balladeer vs musician

balladeer

noun
  • A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads. 

verb
  • To sing a ballad 

musician

noun
  • A composer, conductor, or a performer of music; more specifically, it's a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, an occupation, or a profession. 

How often have the words balladeer and musician occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )