tunesmithn.
/ˈtjuːnsmɪθ/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A composer of popular music or songs; derogatory, a composer of unoriginal or trifling music.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > trifling or unoriginal
tunesmith1926
1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz viii. 171 Jazz..is the hardest of all to write, the tunesmiths say.
1959 E. S. Turner Court of St. James's xxiii. 256 A modern lyric writer and tunesmith in Tin Pan Alley.
1962 Times 24 Aug. 11/6 How else does it happen that Bellini, dismissed for years as a vapid tunesmith, has become admired in our own day as a master of poised classical music-drama.
1976 Gramophone Nov. 843/3 How dare he dismiss Duke Ellington as a mere ‘tunesmith’!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
<
n.1926