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Musical composition may also refer to the process by which a piece of music is originated. People who practice composition are called composers. Useful skills in composition include writing musical notation, instrumentation, and handling musical ensembles ( orchestration).
In discussing the structure or organization of a musical work, the "composition" of that work is generally called its musical form. See also musical genre.
Important in much musical composition or musical form is the scale for the notes used, including the mode and tonicThe tonic is the first note of a musical scale, and in the tonal method of music composition it is extremely important. The triad formed on the tonic note, the tonic chord, is thus the most important chord. More generally, the tonic is the pitch upon whic note. Whereas when playing or reading music, only the key signatureIn musical notation, a key signature is a series of sharp symbols or flat symbols placed on the staff, designating notes that are to be played sharp or flat unless otherwise noted with an accidental. Key signatures are generally written immediately after (set of notes in scale) matters. In music using twelve tone techniques the tone rowIn music, a tone row or note row is an permutation, an arrangement or ordering, of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale. Tone rows are the basis of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique and serial music. A twelve tone or serial composition will tak is even more comprehensive a factor than a scale.