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Composition (Music)

Action or process of creating or writing of music; art of creating music

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    A compendium or, introduction to practical music. In five parts. Teaching, by a New and Easy Method. I. The Rudiments of Song. II. The Principles of Composition. III. The Use of Discords. IV. The Form of Figurate Descant. V. The Contrivance of Canon. By Christopher Sympson.

    Simpson, Christopher, d. 1669. | Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
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    An essay on practical musical composition, according to the nature of that science and the principles of the greatest musical authors. By Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann, organist of His Majesty's German Chapel at St. James

    Kollmann, Augustus Frederic Christopher, 1756-1829. | Date: M,DCC,XCIX. [1799]

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