ex·ec·u·tant

(ĭg-zĕk′yə-tənt)

One who performs or carries out, especially a skilled performer: The dancer is the choreographer's executant.

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executant

(ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtənt)

a performer, esp of musical works

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ex•ec•u•tant

(ɪgˈzɛk yə tənt)

n.

a person who executes or performs, esp. musically.

[1855–60; < French exécutant]

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Noun

executant - a performer (usually of musical works)

music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

performer, performing artist - an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

Translations

esecutore

executant

[ɪgˈzekjʊtənt] N → ejecutante mf

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executant

n → Ausführende(r) mf

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Rosamond, with the executant's instinct, had seized his manner of playing, and gave forth his large rendering of noble music with the precision of an echo.

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Invent a piano which will respond as delicately to the turning of a handle as our present ones do to the pressure of the fingers, and the acrobats will be driven back to their carpets and trapezes, because the sole faculty necessary to the executant musician will be the musical faculty, and no other will enable him to obtain a hearing."

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There were no signs of any technical compromises or diminution of executant ability: trills crisp and clear, no excessive pedal, and the thunderous double octave run down the keyboard in Chopin Ballade No 1 was thrilling.

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Executant is likely to be the company PST Group with a price of 21.47 million BGN with VAT.In the municipality budget for the year, however, there are relatively little funds for this project because it was clear that it can not begin before the end of the European Presidency, which is until the end of June.

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Abrahams notes that "(Miriam) is not described as repeating the male paean; and it is not an unreasonable suggestion that she was author as well as executant, and that the men expanded her song." (5)

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Whereas, in learning all instruments the laws of their technics rest on a firm foundation, and may be taught the student, in accordance with fixed rules, by any thoroughly trained executant on a given instrument, the technics of vocal art are to this day an unsolved problem.