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a person who writes popular musical compositions for the human voice he's both a singer and a songwriter

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Recent Examples of songwriter Today, much of Audemars Piguet’s catalog is still based upon the Royal Oak platform: There are ultra-thin time-and-date versions, ultra-complicated iterations in futuristic materials, ladies’ versions—even a perpetual calendar version designed by star guitarist and songwriter John Mayer. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 26 Dec. 2024 And Answers For Saturday, December 21 As for the music, award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the songs for the film, while Dave Metzger composed the original score. Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024 This Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25, the 71-year-old singer and songwriter shared a photo to Facebook, in which he is seen wearing a Santa hat on the couch, joined by four of his family members. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024 The early Village embodied a moment when songwriters would literally watch the nightly news or read a newspaper and then write a song about it — a song that could easily end up on an LP from a major label. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for songwriter 
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Noun
  • Johann Sebastian Bach's works were an ideal choice given the highly mathematical structure, plus the composer was so prolific, across so many very different kinds of musical compositions—preludes, fugues, chorales, toccatas, concertos, suites, and cantatas—as to allow for useful comparisons.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
  • First recordings of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin Gershwin revolutionized American music and ushered in the Jazz Age, but the 25-year-old composer wrote his groundbreaking rhapsody rather hastily.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The musicians, especially but not exclusively Jerry Garcia, whose death in 1995 only technically ended the Dead, prove remarkably articulate about the why and wherefore of their music and the group mind that created it.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Osceola Community Orchestra: The Osceola Community Orchestra welcomes new musicians high school age and older.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024
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  • Maybe Happy Ending, written by American composer Will Aronson and South Korean lyricist Hue Park, is a charming, sweet, visually dazzling show, blending throwback, screwball comedy with technically elaborate, futuristic production design.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Rapsody – Please Don’t Cry Rapsody has rightly been hailed as one of the best lyricists of her generation since her breakout appearance on Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2024
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  • From the November 1946 issue: Handel In all of his work, Handel was among the greatest, most irresistible of tunesmiths.
    Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Anna’s debut album, Breakup Over Breakfast, will be released July 19 on Warner Music Nashville, and seems aimed to heightening Anna’s promise as a towering, soul-baring tunesmith.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 July 2024

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“Songwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songwriter. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.

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