(n.) One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) Notably, while the lead actors were all professionals, most of the cast members and musicians came from Providência itself.
(3) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(4) Leading figures including the musician Sting, business tycoon Sir Richard Branson and comedian Russell Brand have called for the possession of drugs to be decriminalised.
(5) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(6) I love it when musicians and their instruments sort of become an entity in themselves – you see it with Nina Simone and Ray Charles as well as Fats Domino.
(7) The study of otoacustic emissions evoked by a supraliminar stimulation in 183 musicians' ears including 68 AP showed that the echo was significantly greater in cases of AP than in cases of RP.
(8) The musicians' Leq values ranged from 79-99 dB A-weighted sound pressure level [dB(A)], with a mean of 89.9 dB(A).
(9) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
(10) He added that even many young musicians will have to be pensioned off at great expense.
(11) Over the past 50 years, composer Steve Reich’s music has had a powerful impact – not only on the contemporary classical world, but also on legions of rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and electronic musicians.
(12) 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."
(13) Also on Monday, rock musician and leading opponent of the cull Brian May issued a call for Paterson to resign, claiming he had failed to meet the public's expectation of "honesty and transparency".
(14) The American musician’s unexpected political intervention came in the wake of a much-touted but ultimately disappointing dialogue between government officials and student leaders.
(15) He brought these musicians from all over the place together.” Cochran was passionate about his studio and family, Kizerian said.
(16) It's broad enough to happily hold the startup raising money for a cool piece of tech, and the musician trying to fund a new EP.
(17) Unable to stand or swallow and forced to communicate through a computer, John Close, 54, a former musician, chose suicide in 2003 as his body succumbed to the remorseless grip of motor neurone disease.
(18) The author reviews the locomotor problems observed in performing musicians.
(19) So why stick with this very un-free job of being an orchestral musician?"
(20) Ted Nugent, the ultra-conservative rock musician, is also voting for Trump.
Pianist
Definition:
(n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects were right- or left-handed, males or females in experiments I and right-handed female typists, pianists, or controls in experiment II.
(2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(3) The grouping structure, which prescribes the location of major tempo changes, and the parabolic timing function, which represents a natural manner of executing such changes, seem to be the two major constraints under which pianists are operating.
(4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(5) Over the years he has played with famous musicians including John Williams, Robert Mitchell and Jools Holland, and been asked to jam with Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
(6) Alan M Dershowitz, who has represented heiress Patty Hearst and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is asking to represent the 81-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist in the Los Angeles county superior court.
(7) The new piece, Piano for Children, is scored for strings and John Constable, the Sinfonietta's star pianist.
(8) In a rare interview with Vanity Fair, the Oscar-winning director of Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and The Pianist said the arrest hit him harder than any incident since the murder of his wife Sharon Tate by the Manson family in 1969, as well as the subsequent media circus that followed.
(9) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
(10) She reads: “The look in his eyes was as much as we could take…” Pollock sighs: “Oh, that’s really desperate.” There was also the case of 10-year-old Curtis Elton, a talented pianist whose hands have been insured.
(11) I keep it at home in Atlanta,” the composer-pianist says, though the notion of home elicits an audible sigh.
(12) Since then, Polanski, a dual French and Polish citizen, has lived and worked in France and Switzerland and elsewhere, and accepted his 2002 best director Academy Award for The Pianist via satellite.
(13) Sonny Rollins, the original headliner, has had to pull out for health reasons, but the 10-day event comfortably maintains its world-class, star-packed stature with artists including the legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter with the BBC Concert Orchestra, pianist Brad Mehldau playing a rare synthesiser show, guitarist John McLaughlin and percussionist Zakir Hussain celebrating the pioneering east-west Shakti group, composer Carla Bley in a trio with bassist Steve Swallow and Britain's Andy Sheppard, and dozens more international stars, creative locals and newcomers appearing all over the city.
(14) Polanski's film credits include Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown and the Oscar-winning Holocaust drama The Pianist.
(15) In the first experiment, pianists and control subjects were given sequential tactile stimuli and were asked to report the simulated fingers and the order.
(16) 1990s: Colors, with Joachim Kuhn Facebook Twitter Pinterest From 1958 – when Coleman briefly played on the West Coast in Paul Bley’s Hillcrest Club band – to the mid-90s, the saxophonist steered clear of pianists.
(17) Dotted among Dilla's compositions are two pieces by minimalist French pianist and phonometrician (someone who measures sounds), Erik Satie.
(18) Like many occupying music's avant-garde edges, Sharp has a lot of time for the visionaries - people like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Sergey Kuryokhin, the Russian jazz pianist who, until his death in 1996, led the band Pop Mechanica.
(19) The fact that the man concerned carries a French passport and was responsible for Cul-de-Sac, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown , The Tenant, Tess and The Pianist might also have something to do with it.
(20) The author, a professional flutist and psychologist, interviewed four pianists noted for their sight-reading abilities.