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lyr·ist

 (lĭr′ĭst)
n.
1. Music See lyricist.
2. (līr′ĭst) Music One who plays a lyre.
3. A lyric poet.

[Latin lyristēs, lyre player, from Greek luristēs, from lura, lyre.]
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lyrist

n
1. (Music, other) a person who plays the lyre
2. (Poetry) another word for lyricist2
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lyr•ist

(ˈlaɪər ɪst for 1; ˈlɪr ɪst for 2 )

n.
1. a person who plays the lyre.
2. a lyric poet.
[1650–60; < Latin < Greek]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.lyrist - a person who writes the words for songs
author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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References in classic literature ?
Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come.
(5) She is said to have given birth to the lyrist Stesichorus.
Their garlands sere, their magic mantles rent; The Pilgrims of Eternity,* whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow; from her wilds Ierne** sent The sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong, And love taught grief to fall like music from his tongue."
But when the question arose whether he was not only a lyrist but a poet, we were obliged to confess that he is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
Nevertheless this period includes in prose one writer greater than any prose writer of the previous century, namely Francis Bacon, and, further, the book which unquestionably occupies the highest place in English literature, that is the King James version of the Bible; and in poetry it includes one of the very greatest figures, John Milton, together with a varied and highly interesting assemblage of lesser lyrists.
The last important group among these lyrists is that of the more distinctly religious poets.
Had he been a New Englander, it is probable that he would have been ranked as the first of American lyrists by that magnanimous cabal which has so long controlled the destinies of American Letters, in conducting the thing called "The North American Review." The poem just cited is especially beautiful; but the poetic elevation which it induces we must refer chiefly to our sympathy in the poet's enthusiasm.
The song titled 'Tujhe Bhulega Na Tera Hindustan' is written by well-known lyrist Sameer.
It was first spearheaded by noted novelist, short story writer, essayist and lyrist plus Noble Laureate in literature Rabindra Nath Tagore through his various creative discourses.
Keeping with his capitalist approach to songwriting, Wickes bluntly proclaimed: "From the very conception of the song-idea the lyrist (13) and composer are guided by commercial motives." (14) Like Harris before him, Wickes was a salesman who peddled songs.
The Romantic conception that music precedes thought is utilized by Browning in Pauline when the poet-speaker compares the early stirrings of soul to a bard who first plays music and then translates these intuitions into the rational realm of words, or the bard's song: "And first I sang as I in dream have seen / Music wait on a lyrist for some thought, / Yet singing to herself until it came" (ll.
Led by drummer Jay Andy Herriquez and lyrist and dancer, Kenroy Evagonish, the band has a demanding practice schedule to ensure that the drums, lyres, percussion and dancers are all together in rhythm and movements.