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English translation: song-writing contest


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English term or phrase:song contest for lyricists
English translation:song-writing contest
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13:21 Dec 10, 2004
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Social Sciences - Tourism & Travel
English term or phrase: song contest for lyricists
Hi all,
I'm trying to find out if the correct term in English is "lyricists" or "lyrists" on the above mentioned context. Are both correct? Lyricists only? Maybe lyrists?
Eg: Song Contest For Lyricists/Lyrists
Thanks
Victor
song-writing contest
Explanation:
song contest sounds a little odd

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Note added at 12 hrs 7 mins (2004-12-11 01:28:59 GMT)
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VH-1 Songwriting Contest VH-1 song contest for songwriters. Submit your songs, lyrics and poems. Get $50,000 in cash and prizes. Grammy award winning judges.
www.songoftheyear.com

WEB RESULTS
USA Songwriting Competition
USA Songwriting Competition - An International Songwriting Competition, Promoting the Art and Excellence of Songwriting. ... contest that might just open the right doors, make the right connections and get your songs heard. Also, winning songs will receive radio airplay (the first for any songwriting ...
Category: Music > Contests, Surveys, Polls
www.songwriting.net - 14k - Cached - More from this site

John Lennon Songwriting Contest
annual event open to writers in all genres offering cash prizes, music contracts, and studio equipment to the winners.
Category: Music > Contests, Surveys, Polls
www.jlsc.com - 2k - Cached - More from this site

UK Songwriting Contest
Official site of the UK national songwriting competition. ... \"The UK Songwriting Contest does what it says on the tin ... Michael Ward writes: \"After only one week your songwriting contest has already given us and our song credibility ...
www.songwritingcontest.co.uk - 19k - Cached - More from this site

Cooch Music: Amateur Songwriting Contest... Songwriter Services, The Song Seekers... Music Publishing and More!
Cooch Music\'s Amateur Songwriting Contests, J. Cooch Music (BMI) Music Publishing, Cooch Records and Songwriter Services.
www.coochmusic.com - 15k - Cached - More from this site
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Refugio
Local time: 23:17
Grading comment
A very well-documented answer. Thanks so much.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +16Merriam-Webster says
Cilian O'Tuama
4 +4lyricists
Annika Neudecker
5 +1song-writing contestRefugio
2 +1lyricist
seaMount


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +16
Merriam-Webster says


Explanation:
lyrist = a player on the lyre
lyricist = a writer of lyrics

Cilian O'Tuama
Local time: 08:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Annika Neudecker
1 min
agree  Jane Gabbutt
3 mins
agree  NancyLynn
3 mins
agree  Mikhail Kropotov
5 mins
agree  Orla Ryan
21 mins
agree  RHELLER: definitely!
23 mins
  -> aber hallo! ;-)
agree  Richard Benham
27 mins
agree  Marie Scarano
1 hr
agree  KathyT
1 hr
agree  Ian M-H
1 hr
agree  Ian Burley
1 hr
agree  Amy Williams
1 hr
agree  mportal
1 hr
agree  Judith Kerman
3 hrs
agree  Java Cafe
6 hrs
agree  Neil Phillipson
9 hrs
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
lyricists


Explanation:
... that's it :-)

Annika Neudecker
Local time: 08:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cilian O'Tuama: thanks - although M.-W. also gives lyricist as a synonym for lyrist (probably obsolete?)
2 mins
  -> Thanks :-) Hmm, It might be obsolete. I write songs myself and I've never heard "lyrist" in this context.
agree  Richard Benham: What Cilian said was that "lyricist" was given as asynonym for "lyrist", not the other way round.
26 mins
  -> Thanks, Richard. You're right..... I read it the wrong way.
agree  Ian M-H
1 hr
agree  Judith Kerman: I've never heard "lyrist" except as an instrumentalist who plays the lyre.
3 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
lyricist


Explanation:
To me a lyricist is someone who writes songtexts (lyrics).
A lyrist is a kind of poet (wrting poems that of course can be transformed into songtexts)

seaMount
Local time: 08:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Benham: A lyrist plays the lyre. A lyric poet can also be called a lyricist, but not a lyrist.
26 mins
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
song-writing contest


Explanation:
song contest sounds a little odd

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 12 hrs 7 mins (2004-12-11 01:28:59 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

VH-1 Songwriting Contest VH-1 song contest for songwriters. Submit your songs, lyrics and poems. Get $50,000 in cash and prizes. Grammy award winning judges.
www.songoftheyear.com

WEB RESULTS
USA Songwriting Competition
USA Songwriting Competition - An International Songwriting Competition, Promoting the Art and Excellence of Songwriting. ... contest that might just open the right doors, make the right connections and get your songs heard. Also, winning songs will receive radio airplay (the first for any songwriting ...
Category: Music > Contests, Surveys, Polls
www.songwriting.net - 14k - Cached - More from this site

John Lennon Songwriting Contest
annual event open to writers in all genres offering cash prizes, music contracts, and studio equipment to the winners.
Category: Music > Contests, Surveys, Polls
www.jlsc.com - 2k - Cached - More from this site

UK Songwriting Contest
Official site of the UK national songwriting competition. ... \"The UK Songwriting Contest does what it says on the tin ... Michael Ward writes: \"After only one week your songwriting contest has already given us and our song credibility ...
www.songwritingcontest.co.uk - 19k - Cached - More from this site

Cooch Music: Amateur Songwriting Contest... Songwriter Services, The Song Seekers... Music Publishing and More!
Cooch Music\'s Amateur Songwriting Contests, J. Cooch Music (BMI) Music Publishing, Cooch Records and Songwriter Services.
www.coochmusic.com - 15k - Cached - More from this site

Refugio
Local time: 23:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
A very well-documented answer. Thanks so much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cilian O'Tuama: maybe that's the question - straight to the point ;-) (though nothing wrong with "song contest" IMO, look at the fabulous Eurovision!).
7 hrs
  -> Thanks, Cilian
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