Etymology

through-composed

Today it means: Of a song, composed so that each stanza may have different music, rather than the same being repeated for all of them. Full definition →

German durchkomponiert
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  1. German · calque ofdurchkomponiert
  2. English todaythrough-composed

Calque of German durchkomponiert.

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