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instruˈmentalist
[f. instrumental + -ist.]
1. a. One who plays on a musical instrument; a performer of instrumental music. (Opp. to vocalist.)
1823Herald in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1824) 108 There are many aspiring instrumentalists who protest boldly against the monopoly. 1864H. Spencer Illustr. Univ. Progr. 26 Uniting the now separate offices of poet, composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. 1871Athenæum 2 Dec. 727 This body of vocalists and instrumentalists.
b. A composer of instrumental music. rare.
1880W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 572 The age in which he [Beethoven] lived produced more than one instrumentalist of the highest order.
2. An advocate of the use of instrumental music in public worship. nonce-use.
1882–3in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 1961 An injunction is more than a permission, which is all for which most instrumentalists contend.
3. Philos. One who advocates the theory of instrumentalism. Also attrib.
1909Philos. Rev. XVIII. 397 From the instrumentalist standpoint, the inquiry, What is reality? appears..futile. 1913W. Caldwell Pragmatism & Idealism i. 17 Professor Dewey has also written many..short studies upon the application of an instrumentalist conception of philosophy to education and to social questions. 1940B. Russell Inquiry into Meaning & Truth viii. 154 There are some schools of philosophy—notably the Hegelians and the instrumentalists—which deny the distinction between data and inferences altogether. 1965J. D. North Measure of Universe App. 421 It would be misleading to describe the views represented in this book as ‘pragmatist’ or ‘instrumentalist’. |