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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Novel Excerpt: World Fantasy | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Summoner's Tales] Reference

"It's a compositional story," said Dale Jorgenson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strong Productivity Defies Trend] Reference

Messiaen himself belonged to no compositional school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of Hopelessness And Hope] Reference

It clearly influenced his own compositional technique.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Allegro': Revisiting An Experimental Score] Reference

And it was all about essentially compositional analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference

"I'll find where a star will be in the compositional plane," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographer Documents Secret Satellites — All 189 of Them] Reference

What did Robert Schumann think about his wife Clara's compositional skills?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Families For Thanksgiving] Reference

It moves (and occasionally lurches) from one compositional school to another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Nights At The Opera] Reference

How would you describe some of Monk's compositional and pianistic innovations?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Monk': A New Look At An American Original] Reference

I wanted to learn compositional technique, and that's what I learned from him.    From Wordnik.com.  ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference

But it is not only a compositional challenge, Bach wants it to be touching and alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Life in Precision] Reference

I've always enjoyed the intensity of color and light, and the intelligent compositional play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Klein: New Art in the New Year] Reference

Milling, baking and some compositional characteristics of some triticale and parental species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

Reserve selection in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa: coping with high compositional turnover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Succulent Karoo] Reference

CONLEY: There's an even more literal aspect to Dave Brubeck's compositional approach, says son, Chris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Brubeck: Composing Ansel Adams] Reference

And however light-hearted much of the material may be Sting's compositional flair is much in evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Summoner's Tales] Reference

If you can, find one with wide-angle capability, which will give your child another compositional tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shopping tips: Buying a digital camera for a child] Reference

He studies igneous petrology for a living, analyzing Etnean lavas and determining their compositional makeup.    From Wordnik.com.  [24 September 1986] Reference

Most include Gilbert and George themselves-as angels, devils, disinterested observers or just compositional props.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping A Stiff Upper Lip] Reference

Mr. BEN MONDER (Guitarist, Los Guachos): He has one of the most personal compositional voices that I've encountered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guillermo Klein And His Band Of Devotees] Reference

I got a lot of help from Frederic Chopin, who inspired me with the brilliant compositional melodies he came up with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: A Postcard From California : A Conversation with The Beach Boys' Al Jardine] Reference

It isn't just the eloquence which has escaped our three man hit factory, it's the compositional verve and spark too.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Do Do Do De, De Da Da Da 7''] Reference

It's not that poets have to give up either the debates about poetics or their solitary compositional habits and products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?] Reference

So Brahms was able to incorporate the new kinds of compositional techniques and still keep this traditional symphonic form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brahms: Breaking the Mold Beethoven Built] Reference

Closely related to this compositional choice was another singular aspect of Mrs. Mahon's portrait, her direct outward glance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intimations of Mortality] Reference

"I liked that position where you don't have a lot of instrument karma or compositional karma that you have to honor," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [How This Band Leader Expanded the Terrain of Jazz] Reference

I'm going to enjoy the stuff I enjoy, even if I have concessions about it, most of which come from a compositional sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference

Just as important as the sonic textures Tori produces are the unexpected compositional resurrections she performs on the album.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tori Amos - Undented] Reference

And since Raphael created the cartoons for the tapestries, we might ask which compositional elements he intended to be accentuated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woven into the Fabric of the Church] Reference

Grant him a casual glance and we mainly notice his reliance on particular compositional devices and a particular cast of characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruits of His Labor] Reference

So new compositional techniques in the 20th century upped the ante a little bit, like American composer Henry Cowell in "The Banshee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Creating a Soundtrack to Evil] Reference

In a still life from 1953, he upsets his typical compositional positioning — objects set side by side — by placing them front to back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sights of Silence: Morandi's Enigmatic Vision] Reference

HANSEN: But when Haydn left school, he didn't have many compositional skills, his voice had cracked and he wasn't even, you know, that attractive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haydn: Classical Music's Cheerful Servant] Reference

(Soundbite of music) HANSEN: Chamber Music America has recognized you with a grant, so there must be something to this, you know, compositional mix that you're doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Childs and the Lush Jazz of 'Lyric'] Reference

(Soundbite of music) VITALE: What Schuller added to Move, Moon Dreams and Boplicity is new connecting material in a suite, preludes and interludes in a modern compositional style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Lovano, Returning to 'The Birth of the Cool'] Reference