Draft:Original research/Compositions across disciplines

In every composition of every type, there are elements, notations, quantities, and their relations.

These may be found in a composition of music, a composition of literature or writing, a composition of art and yes even the composition of a rock.

Once you know what the composition of a particular work is, you are one step closer to creating such a piece.

Writings
A newspaper, or online, feature article is composed of the following:
 * 1) a lead,
 * 2) topic sentence,
 * 3) a body, and an
 * 4) ending.

The ratio of each of these may depend on the audience. In an inverted pyramid style the ratios are about 5:3:2 for lead (including topic sentence), body, and ending.

There is also what's called a "news-peg" or "hook", something that will interest a reader, usually the first sentence or the title.

The following elements should be present: What, When, Where, Why, Who, and How. Nearly all of these elements must appear somewhere in the story.

Music


A classical music piece may have movements.

"A movement is a portion of a complete work which is able to stand on its own: it is (usually) separated from the other surrounding movements by a brief silence, (usually) ends with a satisfactory cadence, (usually) has its own distinct set of themes or motifs, has it's own tempo (or set of tempi), may possibly be in a different key from other movements, and, notably, has its own distinct structure."

"The parts (or movements) of a symphony are usually free standing, with one movement ending, a pause, and then the next movement beginning. But the sections, conceived as parts of a whole, somehow relate to one another. The German word for movement is Satz, which means “sentence.” The four movements of a symphony fit together like the four sentences in this paragraph."

"With rare exceptions, the four movements of a symphony conform to a standardized pattern. The first movement is brisk and lively; the second is slower and more lyrical; the third is an energetic minuet (dance) or a boisterous scherzo (“joke”); and the fourth is a rollicking finale"

Apparently, the lengths of movements and the number of movements have varied over several centuries.

There may be vocal and/or instrumental components. Further, the number of instruments is variable as is the number of vocals.

The elements of music consist of notations such as "used to indicate the pitch (how high or low), temporal information (speed or placement in time) and duration (how long) of discrete sounds, [...] Notes are named successively using the first seven letters of the Roman alphabet, i.e. A, B, C, D, E, F, G. [however the musical alphabet is C.D.E.F.G.A.B.C.] [...] The notes are placed on a set of five horizontal lines separated by spaces. This group of five horizontal lines is referred to as a staff or stave. The plural form of either word is staves. The position of the note on the stave is directly related to its pitch."

"Palestrina uses passing tones, suspensions, neighbor notes, and anticipations in decreasing time proportions."

Visual arts
"Painting elements, ie brush strokes, that cannot be matched in both views will inhibit stereo fusion and the viewers may experience discomfort. [...] canvases contain multiple refining coarse-to-fine layers of brush strokes that compose the final painting."

Painters search for the right color. To do so they use color notations.

"A painting composition formula which has been found satisfactory for the general purposes [...] contains chlorinated neutral oil or paraffin of chlorine content, 25% chlorinated rubber of preferably 60% to 68% chlorine, 10%; tricresyl phosphate (5%); zinc borate (15%); pigment and filler (25%); and solvent (20%). The proportions of the above formula may be varied and equivalent ingredients may be substituted".

Dances
In dance composition there are elements, notations, quantities, and their relations.

"Historically, the basic methodology for dance composition is a show-and-tell model: present the movement study, then critique it. If creativity is truly paramount to the development of artistry and choreographic skill, that pedagogical value should be reflected in the unifying structure of the course—the way time is used, assignments given, in teaching behaviors, and modes of assessment. Using the acronym C.R.E.A.T.E. to identify six pedagogical targets, [an approach is proposed] for designing a composition course. The pedagogical principles—Critical reflection, Reason for dance making, Exploration and experimentation, Aesthetic agenda, Thematic integrity, and Expression and experience—are proposed as guides."

Minerals
Def. a solid, homogeneous, crystalline chemical element or compound that results from natural inorganic processes is called a mineral.

Def. any "naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties" is called a mineral.

For example, kaolinite is Al2Si2O5(OH)4.

Its elemental composition is aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H).

Its oxide composition is Al2O3, 2(SiO2), and 2(H2O).

Compositions can be weight percentages, molecular percentages or atomic percentages. Kaolinite has 11.8 atomic % (11.8 at %) aluminum and the same at % of silicon, 23.5 at % hydrogen, and 52.9 at % oxygen.

Theoretical compositions
Def.
 * 1) the proportion or "combining of different parts to make a whole",
 * 2) the "general makeup of something", or
 * 3) a "mixture or compound"

is called a composition.

Rocks
"The quantities of clay minerals and residual parent-rock minerals were estimated semiquantitatively utilizing X-ray diffraction techniques."

Semantics
"Compositions" as it is used here appears on p. 426 of Roget's International Thesaurus, 7th Edition. Here's a summary of the book "A classic reference book that has been used by millions all over the world, Roget’s International Thesaurus is the product of more than a century and a half of continual expansion, reorganization, and improvement. Today this book is not only the most time-tested and bestselling thesaurus ever, but, newly revised, it is also the most up-to-date and comprehensive reflection of the English language as it is currently used."

The category "Abstract relations" of which "compositions" is a member comes from Aristotle and was incorporated by Roget into his thesaurus. It's a category reflecting an organization of meanings. Many people associate the art or process of composing, writing, or creating with the word "composition", or the work or piece composed, but they are categorically different.