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Definition: Composer |
ComposerNoun1. Composes music as a profession. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "composer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
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Occupations | Operates photocomposing machine to repeat designs on film for transfer to sensitized copper rollers used in printing such products as wallpaper and oilcloth: Sketches design layout on worksheet according to sequence in which design is to be repeated around roller. Computes machine setting required to repeat design on film as laid out on worksheet, using standard formulas and tables. Mounts positive print on negative frame, aligning centerline on print with centerline on frame, and tapes print in position. Masks area around print with black paper. Centers film on backboard of machine and tapes film in position. Lifts backboard against negative frame and locks in position. Moves negative frame in position for exposing film to first repeat of design, following computations on worksheet. Starts compressor that creates vacuum between negative frame and backboard, drawing backboard against negative frame. Exposes film to light through positive print for specified time, transferring image from print to film. Repeats process until design has been repeated along vertical and horizontal plane of film a specified number of times. Removes exposed film from machine and processes film through series of chemical baths to develop, fix, and rinse film. Examines developed film for exposure errors and misalignment of repeated designs. Agitates film in chemical solution to etch out overexposed film. Discards unusable film. Hangs developed film on line to dry. (references) |
| Writes musical compositions: Creates musical ideas, using knowledge of harmonic, rhythmic, melodic, and tonal structure and other elements of music theory, such as instrumental and vocal capabilities. Creates original musical form or writes within circumscribed musical form, such as sonata, symphony, or opera. Transcribes ideas into musical notation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Composer |
| Specialty definitions using "composer": Accidentals ♦ composing-machine operator, CORE-COMPOSER FEEDER, CORE-COMPOSER-MACHINE TENDER ♦ DIRECTOR, MUSIC ♦ Franz Lisp, Frog ♦ MAGNETIC-TAPE-COMPOSER OPERATOR, Michael Angelo, music department head, musical director ♦ spread spectrum communications ♦ tenderizer tender. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Composer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (compose, comprise, concoct, create, form, make up, put together, score, set type, typeset, write). |
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Screenplays | Oh, that was fun. Who was the composer on that? (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.) Your composer, of course. (This Island Earth; writing credit: Raymond F. Jones; Franklin Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don't Shoot the Composer (1966) Composer of Carmen George Bizet (1938) Harry Warren: America's Foremost Composer (1933) Fortunes of a Composer (1912) | |
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 | Philippa Schuyler, composer and pianist, three-quarter length portrait, seated at piano, facing right. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Famous french composer gives concert in Chicago. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Karama" a Japanese romance by (Vivian Grey), Mabel McKinley composer of "Anona" / / The Donalson Litho. Co., Newport, KY. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | F. Ray Comstock offers the delightful musical success, The school girl music by Leslie Stuart, composer of "Florodora" ; book by Henry Hamilton, author of "The Duchess of Dantzig" & Paul M. Potter, author of "Trilby.". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Hector Berlioz | Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has no time to write down. |
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Health | The great American folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, after suffering from HD for 13 years. (references) | |
Economic History | France | Duration: Copyrights are valid for 50 years after the death of the author, with two major exceptions: music copyrights are valid for seventy years after the death of the composer, and software copyrights are valid for 25 years after creation. (references) |
Romania | Despite strong Austrian, German, and especially French influence, many of Romania's great artists, such as the painter Nicolae Grigorescu, the poet Mihai Eminescu, the composer George Enescu, and the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, drew their inspiration from Romanian folk traditions. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs. The first mention of frogs in profane literature is in Homer's narrative of the war between them and the mice. Skeptical persons have doubted Homer's authorship of the work, but the learned, ingenious and industrious Dr. Schliemann has set the question forever at rest by uncovering the bones of the slain frogs. One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them fricasees, remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed. The frog is a diligent songster, having a good voice but no ear. The libretto of his favorite opera, as written by Aristophanes, is brief, simple and effective -- "brekekex-koax"; the music is apparently by that eminent composer, Richard Wagner. Horses have a frog in each hoof -- a thoughtful provision of nature, enabling them to shine in a hurdle race. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | With God as your composer, Tyrone, your music will be the music of angels. |
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| "Composer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.15% of the time. "Composer" is used about 942 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.15% | 934 | 7,737 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.85% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 942 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "composer": line composer. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "composer": composer-conductors, composer-figure, composer-in-residence, composer-movie, composer-musicians, composer-performer, composer-producer. | |
Ending with "composer": craftsman-composer, fellow-composer, guess-the-composer, pianist-composer, poet-composer, singer-composer. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
