The phrase "a composition that was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a piece of writing or music that existed or was created in the past.
Example: "The professor analyzed a composition that was written during the Romantic period."
Alternatives: "a piece that was" or "a work that was".
"I'm thinking of Quartet for the End of Time [Olivier Messiaen], a composition that was written in a concentration camp.
Thus, our data are consistent with a model wherein ORFan genes emerged with a composition that was similar to the random composition of the genome.
The 2008 vintage was positively correlated with anthocyanins and flavanones, whereas the 2006 vintage showed a composition that was intermediate between 2007 and 2008.
The HFD (Table 1) was prepared using lard in a composition that was exactly the same as previously used by Arçari et al. [ 4] and based on the AIN-93G purified diet [ 17].
"We have developed a line of mustard oil with a composition that is even better than olive oil," he said.
The Composition Mechanism: The SC might have a composition that is more conducive to reaching an agreement than Congress as a whole.
It's a feet feat!" Johnson often sounds like a composition that's all trills and no melody, but she can be joltingly insightful.
Perhaps most magical of all is The Coupling, where Henry brings a searing, aching, metal-on-metal beauty to a composition that is completely and wonderfully abstract.
Her work reveals architecture's inner intensity by materialising the phenomenon of light, texture and density, all within a composition that is wholly conceptual".
Above is the library, where discrete cylindrical forms make a composition that is simultaneously a caricature and abstraction of residential design.
At a given temperature and pressure, vapours over a boiling mixture have a composition that is a function of the vapour pressures of the components of the mixture.
