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Tunesmith
noun
A composer of tunes.
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He established himself as both tunesmith and technician balancing the intricacy of his songs' arrangements against simple choruses and clean production.Mr Lynne's love of arranging is something he attributes to his childhood memories of the standards, several of which he recorded at home for his recent solo album, "Long Wave".
I first went there in 1991, and ever since, to borrow the words of a great Tamla-Motown tunesmith, the place has really got a hold on me.
There have been two Billy Joels: the angry young man-cum-irrepressible tunesmith from the hitmaking days and the moody middle-aged millionaire Everyman of these later years.
Modern scholars have discarded the Romantic picture of Schubert as the innocent tunesmith, but agree on little else.
Granted, the limited palette of film scores sometimes results from the limited abilities of the practitioners, but almost any Hollywood tunesmith could achieve more distinctive results if the iron fist of cliché were to relax just a little.
In the decades after the "Rhapsody," the questions only intensified in the light of developments in both music and society: How had a popular tunesmith composed our best-known achievements in classical forms?
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Among tunesmiths his is a melody played in a penny arcade.
But on Broadway, and in musical theater more generally, this has been a more-or-less ironclad division of labor: Composers are the tunesmiths who forge the raw material of the music — melody, harmony, rhythm — which arrangers and orchestrators then embellish into a full sound, much as costume designers clothe the actors.
My take is that Hüsker Dü's separate but different tunesmiths were both buoyed by Hart's drumming, as Azerrad indicates, thus transmuting the rage most fans hear in Hüsker Dü into a propulsion that in the moment was provisionally liberating.
Swathed in anachronistic silliness — and blessed with a bouncy theme song by the Broadway tunesmiths Charles Strouse and Lee Adams — it lasted only 13 episodes on ABC in late 1975.
Including Zack Glass, a singer-songwriter (and Mr. Glass's son) versed in reggae and Brazilian styles, made sense, given that Philip Glass has collaborated with worldly tunesmiths like Paul Simon and Suzanne Vega.
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