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monodist|ˈmɒnədɪst| [f. monody + -ist.] 1. One who writes or sings a monody.
1751Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 183 Think you, Madam, that a certain monodist did not imagine himself possessed by this purer flame. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. 13 Aug. I. 1106 The monodist [sc. Huddesford, who wrote a ‘Monody on the Death of Dick, an Academical Cat’] connects him with cats of great renown in the annals of witchcraft. 2. One who composes in the monodic style; opposed to contrapuntist (Cent. Dict. 1890).
1916Stanford & Forsyth Hist. Mus. vii. 148 There is no sudden revolution in the method of handling the musical material such as the monodists engineered in 1600. 1974Country Life 14 Mar. 590/3 In the early-17th century..the Italian Monodists..sought to find a new expressive force by abandoning the use of the contrapuntal device. |