Definition of "instrumentalist" []

• Music One who plays an instrument. (noun)
• An advocate or a student of instrumentalism. (noun)
• Of, relating to, or advocating instrumentalism. (adjective)

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• "In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture."
• ""You would think that science and technology were the only things that are important," he said, adding that this government and its predecessor were "instrumentalist"."
• "Williams — from the 'instrumentalist' Aristotelian who reduces ethics to what Grice would have called entirely 'natural meanings' (p. 180 n. 2)."