melodizer

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English

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Etymology

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From melodize +‎ -er.

Noun

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melodizer (plural melodizers)

  1. One who melodizes.
    • 1880, The Musical Standard:
      The melodizer revels in flute and cremona stops, occasionally varied by trumpet and vox humana, and thus while one hand performs the customary one-two-three of the waltz, the other gives solos and runs, until it sinks away, probably with a final trill on the piccolo, and the player stands up in time to show that the wicked man has at last turned away from the sin that he was committing.
    • 1890, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers:
      O wonder-working Queen! Romance, Immortal mother of the world that seems, Thy work alone is safe from time and chance, O golden melodizer of sweet dreams!
    • 2014, Silas Olaoyin Abayomi, The Watchnight Songs, page 1491864559:
      Our erstwhile arranger - melodizer and matchmaker succeeded in brainwashing the couple, from his cantata and motet marriage - the home schooling became an oft-repeated roulade passage which neither party pulls out he unendingly charged.

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