Compositio musica

Compositio musica est vel originalis res musica, vel structura rei musicae, vel ratio novae rei musicae creandae. Homines qui compositionem exerceant compositores appellantur.

Quamquam compositio hodie in tractatione cuiusque elementi musici (harmonia, melodia, forma, rhythmus, et timbre), consistere habetur, secundum Ioannem Beniaminum de Laborde (1780:2:12):

Compositio solum in duabus rebus consistit. Prima est nonnulli soni tam ordinati et dispositi . . . ut eorum series auri placeat. Hoc est quod antiqui melodia. appellabant. Secunda res est duos vel plures sonos eodem tempore claros facere tali modo ut eorum iunctura iucunda sit. Hoc est quod appellamus harmoniam, quae nomen compositionis solum meret.^[1]^[2]

↑ Anglice: "Composition consists in two things only. The first is the ordering and disposing of several sounds . . . in such a manner that their succession pleases the ear. This is what the Ancients called melody. The second is the rendering audible of two or more simultaneous sounds in such a manner that their combination is pleasant. This is what we call harmony, and it alone merits the name of composition."
↑ Forte, 1979:1.

[1] Anglice: "Composition consists in two things only. The first is the ordering and disposing of several sounds . . . in such a manner that their succession pleases the ear. This is what the Ancients called melody. The second is the rendering audible of two or more simultaneous sounds in such a manner that their combination is pleasant. This is what we call harmony, and it alone merits the name of composition."

[2] Forte, 1979:1.

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