(n.) One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-one instrumentalists and 51 opera singers of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, were examined, in order to study the frequency of symptoms from the musculoskeletal system and upper airways.
(2) The alveolar bone height was not significantly different for the two categories of instrumentalists in either anterior teeth or posterior teeth.
(3) Of these health professionals, 52.8% were nursing auxiliaries, 19.4%, nurses, 13.9%, nursing attendants, 5.5%, laboratory technicians, 2.8% surgery instrumentalist, 2.8% accountants and 2.8% nursing technicians.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest "I know the way that Ezra works on lyrics," says Rostam Batmanglij – multi-instrumentalist, producer, reputedly elusive interviewee.
(5) Male composers attained significantly lower mean testosterone values than male instrumentalists and male nonmusicians; female composers had significantly higher mean testosterone values than female instrumentalists and female nonmusicians.
(6) There is something hypocritical about this instrumentalist approach where the marketplace is to be the only judge.
(7) In a cross-sectional study with 117 adults and in an 8-yr longitudinal study with 120 adolescents, composers, instrumentalists, and nonmusicians of both sexes were compared by analyses of variance.
(8) Historically, the concern of wind instrumentalists has been diaphragm control and embouchure.
(9) He also won a Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music in 1982, nine Instrumentalist of the Year honours from the Country Music Association and innumerable Best Guitarist awards in magazines from Cash Box to Playboy.
(10) Musical composers, instrumentalists, and painters were compared with nonmusicians from a student and from an nonstudent population on testosterone levels in saliva.
(11) Singers had significantly more symptoms from mouth, lips or throat than instrumentalists, OR = 4.5 (1.7-11.5), P = 0.002.
(12) The relative participation of left- and right-hemisphere functions in verbal and spatial processing with musical composers, instrumentalists, painters, and non-musicians from student and junior high school populations was investigated.
(13) Watch Reflektor by Arcade Fire Across those nine years, much has changed about the band: members flitting in and out, the focus of their songwriting shifting to accommodate other talents — Butler's brother Will, multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry, and bassist Tim Kingsbury among them – and with each album a musical turn that has at times unsettled their devoted following.
(14) Male and female composers, instrumentalists, and painters did not differ in language lateralization.
(15) The background : Such is the frantic, busy nature of their sound, you instantly imagine Melt Yourself Down involving a lot of musicians because their songs, while sometimes indicative of beautiful gelling among the players, on other occasions suggest instrumentalists performing extracts from quite different pieces of music.
(16) There were 103 players (46%) of string instruments, 7 keyboard instrumentalists (32%), 44 players (19%) of wind instruments, and 6 percussionists (3%).
(17) Suppression of symptoms and improvement in instrumentalist's performance after beta blockade suggest that this modality would be of benefit for singers as well.
(18) Both male and female instrumentalists had a higher blood pressure.
(19) In the present study, we compare 34 singers and 48 wind instrumentalists with a control group of 31 string or percussion instrumentalists using a pulmonary questionnaire, measurements of inspiratory and expiratory pressures, and spirometry.
(20) It’s both a pro and a con of being a singer; audiences feel close and connected to you, and you can reach your listeners in a way that instrumentalists have to strive harder to do.
Vocalist
Definition:
(n.) A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
(2) It’s said to be a largely instrumental, ambient affair, though session vocalist Durga McBroom-Hudson piped up on social media recently to reveal that she had been in the studio with Gilmour last December and that there would be lead vocals on at least one track.
(3) It positioned Kelela as a significant new vocalist, her phrasing indebted to pop but somehow elegantly haunting.
(4) To recap, Beach House formed in 2004 when French-born Victoria, a theatre graduate, vocalist and organist, finished her studies and moved to Baltimore to pursue a music project with an old friend.
(5) Allen may not be one of the best vocalists around, but if she carries on being this engaging, hers might end up being one of the voices that cuts through.
(6) "Going from being a backing vocalist who learns someone else's material to teaching several people my material and being respectful of their ideas."
(7) By the end of the decade, Brian Wilson had left the band, as had vocalist Al Jardine, Carl had died of cancer, leaving Mike Love the sole original member, alongside Bruce Johnson, drafted in to replace Wilson after his mid-60s breakdown.
(8) He wanted a prominent female vocalist because "it's my mum speaking through me; a lot of my lyrics are written from a woman's point of view," but he also used her to achieve stark gender dissonance, for example when she sings "I'm a black man" on a thrillingly counterintuitive rock version of Public Enemy's Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos .
(9) The result is Aswan , named after the Egyptian city in which it was recorded, which includes six vocalists singing in 11 different languages, and performers from Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
(10) It is the author's opinion that vocalists are also significantly affected by TMD.
(11) In addition to Armisen, the other members of the 8G Band include Syd Butler, lead bassist of post-punk band Les Savy Fav, and Eli Janney, a keyboardist, bass player and vocalist of post-harcore band Girls Against Boys.
(12) She is an incredible vocalist, plays drums, guitar, writes songs, makes films, designs clothes – even has her own clothes label: #www.selfesteem.love .
(13) The 60-year-old vocalist was not the only British artist with cause to celebrate.
(14) And it appears that the band – consisting of founder, lyricist and bassist Steve Harris, 57, 56-year-old guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers, 55-year-old vocalist Bruce Dickinson and 61-year-old drummer Nicko McBrain – have done it in the traditional way, using old fashioned graft and relentless touring.
(15) THE SONG THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A VOCALIST Don't Turn Around by Aswad (1988) Aswad had other tracks but this was their best.
(16) Need U’s success was followed by albums from Rudimental and Disclosure, artists who blurred the roles of producer and live band while allowing for a constant carousel of guest vocalists.
(17) Griff Fender, best known as a vocalist for the 70s band The Darts, and dancer Laura Street have worked with Oily Cart for many years.
(18) Soon afterwards, he moved to London as vocalist with the Oscar Rabin band, but it did not work out - Manning missed Manchester and his girlfriend Vera, whom he was later to marry.
(19) The song, Africa Stop Ebola, features contributions from the Malian musicians Amadou & Mariam , Salif Keita , Oumou Sangaré and Kandia Kouyaté , the Guinean singers Mory Kante and Sia Tolno , the Ivorian reggae star Tiken Jah Fakoly , the Congolese vocalist Barbara Kanam and the Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi .
(20) Vocalist Durga McBroom-Hudson, who has toured with Gilmour and Pink Floyd, subsequently shared some further details.