musician [performance of music.]

Roget category 416

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#416. Musician [Performance of Music.]

noun

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^†.

verb

play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle — strike the lyre, beat the drum — blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn — doodle — grind the organ — touch the guitar etc. (instruments) 417 — thrum, strum, beat time.
execute, perform — accompany — sing a second, play a second — compose, set to music, arrange.
sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle — sol-fa^† — intone.
have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.

adjective

playing etc. v. — musical.

adverb

adagio, andante etc. (music) 415.

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