melodizer

plural melodizers · alternative melodiser

1. One who melodizes.

   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!

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

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   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.

   1880, The Musical Standard

   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.

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