional career in music is likely to hear advice like this from instrumentalists and instrumental teachers.
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