Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Musician (Performance of Music)

Nouns
  • musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel
  • bard etc. (poet) Poetry
  • [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist
  • harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer
  • catgut scraper. band, orchestral waits. vocalist, melodist
  • singer, warbler
  • songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress
  • cantatrice. choir, quire, chorister
  • chorus, chorus singer
  • philomel, thrush
  • siren
  • bulbul, mavis
  • Pierides
  • sacred nine
  • Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore
  • tuneful nine, tuneful quire. composer etc. Melody. Concord. performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization.
Verbs
  • play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle
  • strike the lyre, beat the drum
  • blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn
  • doodle
  • grind the organ
  • touch the guitar etc. (instruments) Musical Instruments
  • thrum, strum, beat time. execute, perform
  • accompany
  • sing a second, play a second
  • compose, set to music, arrange. sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl, quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle
  • sol-fa
  • intone. have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.
Adjectives
  • playing etc. v.
  • musical.
Adverbs
  • adagio, andante etc. (music) Music.