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A singer or composer of chorals.

ing; management; power or right of control. [Obs.] But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. Speed.

A disposer.

ental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.

ds the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology. Busby.

rtisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary. Macaulay.

A composer of lyric poems. [R.] Addison.

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry. Shelley.

A composer of madrigals.

A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.

A composer or singer of melodies.

A composer of verses. [Obs.]

A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.

A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.

A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

celestial spheres. -- Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. -- Music shell (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called beca…

A composer of fables.

An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.

An author; a composer. South.