Sentence:  The Negro <WSD>composer</WSD> Hall Johnson studied the Americanegro Suite and said of it , `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music , these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  someone who composes music as a profession