as in composers
a person who writes musical compositions
a melodist whose music is not likely to be very accessible to the casual listener
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Noun
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To be sure, the two composers had little in common, beyond being born in 1935.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025 -
The film had already landed distribution from Netflix when co-chief Ted Sarandos agreed to screen it at last year’s fest, where composers Clément Ducol and Camille led a special concert.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Season Two was filmed after the musicians completed their military service in South Korea.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
5 Nov. 2025
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And in the early 1970s, two of the most famous musicians in the world learned about a lot of it from a TV in their cozy, two-bedroom love nest in New York City’s West Village.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Melodists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodists. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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