Compositional

The Clogs are a four-person, part-time improvisational and part-time compositional from the US and the land down under, and while their instrumentation is somewhat folk in nature, their sound is very progressive. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture. ❋ Henry James (1879)

A neo-davidsonian analysis that posits an event variable in the syntactic structure is a step towards the right kind of compositional, internalist semantics that linguistics should aspire for today. ❋ Kesav (2008)

It would have been a perfect way to explore the medium, to use blog serialization as a kind of compositional pallete to write the novel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One sometimes says that Tarski's definition of satisfaction is compositional, meaning that the class of assignments which satisfy a compound formula F is determined solely by (1) the syntactic rule used to construct F from its immediate constituents and (2) the classes of assignments that satisfy these immediate constituents. ❋ Hodges, Wilfrid (2006)

It's almost a kind of compositional sleight-of-hand, as Sting uses catchy melodies and pop-savvy arrangements to distract our attention away from just how crafty these songs are. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Paired with a ton of angst, this is the kind of compositional precision that can only be attained by hiding away in a random shack in Canada. ❋ William Ward (2010)

All of them sounded completely fresh, and introduced unexpected elements such as compositional scores, dub effects, slurring trombones, operatic solos, homoerotic chanting and amateur percussionists into the disco matrix. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Using a phased approach as a platform for improving sorghum over time, the company will use technologies such as compositional screening and analysis, marker assisted breeding and gene stacking to deploy proprietary feedstocks near term and ultimately to optimize sorghum for specific bioprocessors 'needs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only major compositional change over this century was the decline in the fraction of mainline Protestants nationwide, so simply by chance more mainline Protestants would find nonmainline partners. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

But Kierkegaard's philosophical spelunking of the process of decision makes an interesting frame for a consideration of both compositional and improvisational choice. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

If you're still under the assumption that this is a music blog, you might at this point be sensing a distant symmetry between Wallace's hyper-selectionism and some more deterministic compositional and analytical methods. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

All choices — be they measured compositional considerations or spur-of-the-moment improvisations — are equally intuitive, equally risky, equally discontinuous. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

For his part, Xu Bing eschewed the MFA's collection altogether and chose a reprint of the 1679 "Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting," the go-to book for formal compositional elements and classical brushstrokes. ❋ Lee Lawrence (2011)

It is _only_ at that point that Copland's public persona and compositional work become "apolitical", whether testifying in Washington or in the 12-tone works. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)