Melodist

Young was a master melodist who had composed some of the most luscious songs of the era “Love Letters,” “Stella by Starlight,” “My Foolish Heart”. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

He's a little fed up with people asking how a drummer can be such a skilled melodist: "I'm approaching melody as a human being, not as a percussionist." ❋ Unknown (2010)

His enviable gifts as a melodist are evident throughout and finely straddle the line between the decorous and the deeply felt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in doing this latest record, I was forced into becoming a melodist by my producer because he kept saying what you're doing is really interesting. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Corgan is a skillful melodist in everything from pseudocountry to metal, but he'll repeat a catchy phrase to death, as if congratulating himself for thinking of it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In a way, it has been Puccini's misfortune to be remembered primarily as a melodist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But Steiner was a far better melodist; his tunes like the themes from Now, Voyager or A Summer Place just have a distinctiveness that Newman's themes don't. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2007)

Mr. LANSING: He is normally a very good melodist and normally really writes a good tune, but that song is meandering. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A terrific musician, but a real dud as a melodist. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2006)

Previn is a wonderful musician, but as a melodist, he is a total dud; the big love song, "I Like Myself," is a poor man's version of Bernstein's "Lucky to Be Me" from the stage version of On the Town, and all the other songs basically sound like good ideas for tunes, as opposed to actual good tunes. ❋ Jaime J. Weinman (2006)

The figures are caught in action: in Bacchic revelry bold lovers pursue "Maidens loth," while a "happy melodist" pipes "songs for ever new." ❋ Unknown (2003)

In a new stanza, Keats has his urn-reader try gamely to shake off this toil of double information by pushing everything -- trees, melodist, and especially, lovers -- into a "for ever," a "happy, happy" eternity of art. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The thing is, Mr. Arthur is hardly an average musician: He's an exceptional lyricist and a serious melodist-one of the few young songwriters out there who has a shot at being one of the greats. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She has always relied on collaborators, but there's a thread running throughout GHV2 that proves the simple fact that when she isn't distracted, Madonna is a supreme melodist as much as she is a marketer or provocateur. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The arrangement's international vibe demonstrates Sting's ability to ever expand his vision, and the tune - every bit the equal of 'Every Breath You Take' or 'If Ever I Lose My Faith in You' - reinforces his stature as a matchless melodist. ❋ Unknown (1999)

As a verbal melodist, especially a melodist of sweetness and of stately grace, and as a harmonist of prolonged and complex cadences, he is unsurpassable. ❋ Robert Huntington Fletcher (N/A)

But there is reflected a homely dignity and mobile, felicitous vein in which the poet seems endowed with every attribute of a melodist. ❋ Nicholas Breton (N/A)

Kelly; "I compare a good melodist to a _fine racer_, and counter-points to _hack post-horses_." ❋ Various (N/A)

Reeve, (who, though not much of a musician, was an admirable melodist,) abound also in the qualities which I have already alluded to, as peculiar to the national music adapted to sea songs. ❋ Various (N/A)

1. Omg [The Devil Wears Prada] they [sound] so [melodistic]! 2. Dudeeee that was so melodistic 3. What A Melodistically-Dramatic song ❋ JXtreame (2009)