melodizer

English

Etymology

melodize +‎ -er

Noun

melodizer (plural melodizers)

1. One who melodizes.
   • 1880, The Musical Standard:

     The melodizer revels in flute and cremona stops, occasionally varied by trumpet and vox humana, and thus while one hand performs the customary one-two-three of the waltz, the other gives solos and runs, until it sinks away, probably with a final trill on the piccolo, and the player stands up in time to show that the wicked man has at last turned away from the sin that he was committing.

   • 1890, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers:

     O wonder-working Queen! Romance, Immortal mother of the world that seems, Thy work alone is safe from time and chance, O golden melodizer of sweet dreams!

   • 2014, Silas Olaoyin Abayomi, The Watchnight Songs, page 1491864559:

     Our erstwhile arranger - melodizer and matchmaker succeeded in brainwashing the couple, from his cantata and motet marriage - the home schooling became an oft-repeated roulade passage which neither party pulls out he unendingly charged.

Alternative forms

• melodiser

Anagrams

• modelizer