compositions

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Both actors understood the task: to interrogate what drove each man to create music and why one’s compositions outlasted the other.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Eschewing Western musical notation, Mr. Smith developed a system that sometimes encapsulates compositions within paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

These years of collaboration led to several of his original compositions being pressed into 78 rpm shellac records.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Different compositions respond differently to light, especially at frequencies above the bandgap.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

Still, decisions about crescendos and decrescendos, tempo, and score reading have to be made, but there are endless possibilities for vocalizing and playing these child-centered compositions.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin