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lyricist
/ ˈlɪrɪsɪst /
noun
- a person who writes the words for a song, opera, or musical play
- Also calledlyrist a lyric poet
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Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.
One of the many pleasures of the book is to see the lyricist frolic in another form.
He is a gifted lyricist, but in the Hong Kong live music scene, rap is a niche genre.
No one wrote about this subject in a way children could understand better than the famous American lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
Pindar, the greatest lyricist of the Greeks, wrote about athletic contests; athletes were his heroes.
Subjective this poet may be—is it not a virtue in the lyricist?
To pass down in history as an exceptional beauty is to inspire art ideals and to furnish a theme for the lyricist.
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