COMPOSITION

In Law, an agreement made between the owner of lands and the parson, with the consent of the ordinary and the patron, that such lands shall be discharged from the payment of tithes, by reason of some land or other real recompence given to the parson In satisfaction thereof. Such an agreement, since the 13 Ellz. c. 10., is not good for a longer term than three lives or twenty-one years. Composition signifies also the agreement between a bankrupt after his last examination and nine tenths of his creditors for the satisfaction of their claims, and has the effect of superseding the fiat of bankruptcy. Composition. In the Fine Arts, that combination of the several parts, whereby a subject is agreeably presented to the mind, each part being subordinate to the whole. See Invention. Composition. In Music, the art of disposing and arranging musical sounds into airs, songs, ., either in one or more parts, for voices or instruments or both. Zarlino defines it to be the art of joining and combining concords and discords together, Avhich are the matter of music. COMPOSITION OF FORCES or [s. 278]