Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a different melody for each strophe.
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- adjective music Of a
song , composed so that eachstanza may have different music, rather than the same beingrepeated for all of them.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Someone can pick a single attribute of art song and use that attribute to form his or her definition -- maybe it means more chromatic chord progressions, maybe it means through-composed as opposed to verse-chorus-verse-chorus.
Daniel J. Kushner: Vital Vox: "A & Q" With Gelsey Bell Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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It has the trappings of an opera—it's through-composed, for unamplified operatic voices—but the spirit of a B-horror film.
Creep Show Heidi Waleson 2011
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Although the score to Bring It On: The Musical may sound as if it is through-composed no song list appears in the program, there were actually two different songwriting teams involved in the production.
George Heymont: Girls on Top George Heymont 2012
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Study the song, how many lines in the verse and chorus, does it have a chorus, or maybe a tag, is it through-composed?
Ruth Gerson: How to Write a Song: For Writer's Block or Beginners Ruth Gerson 2011
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In the meantime, some vintage French through-composed jazz for your weekend. posted by Matthew @ 4: 50 PM
Le jazz frais Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Two nights earlier, at the University of the Streets, she performed "Raging Waters, Red Sands," a mostly through-composed suite that blended shuo-chang , an ancient Chinese narrative form, with a resolutely downtown Manhattan musical vernacular.
A Singer's Arrival, in Her Own Words Larry Blumenfeld 2011
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Someone can pick a single attribute of art song and use that attribute to form his or her definition -- maybe it means more chromatic chord progressions, maybe it means through-composed as opposed to verse-chorus-verse-chorus.
Daniel J. Kushner: Vital Vox: "A & Q" With Gelsey Bell Daniel J. Kushner 2011
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In the meantime, some vintage French through-composed jazz for your weekend. posted by Matthew @ 4: 50 PM
Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Once settled, he set himself the herculean task of writing the libretto and score for a through-composed musical drama, inspired by the life and work of the man whom President-elect Obama would famously call 'The Preacher from Atlanta', in his Grant Park speech in November 2008.
Cedric Perrier: I Dream : Lowery & Young Join King Family at World Premiere of New MLK opera 2010
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As one might imagine, staging a contemporary, through-composed work is not for the faint-hearted.
Cedric Perrier: I Dream : Lowery & Young Join King Family at World Premiere of New MLK opera 2010
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