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composition

[kom-puh-zish-uhn] / ˌkɒm pəˈzɪʃ ən /




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Then she found out the star wanted half the songwriting profits as a condition of cutting her track, even though he had nothing to do with the composition.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

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

The composition was stable, with his body right in the center against a mound of grasses—also in the center.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

A New Englander deeply influenced by his reading of the Transcendentalists, Ives went into the insurance business while continuing to compose music, though his compositions weren’t widely performed.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 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

Other compositions on the album draw on memories of Port Talbot, childhood visits with his grandfather, the cinema that first caught his imagination, and the people closest to him.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Last cycle, seven states had their most expensive judicial elections ever, including Montana and Kentucky, states with partisan compositions more like Kansas.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

These she has cut and shaped and glued carefully to a backing, to form multilayered compositions that resemble cloudscapes.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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