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Composition: The arrangement of elements of form and colour within an artwork.

Body Composition: How much of your body is composed of fat and how much is composed of everything else. Your body composition is also called your body-fat percentage.

Audience Composition: The distribution of a station's audiences by demographic group.

Modular Decomposition: The design that results from stepwise refinement, since your design has been 'decomposed' into modules

Decomposition: The biochemical process where biological materials are broken down into smaller particles and eventually into basic chemical compounds and elements. See also decomposer.

Mode: The most frequently occurring variate.

Nocturne: A night scene.

Medley: Often used in overtures, a composition that uses passages from other movements of the composition in its entirety.

Nonet: A composition written for nine instruments.

Imitation: Compositional technique in which a melodic idea is presented in one voice (or part), then restated in another while the first voice continues with new material.