instrumentalist
IPA: ɪnstrʌmˈɛntʌɫɪst
noun
- One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist.
- (philosophy) An adherent of instrumentalism.
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Examples of "instrumentalist" in Sentences
- MoondogAvant street-sound composer and multi-instrumentalist Moondog a.k.a.
- He calls this an "instrumentalist" view, which "replaces the notion of Truth with the notion of viability."
- The multi-instrumentalist guitar, bass, piano, drums and vocalist has issued nearly a dozen releases to date.
- Most single voiced instrumentalist are pretty good sight readers, it is the pianist that usually has the problem.
- Williams — from the 'instrumentalist' Aristotelian who reduces ethics to what Grice would have called entirely 'natural meanings' (p. 180 n. 2).
- Secondly, a more "instrumentalist" consideration: It is highly likely that any open expression of sympathy by our president for the pro-Musavi side would backfire.
- "You would think that science and technology were the only things that are important," he said, adding that this government and its predecessor were "instrumentalist".
- He's swinging to a hard- driving beat here, big-band-era style, and showing that he is a major jazz vocalist-instrumentalist to compete with his namesakes, Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan.
- In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture.
- These are "instrumentalist" theories, which claim that ideas arise from elite manipulation of the public: elites propagate certain ideas they believe will advance their interests, even if this produces an unintended negative outcome.
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