as in songwriter
a person who writes popular musical compositions for the human voice
a British tunesmith whose songs were equally popular in America
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Recent Examples of tunesmith
From the November 1946 issue: Handel In all of his work, Handel was among the greatest, most irresistible of tunesmiths.
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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
His star rose significantly, his personal life blossomed, too, and now he’s widely regarded as his era’s greatest tunesmith.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
In-house tunesmith Daringer carries the LP with beats that seem half-finished but never feel that way, many without drums at all.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
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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
His star rose significantly, his personal life blossomed, too, and now he’s widely regarded as his era’s greatest tunesmith.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
In-house tunesmith Daringer carries the LP with beats that seem half-finished but never feel that way, many without drums at all.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tunesmith
Noun
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At the time, top Western songwriters prioritized Japan, the world’s second-largest music market.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2025
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Ortiz may have had his major breakthrough as a songwriter, but his dream was always to be a performing artist.—
Griselda Flores,
Billboard,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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His own composer as usual, Amenabar here tends to underline the film’s shortcomings, rather than elevate its idiosyncrasies with an original score that’s too conventional by half.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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Working within restricted space, Lanthimos felt the need to go big with the filmmaking, both with supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Johnnie Burn’s sound design and composer Jerskin Fendrix’s music, which is by far the biggest score in the score-adverse director’s career.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Tunesmith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tunesmith. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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