composition
- noun
- /ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
- Presentations: Students perform their compositions for peers and reflect on the final product.
- a musical composition
- a music composition
- an original composition
You know, you could have as detailed A composition as you like.
- You know, you could have as detailed A composition as you like.
- So in The composer, it was a world premiere of a modern composition.
- Even the the music cues and like the composition, everything was just delightfully strange.
- You took his most famous composition, the Saber Dance, and you made it the theme for the masturbating bear.
- And, and so, you know, I wrote this, this organ composition, which is based on the Bible, but I didn't refrain from putting little jokes in it.
- First, there's the copyright on the composition itself, all the parts of a work that can be written down South, lyrics, notes.
- But still life is is a work or a composition that basically deals with a very composed, you know, scene with inanimate objects.
- And I wanted to give for you and for your audience, little mouth harp composition.
Examples
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Some vocal solo contests list required compositions that can be used with any vocal range.
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For new music teachers and undergraduates in training, leading any improvisation or composition activity can feel intimidating.
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It just, I think it's the composition of the music that makes me feel so at home.
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In this unit, students work in small groups to create original compositions using a form of their choice.
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The title for the composition was "Why We Like Principal Jeffries."
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Girls, continue with your compositions.
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One of the biggest benefits of composition instruction is that you've written a piece of music.
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The mixed-gender groups had high ratings for their compositions and had high levels of collaboration.
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You know, they say, yeah, when Mozart presented his composition of music, one of his masterpieces, to the Archduke of Austria.
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For our last act of the show, Stanley Minor will sing a composition that he wrote himself.
Synonyms
A written or spoken account that gives information about something
A creative work such as a song, painting or article
A written report that gives research results
A musical work like a song or music played by instruments
A short school essay on a particular topic
A musical work that a composer writes and often numbers
A work that shows skill and feeling, like a painting or sculpture
A piece of creative writing that shows thoughts and feelings, like a novel or poem
A written work like a play created to be performed by actors on stage, television, or film
Compounds
A written work like a play created to be performed by actors on stage, television, or film
A piece of creative writing that shows thoughts and feelings, like a novel or poem
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Composition comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and ponere 'to put'. A composition as a piece of music or writing is something someone has 'put together', much like a composer who creates a song or poem.