| musical composition | |
noun | |
| a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" |
musical composition
the act of conceiving a piece of music, the art of creating music, or the finished product. These meanings are interdependent and presume a tradition in which musical works exist as repeatable entities. In this sense, composition is necessarily distinct from improvisation
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