(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.
Quintet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Quintette
Example Sentences:
(1) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
(2) In the English-speaking cinema, Gassman was at his best working with Robert Altman in films (not, it is true, among the director's finest) like A Wedding (1978) and Quintet (1979).
(3) The senior quintet would be reduced to, at best, squad roles.
(4) The quintet have given Hunt until Monday to respond.
(5) Nowhere, alas: instead the august broadsheet rock critic was confronted by a “parade of misfits”, horrified by the sound of experimental jazz quintet Polar Bear “tootling” on something he referred to as “a coronet”.
(6) Who couldn't be stirred by the gleeful noir of the opening theme , nor by the Boccherini Minuet that the film makes famous again (their cover story is they're an amateur string quintet)?
(7) Currently the focus of all the fuss is Room on Fire, the second album by New York quintet the Strokes.
(8) In Mackendrick's film, Guinness heads a gang disguised as a string quintet planning a heist from the home of an innocent old lady.
(9) The variation in longevity among quintets was large and the expression of genetic longevity interacted with the treatments.
(10) The only reason for Peter’s investment in Salford City is aligned with his personal philanthropic interest in youth development,” the spokesperson said, “and of course his support for the members of the class of 92.” The former United quintet said when announcing the deal they had known Lim for 10 years – initially this was through his ownership of United’s Red Cafe Asian franchise.
(11) Lawyers for the medical quintet challenging him in the high court claim that the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, in which the then health secretary Andrew Lansley set out to limit the health secretary’s power over the NHS, mean that Hunt was exceeding his powers by deciding on 11 February to impose the contract after two months of talks with the British Medical Association failed.
(12) The quintet of leg pain, weakness, edema, rectal mass, and hydronephrosis suggests plexopathy due to cancer.
(13) (Tata is shortly to retire but says at 75 his life's work won't be done, a sentiment of which the Britannia Unchained quintet would doubtless approve.)
(14) The low frequency shift of the quartet (0.31 ppm) and the quintet (0.62 ppm) from the triplet correlated with an increase in the number of 19F-ions in each complex.
(15) Alongside Corbyn and Watson’s own election, the quintet now at the top of the party is entirely male.
(16) I think all of our strikers need to be challenged,” said Hodgson, whose decision to bring a quintet of forwards to the finals already appears justified.
(17) After one show in their local neighbourhood, Este and Danielle were invited to be a part of a pop quintet called the Valli Girls .
(18) All have negative quadrupole interaction, and both this and the magnetic anisotropy imply that the orbital of the odd electron is prolate in the ground quintet, with little unquenched orbital angular momentum.
(19) It's even better when his friends arrive to rehearse for their amateur string quintet.
(20) This mixed bill features two new creations: a trio by rising talent Alexander Whitley set to Adès’s Piano Quintet, and an epically scaled response to his Polaris by the magnificent Crystal Pite.