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Composer vs Programmist - What's the difference?

composer | programmist |

As nouns the difference between composer and programmist

is that composer is one who composes; an author while programmist is one who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.

composer

English

Noun

(wikipedia composer) (en noun)
  • One who composes; an author.
  • Especially , one who composes music.
  • One who, or that which, quiets or calms.
    • (en)

    programmist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
  • * 1953 , Benedetto Croce, History of Europe in the nineteenth century
    • But these first theorists and programmists of communism, who conceived their programmes after the fashion of an economic enterprise, a hygienic reform, or an educational institution
  • * 1965 , Oscar Douglas Skelton, David Morice Leigh Farr, Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (volume 2)
    • In Quebec in 1875 he was ultramontane, programmist , out-Veuilloting Veuillot, swearing by Mgr. Bourget and Mgr. Lafleche
  • (music) A composer of program music.
  • * 1916 , Daniel Gregory Mason, The Art of Music: The Opera
    • the leit-motif, that much-vaunted invention of programmists
  • * 1999 , Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, Culture (page 901)
    • Yet all the while I find myself seriously distrusting the psychological validity of the current classification of composers into absolutists and programmists or impressionists.