performer, player, minstrel; bard &c (poet) 597; [specific types of
musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist,
pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer†, trumpeter, piper,
drummer; catgut scraper.
band, orchestral waits.
vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter†,
chauntress†, songstress; cantatrice†.
choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].
nightingale, philomel†, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides;
sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo†, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore;
tuneful nine, tuneful quire.
composer &c 413.
performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization†.
V. play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle; strike the
lyre, beat the drum; blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn;
doodle; grind the organ; touch the guitar &c (instruments) 417; thrum,
strum, beat time.
execute, perform; accompany; sing a second, play a second;
compose, set to music, arrange.
sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt,
purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle; sol-fa†; intone.
have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.
Adj. playing &c v.; musical.
Adv. adagio, andante &c (music) 415.