ringtone composer | 1,341 | composer gustav | 116 |
composer | 947 | nokia composer ring tone | 110 |
nokia ringtone composer | 619 | blake composer | 92 |
free nokia ringtone composer | 547 | nokia composer tone | 84 |
music composer | 543 | famous composer | 78 |
free composer ringtone | 410 | composer satie | 71 |
nokia composer | 374 | composer watermill | 69 |
netscape composer | 276 | composer ringtone samsung | 69 |
french composer | 272 | midi composer | 69 |
composer musgrave | 231 | composer merry widow | 69 |
artaxerxes composer | 202 | composer free ring tone | 69 |
ring tone composer | 201 | composer copland | 67 |
classical composer | 183 | nokia 3390 composer ringtone | 66 |
composer planet | 170 | composer free nokia | 65 |
composer motorola ringtone | 157 | composer image | 65 |
noteworthy composer | 153 | microsoft image composer | 61 |
capitan composer el | 140 | composer oedipus | 61 |
britannia composer rule | 133 | composer motorola | 58 |
composer fiesque | 130 | 3390 composer free nokia ringtone | 57 |
composer film michael | 121 | composer melody | 56 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "composer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kompozitor (melodist, musician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملحن (melodist), مؤلف (author, compiler, established, formed, penman, set up, writer, written). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съчинител, композитор (musician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 作曲家. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skladatel, komponista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | komponist (author). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | componist (author), toondichter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | komponisto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مصنف (Writer), نویسنده (Author, Craftsman, Scrivener, Writer), سازنده (Constituent, Maker), سراینده (Singer, Vocalist, Warbler), اهنگ ساز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | säveltäjä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | compositeur (compositive, compositor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | komponist (writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνθέτησ, μελοποιόσ (melodist), μουσικοσυνθέτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מלחין. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zeneszerző. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penggubah (arranger, author), pencipta (authot, creator, maker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | compositore (compositor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 作曲者 , 作曲家 , コン"ュータ"語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compote, compress, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, confectionery, conference, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conventional, conveyor, conveyor system, convoy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さっきょくしゃ, さっきょくか, コンポーザー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 작곡자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cummeyder (chair, designer, fabricator, holder, inventor, supporter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kompositor, komponista. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omposercay kompozytor. (various references) compositor (compositor, maestro, musician, setter, songwriter, typesetter). (various references) compozitor. (various references) композитор (melodist). (various references) kompozitor (songwriter). (various references) compositor (compositor, melodist). (various references) tonsättare, kompositör (compositor, writer). (various references) yazar (author, contributor, man of letters, novelist, penman, scribe, writer), yaratıcı (architect, author, builder, creative, creator, father, fertile, imaginative, ingenious, inspired, inventive, inventor, originative, originator, pregnant, procreative, procreator, productive, worker), kompozitör, besteci (melodist). (various references) kompozitor (r), dьzьji (compiler). (various references) композитор (melodist, musician). (various references) người soạn nhạc người soạn, người sáng tác (inditer). (various references) cyfansoddwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | digestor. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "composer": composers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "composer": cocomposer, decomposer, noncomposer, photocomposer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "composer": cocomposers, decomposers, noncomposers, photocomposers. (additional references) | |
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"Composer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: compense, componer, composa, composee, composor, composury, compoter, compuse, Coposa, copose, Komrower. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "composer" (pronounced kumpō"zer) |
| 4 | -p ō" z er | disposer, poser. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-m-o-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: compose, coopers, oosperm, scooper. | |
-2 letters: comers, comose, compos, cooers, cooper, copers, corpse, mopers, morose, porose, proems, promos, romeos, roscoe, scroop. | |
-3 letters: ceros, comer, comes, compo, comps, cooer, coops, coper, copes, copse, cores, corms, corps, corse, crops, moors, moose, moper, mopes, mores, morse, omers, perms, poems, pomes, pores, poser, proem, promo, proms, prose, proso. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-m-o-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: composers, composure, recompose. | |
+2 letters: cocomposer, composures, compressor, compromise, copolymers, decomposer, ectomorphs, micropores, microscope, microspore, recomposed, recomposes. | |
+3 letters: cocomposers, compensator, competitors, compounders, compradores, compression, compressors, compromised, compromiser, compromises, copromoters, decomposers, mesomorphic, mesotrophic, microcopies, microphones, microprobes, microscopes, microspores, noncomposer, pleochroism, polychromes, recomposing, thermoscope. | |
+4 letters: chemotropism, chromophores, chromosphere, compensators, compensatory, comportments, compressions, compromisers, comptrollers, computerdoms, cosmographer, discomposure, macropterous, microscopies, mispronounce, mucoproteins, noncomposers, overcompress, phytochromes, pleochroisms, polychromies, proctodaeums, thermoscopes. | |
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