单词 | tunesmith |
释义 | tunesmith colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈtjuːnsmɪθ| [f. tune n. + smith n.] A composer of popular music or songs; derog., a composer of unoriginal or trifling music.
1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz viii. 171 Jazz..is the hardest of all to write, the tunesmiths say. 1959E. S. Turner Court of St. James's xxiii. 256 A modern lyric writer and tunesmith in Tin Pan Alley. 1962Times 24 Aug. 11/6 How else does it happen that Bellini, dismissed for years as a vapid tunesmith, has become admired in our own day as a master of poised classical music-drama. 1976Gramophone Nov. 843/3 How dare he dismiss Duke Ellington as a mere ‘tunesmith’! |

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