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A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and definition The term is descended from Latin, compōnō; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Thomas Morley's 1597 A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music, where he says "Some wil be good descanters [...] and yet wil be but bad composers". "Composer" is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who work in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or 'singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularly in the tradition of popular music. In other contexts, the term 'composer' can refer to a literary writer, or more rarely and generally, someone who combines pieces into a whole.

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Notable quotes

“To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the composer and his audience. This love affair is a tripartite thing.”
— Samuel Adler, Quoted from an interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB, (1991)
“Recent IIPA reports cite rates of music piracy in excess of 90% in China, India, Mexico, and Brazil. Less and less of this traffic takes place on the street, as physical piracy shifts toward the narrower stock and higher margins of DVDs.”
— Joe Karaganis, "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies", (2011), p. 44
“Music makes things in our minds, but afterward most of them fade away. What remains? ...perhaps what we learn is not the music itself but a way of hearing it.”
— Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" ibid.
“[S]o far as music ever had a "meaning" beyond the immediate and exquisite value of the sound-pattern itself, its "meaning" must be simply an emotional attitude. It could never speak directly about the objective world, or "the nature of existence"; but it might create a complex emotional attitude which might be appropriate to some feature of the objective world, or to the universe as a whole.”
— Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (1944).
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer. Ancient Spanish Ballads.
“Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you'll enjoy the playing more.”
— Ravi Shankar tuning up before his performance on Sitar, Soundbite of "The Concert For Bangladesh"

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.

Overview

A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and definition The term is descended from Latin, compōnō; literally "one who puts together". The earliest use of the term in a musical context given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Thomas Morley's 1597 A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music, where he says "Some wil be good descanters [...] and yet wil be but bad composers". "Composer" is a loose term that generally refers to any person who writes music. More specifically, it is often used to denote people who are composers by occupation, or those who work in the tradition of Western classical music. Writers of exclusively or primarily songs may be called composers, but since the 20th century the terms 'songwriter' or 'singer-songwriter' are more often used, particularly in the tradition of popular music. In other contexts, the term 'composer' can refer to a literary writer, or more rarely and generally, someone who combines pieces into a whole.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Not who you're looking for? Others named composer: software; application-level dependency manager for the PHP p · role variant of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter · 1996 piano album by Cedar Walton

composer across IJR

Ask Genius about composer Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos

Notable quotes

“To me, the wonderful thing about music is a love affair between the performer and the composer, and between the composer and his audience. This love affair is a tripartite thing.”
— Samuel Adler, Quoted from an interview with Bruce Duffie in Chicago on WNIB, (1991)
“Recent IIPA reports cite rates of music piracy in excess of 90% in China, India, Mexico, and Brazil. Less and less of this traffic takes place on the street, as physical piracy shifts toward the narrower stock and higher margins of DVDs.”
— Joe Karaganis, "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies", (2011), p. 44
“Music makes things in our minds, but afterward most of them fade away. What remains? ...perhaps what we learn is not the music itself but a way of hearing it.”
— Marvin Minsky, "Music, Mind, and Meaning" ibid.
“[S]o far as music ever had a "meaning" beyond the immediate and exquisite value of the sound-pattern itself, its "meaning" must be simply an emotional attitude. It could never speak directly about the objective world, or "the nature of existence"; but it might create a complex emotional attitude which might be appropriate to some feature of the objective world, or to the universe as a whole.”
— Olaf Stapledon, Sirius (1944).
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer. Ancient Spanish Ballads.
“Thank you. If you appreciate the tuning so much, I hope you'll enjoy the playing more.”
— Ravi Shankar tuning up before his performance on Sitar, Soundbite of "The Concert For Bangladesh"

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.