monodist
(ˈmɒnədɪst)
[f. monody + -ist.]
1. One who writes or sings a monody.
| 1751 Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 183 Think you, Madam, that a certain monodist did not imagine himself possessed by this purer flame. 1825 Hone 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).
| 1916 Stanford & 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. 1974 Country 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. |