Organist

Word ORGANIST
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Hyphenation or gan ist
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Definitions and meanings of "Organist"

What do we mean by organist?

A musician who plays the organ. noun

One who plays on an organ, especially a pipe-organ; specifically, in modern churches, the regular official charged with playing the organ and often with the management of all the music of the service. noun

In medieval music, a singer who sang some other part than the cantus firmus or melody. Also organizer. noun

In ornithology, a West Indian tanager, Euphone or Euphonia musica: so called from its musical powers. The name is also given to other tanagers of this genus. noun

One who plays on the organ. noun

One of the priests who organized or sung in parts. noun

A musician who plays the organ. noun

A person who plays an organ noun

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The word "organist" in example sentences

It permits the organist a surprising degree of freedom of expression, even to the extent that every organist is a kind of composer in his or her own right, by virtue of the tempos and stops chosen for each piece. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She has been the Abbey's main organist since 1995. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The organist is future director G. Wallace Woodworth. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

I went because the organist was a friend of a friend -- significant for me, since I don't go to many organ concerts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

As luck would have it, the organist is a kindly soul who last year suffered through too much of my squawking. ❋ Trinityboy (2005)

Dor glanced across and saw that the organist was a small tangle tree, its tentacles writhing expertly over the keys. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1981)

Soon a signal given by an usher to the organist was the prelude to solemn music, which filled the church; and a stout clerical assistant, with a book under his arm, appeared at the rear door. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)

In the Cathedrals, too, the organist was a long way off from the choir. ❋ George Laing Miller (N/A)

The organist is a colored girl under twenty years of age, and the music is excellent. ❋ George Freeman (1922)

The organist is a tall, thin man of melancholy, uræmic aspect, wearing a black slouch hat with a wide brim and a yellow overcoat that barely reaches to his knees. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The organist was the first person she captivated in Welsley, where she was to have so many warm adherents very soon. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

His organist was a musical genius, and a composer of no mean ability, and on the cabinet organ the priest had brought from Durango on mule-back he played not only hymns, but also excellent dance music. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

"I try to give people a feeling of what hockey was like years ago, when the organist was the only kind of music we had," Cannarozzi said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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