composition
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Tina Tallon, a professor of artificial intelligence and music composition at The Ohio State University, explains that a "click track" features clicks or beeps such as a metronome, or other cues to capture rhythm.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
A composition by Rubén Fuentes and Alberto Cervantes, the song wasn’t just another lilting ranchera from the 1950s — that much was clear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
A July trip to Target to get everything on her list — among the items, two packs of wired headphones, Band-Aids, eight folders and four composition notebooks — cost about $230.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Writers have always had to break the spell of composition to inspect their creation’s seams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Penelope looked at the canvas: the colors, the brushstrokes, the composition.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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On “Live In New York: At the Rubin Museum of Art,” released in 2006, Mr. Batiste played just one of his compositions, “Green Chimneys.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
In one sense, he was selling himself short: “Revolver” featured three Harrison compositions, a glut of new material that included “Taxman,” “Love You To” and “I Want to Tell You.”
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
More complex compositions - with ultrafast trills and combinations that contain lots of information - are more common in temperate forests, where birds tend to communicate at closer range.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The discovery offers the strongest evidence so far that planets with broadly Earth-like temperatures and rocky compositions may exist beyond our solar system while also retaining conditions that could potentially support life.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
For even more possibilities, try a web search for "exotic scales"; or try inventing your own scales and using them in compositions and improvisations.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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