Someone who composes music as a profession.

Roget 416: musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel; bard etc. (poet) 597; [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer^†, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.    band, orchestral waits.    vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter^†, chauntress^†, songstress; cantatrice^†.    choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].    nightingale, philomel^†, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo^†, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire.    composer etc. 413.    performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization^†.    ... show more

Roget 413: melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme etc. (poetry) 597.    pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.    scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale^†, enharmonic scale^†; key, clef, chords.    modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution.    staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato^†, appoggiatura^†; acciaccatura^†.    note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note etc. (shrillness) 410; low note etc. 408; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth &c.; diatessaron^†.    breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.    tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic^†, mediant^†, dominant; submediant^†, subdominant^†; octave, tetrachord^†; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.    concord, harmony; emmeleia^†; unison, unisonance^†; chime, homophony; euphony, euphonism^†; tonality; consonance; consent; part.    [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-bass; counterpoint; faburden^†.    piece of music etc. 415 [Fr.]; composer, harmonist^†, contrapuntist (musician) 416.    ... show more

Roget 415: music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody etc. 413; aria, arietta^†; piece of music [Fr.], work, number, opus; sonata; rondo, rondeau [Fr.]; pastorale, cavatina^†, roulade^†, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon, quodlibet, serenade, notturno [It], dithyramb; opera, operetta; oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo [It], toccata, Vorspiel [G.].    instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra; concerted piece [Fr.], potpourri, capriccio.    vocal music, vocalism^†; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song etc. (poem) 597; canticle, canzonet^†, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo^†, solfeggio^†.    Lydian measures; slow music, slow movement; adagio etc. adv.; minuet; siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge etc. (lament) 839; pibroch^†; martial music, march; dance music; waltz etc. (dance) 840.    solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett^†; septett^†; part song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon^†, antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score; bourdon^†, drone, morceau^†, terzetto^†.    composer etc. 413; musician etc. 416.    ... show more

Dutch: maker, auteur, opsteller, componist, toondichter, toonzetter
Polish: kompozytor