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musician Definition

mu·si·cian (myo̵̅o̅ zis̸h′ən)

noun

a person skilled in music; esp., a professional performer, composer, or conductor of music

Etymology: ME < MFr musicien

musician Related Forms
mu·si′·cianly adjective mu·si′·cian·ship′ noun
musician Synonyms

musician

n.

player, performer, composer; see artist 1, genius 2.

Musicians include: singer, vocalist, director, conductor, teacher, instrumentalist, soloist, soprano, first soprano, second soprano, alto, contralto, tenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso profundo, coloratura soprano, mezzosoprano, folk singer; guitarist, guitar player, bassist, bass player, keyboardist, percussionist, organist, drummer, pianist, flautist, flutist, violinist, cellist; jazzman, blues man, rocker, torch singer.

musician Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • accomplish: But it is not enough for us to produce highly accomplished musicians.
  • improvise: It utilizes repetition in the manner of an improvising jazz musician.
  • bud: But what do Bach and Tchaikovsky mean to the budding musicians of today?
  • invite: BK to investigate possibilities for inviting a musician to play.

Converse of subject

  • accompany: The concert and demonstration was given to Years 7, 8 and 9 accompanied by musicians from all other parts of the school.

Adjective modifier

  • talented: Cracking Music is a booking agency for some of the most talented musicians.
  • accomplished: The band will be led by Clive Lewis who is an accomplished musician.
  • gifted: Bizet was one of the most profoundly gifted musicians of the 19th Century.
  • amateur: The East Anglian Traditional Music Trust with local amateur musicians from the Musical Roots Project.
  • classical: Such are the surroundings, it's almost like waiting for classical musicians to appear.
  • orchestral: The best edition of a necessary score for any orchestral musician.

Modifies a noun

  • herselfthe: Cruise sails from the musicians herselfthe of touring an fisheries in the.

Noun used with modifier

  • jazz: Ronnie Scott's How do you get a jazz musician to make a million quid, the joke goes.
  • freelance: I am now a freelance musician with a number of varied musical interests.
  • chamber: Performing as a soloist and chamber musician his work takes him to many parts of the world.
  • folk: They made their comments after an American folk musician was told to pack her guitar by a street warden outside Camden Town Tube station.
  • Gypsy: Emil apprenticed for a few years under the Gypsy musicians in the village.
  • guest: As executive producer of the album, Paul Rutter brings in the worlds finest guest musicians, to star on the crafted songs.

Preposition: of

  • caliber: Touring overseas musicians of outstanding caliber is also an integral part of its promotional work.

Preposition: with

  • diploma: London Employment Wanted Early music: Hello, I am a musician with a soloist diploma in v. .
musician Quotes

It is this tendency to play with manic enthusiasm on every possible occasion that distinguishes the amateur jazz musician from the professional, often to the public detriment of the latter, who are regarded as snootyand unfriendly.

—Lyttelton, Humphrey Richard Adeane

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows and senses in the universe.

—Coltrane,John

Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.

—Butler, Samuel

A rather bitter Britishmusicianonceremarked sourly toa friend of mine: 'Oh, all she knows about music she learned in bed with musicians.' To that, I can only add, what better place to learn?

—Wilmer,Val(erie)

   I have always wanted to develop a way of writing that was irrevocably black. I don't have the resources of a musician but I thought that if it was truly black literature, it would not be black because Iwas, it would notevenbe black because of its subject matter. It would be something intrinsic, indigenous, something in the way it was put togetheröthe sentences, the structure, texture and toneöso that anyone who read it would realize.

—Morrison,Toni Chloe Anthony ne¤  e Wofford

You could be a great musician, an innovative and important artist, but nobodycared if youdidn't makethe white people who were in control some money.

—Davis, Miles Dewey, III