Word of the Day:
collection
What It Means
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
The activity of collecting.
The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
Collection in Context
“In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + -ion.
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