Melodist is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 449 anagrams from letters in melodist (deilmost).
First recorded in 1780-90; melod(y) + -ist
As is shown by the two or three vocal works of his that I have seen, Gleason is less successful as a melodist than as a harmonist.
His songs prove him to be a melodist, the most original since Brahms in this form.
Leoncavallo is never much of a melodist, and 'Pagliacci' teems with reminiscences.
It sometimes is contended that Wagner adopted his system of leading motives because he was not a melodist.
Bellini was essentially a melodist, a lyric composer of ideallic naiveté.
In 1825 Moore paid a visit to Scott, who pronounced the Irish melodist the "prettiest warbler" he had ever heard.
More pleasantly thus wilt thou labour, and, indeed, of old thou wert a melodist.
Italy has produced no melodist equal to him, and Germany only one—Franz Schubert.