Musician

A musician is a person who plays or composes music. Musicians can be classified by their role in production, including instrument and genre: * A singer (also called a vocalist) uses his or her voice. * An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument. * Composers and songwriters composition music and write it down. * A Conducting coordinates a musical ensemble. Musicians may also dance or produce choreography. The concept of the musician and the status of the musician in society is culture-specific. Think, for instance, about your own concepts relating to "the heavy metal musicist", "the folk musician", "the DJ", "the sarangi player", "the female drummer", and so on. See also: performer. Musicians may also be distinguished as amateur or professional. Professional musicians may work freelance, contract with a studio or Record label, or may be employed by an institution such as a church or business such as a Bar (establishment). Songs may be produced by some animals, including birds. Although many would surely debate whether birds are musicians, their ability to produce variations on the characteristic song of their species is a subject deserving more research (though relating less to music and more to animal communication). The freestyle chatter of even common birds, although lacking the complexity of methods employed by human beings, must be regarded as having some relation to the origins of music. Human beings did not begin producing music by banging away on a Musical keyboard, nor are they the only creatures which respond to (or produce) rhythm and melody. == Types of musicians == * Singer ''or'' vocalist * Composer * Conducting * Instrumentalist (a musician who plays a musical instrument). ** Bassist ''or'' Double bassist ** Bassoonist ** Cellist ** Clarinetist ** Drummer ** Electronic musician ** Flutist ''or'' Flautist ** Guitarist ** Hornist ''or'' Horn player ** Keyboardist ''or'' Keyboard player ** Oboist ** Organ grinder ** Organist ** Pianist ** Percussionist ** Recorder player ** Saxophonist ** Timpanist ** Trombonist ** Trumpeter ''or'' Trumpet player ** Tubist ''or'' Tuba player ** Turntablist ''or'' DJ ** Violinist ** Violist ''or'' Viola player * Arranger * Orchestrator * Record producer See also: List of musicians by genre ==Usage note== It should be noted that although in many cases the name of the player is made from the name of the instrument + ''"ist"'', it does not work for all instruments. ''Trumpetist'' for example is nonsense. There are also widespread differences in the acceptability of some of these terms: for example ''percussionist'' is in general and uncontested use whereas ''violist'' is not. Suggested reading: * A. P. Merriam, ''Anthropology of Music'', 1964 * John Blacking, ''How Musical is Man?'', 1973 * Sheila Whiteley, ''Music, Identity & Sexuality'', London: Routledge 2000 ==External links== *[http://www.vagalume.com.br/ Lyrics and Chords for Musicians] by Vaga-Lume Music occupations

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See Talk:Instrumentalist for rationale for merging Instrumentalist article into Musician article. --- User:RobLa 20:40 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC) ---- I took this out: However, musicians, at least insofar as their human manifestations go, can be distinguished from other creatures that create melodic sounds by their insistence on producing such sounds even when there is no clear reason for them to do so and even in the face of compelling reasons to cease such activity in favour of dealing with crises affecting their personal survival. In other words, even when no reward or likely advantage is to be obtained by the performance of "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Mustang Sally" in a bar full of losers, a musician will, nevertheless, perform such composition or other "song" requested by any audience even as his (or her) girlfriend (or boyfriend) is being wooed by the bartender and/or all his/her belongings are being carted off to a disposal site and/or staff of such establishment are telling him/her to "stop now!". (See also, "guitarist" and "singer" and "homeless person".) - on the grounds that it is not encyclopedic. It ''is'' rather witty and clever and made me smile a bit but I don't think that is a genuine reason for it being in here. Maybe its author would like to reword it into something more suitable? And to be fair some of the humor is a bit old - not such a bad thing but we have all done the homeless joke a bit too much in the past. Maybe a NPOV look at why some people see musicians that way? Otherwise I think it should stay out. Anonymous grumbler. :[http://www.effect.net.au/lukastan/humour/Jokes/Musician.txt More humour for serious musicians] - User:Zigger 17:32, 2004 Mar 28 (UTC) ---- Should all the links pointing to Bassoonist, for instance, be changed to Bassoonist? I can only think of one instance where the playing of the instrument is unusual (Contrabassoon), however it wouldn't amount to much more than a stub, and should be probably merged into Contrabassoon anyway... User:Dysprosia 08:00, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC) == Famous == I think a famous one is Ray Charles. --User:Patricknoddy 20:14, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)User:Patricknoddy --User:Patricknoddy 20:14, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)User talk:Patricknoddy == Not encyclopedic enough == This article is, in my opinion, not written in a very encyclopedic manner. The paragraph exhibiting its author's negative additude towards bad pop music is very un-equanimous (not that I disagree about its contents.) cool-RR :I removed the paragraph: :*A special exception must be made to so-called "performers", for example Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera. As they sing other peoples songs, dance other peoples choreography, achieve their popularity solely due to good looks, and require the help of an auto-tuning device in order to sound remotely acceptable. As a rule of thumb, as the ratio of 14 year old female listeners to other listeners approaches 2 or more, it becomes increasingly unlikely that the performer in question is actually a musician. :If that paragraphs contributor would like to re-add that information please provide sources which express your opinions. See: Wikipedia:Cite sources and Wikipedia:No original research. :I tried to add some of the terms used in that para to the article, such as "performer". User:Hyacinth 04:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) == On the other hand... == I do believe that there is some reasoning behind seperating performers from musicians. Obviously the above paragraph was written in a completely biased manner, however, if one were to talk to the vast majority of actual musicians out there (The ones we all make homeless jokes about), they would be appalled to be lumped in to the same catagory as "performers". Would there be any way of proving this to be the case? I think that's the more difficult question... Anonymous Time-Waster ---- As a musician, I can certainly agree with being "appalled" as you say, but bad music is still music, and bad musicians are still musicians, so there's really no reason to keep the separation. Lip synch is a different kettle of fish. --User:Wahoofive 07:26, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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