Composition
Techniques and structures used in creating music.
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ArrangementcompositionAn adaptation of a musical composition for different instruments or voices than …CanoncompositionA contrapuntal composition in which a melody is imitated exactly by one or more …CompositioncompositionThe art and craft of creating original music by organising sounds, rhythms, and …CounterpointcompositionThe art of combining two or more independent melodic lines simultaneously.OrchestrationcompositionThe art of assigning musical material to specific instruments within an orchestr…PolyphonycompositionA musical texture featuring two or more independent melodic lines sounding simul…SequencecompositionThe repetition of a musical pattern at successively higher or lower pitch levels…TransposecompositionTo shift an entire piece or passage to a different key while keeping all interva…Twelve-Tone TechniquecompositionA method of composition that treats all twelve chromatic pitches as equal, order…
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