lyricist

[ UK /lˈɪɹɪsˌɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪɹɪsɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who writes the words for songs
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How To Use lyricist In A Sentence

  • In the 1950s, axeman and lyricist Klaus Renft formed the Klaus Renft Combo, which channelled Berry, Haley, Pink Floyd, the Beatles and the Stones.
  • Over her 20-year career she has been visually original, a provocative stylist, an intelligent lyricist and a sublime melodist, but she has never been a ground-breaking musician.
  • Both the band's writers are fascinating lyricists.
  • It means he is still a vital lyricist, a mesmerising performer and a perplexing human being.
  • In their playwrights' note, the composer and lyricist team describe being on vacation in Portugal six years ago and reading about the longing, urban musical style known as fado and the legendary fadista Maria Severa Onofriana in a Lisbon city travel guide. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Complementing the overt philosophic cast of the last participle, for not yet "actualized" rather than merely not yet recognized, Wordsworth's verse, in and beyond the Intimations Ode, is often levitated on words as well as worlds that feel churning in a line without being fully conjured into print, fleeting evocations neither quite seized upon by the lyricist as yet nor brought to be in reading. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • The composers and lyricists are scarcely remembered today, but the music-hall song set the wheels of Tin Pan Alley in motion, established the practice of song plugging, and founded a new industry.
  • No lyricist has ever so articulately voiced the defiant, self-aware misery of adolescence.
  • His images created by the vivid description of desert life and earthly love scenes were never excelled by later lyricists.
  • As a lyricist, he still oscillates between occasional felicities and frequent triviality.
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