COMPOSITION

In Law, an agreement made between tli'- parson, wil ihe consent of the ordinary from the and payment the patron,of tithes,that" such by reason lands shall of some be discharged land or e given to the parson iu satisfaction an agreement, since the 13 Eliz. c. 10., is Dot good bra looser term than three lives or twenty-one I ' mij>u<iiiiim signifies also the agreement between a bankrupt after his last examination and nine tenths of bit creditors for the satisfaction of their claims, and has Img the fiat of bankruptcy. Composition. In the Fine Arts, that combination of al parts, wherebv a subject is agreeably presented to the mind, each part being subordinate to the whole.! sVENTION. Composition. In Music, the art of disposing and arranging musical sounds into airs, songs, dec, either in one parts, for voices or instruments, or both. Zarlino defines it to he the art of joining and combining concords ugether, which are the matter of music. COMPOSITION OP FORCES or [s. 281]