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In a signature compositional device, he has the flowers pushing in from the margins of the page, leaving most of the center empty.

Your eye, however, is guided as if it were a skillfully controlled pinball, often by Plastic Man himself acting as a compositional device.

This compositional device is more subtle and often more pleasing aesthetically than symmetrical balance, for its effect is less apparently contrived and more varied.

He said he found the emotional high points by using a unifying motive: those haunting three little notes from "Maria" that hang on the tritone interval -- a favorite compositional device of Franz Listz.

This compositional device gave a sweep to early colonial manuscripts, such as the daily-life section of the Codex Mendoza and the monthly-ritual section of the Codex Borbonicus that was commissioned by the Spanish authorities in the 1520s.

Noct (In the Dark), a knotty yet fashionable string quartet in which darkness is a compositional device; in Max Richter's "eight-hour lullaby" Sleep; and in a dramatic staging last month of Brahms's German Requiem at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival.

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Some of the compositional devices behind these pieces are old hat to American modern dance choreographers.

If your subject happens to be the dislocation of people and their suffering, then those people and that suffering become your compositional devices.

Mr. Brubeck experimented with time signatures and polytonality and explored musical theater and the oratorio, baroque compositional devices and foreign modes.

In the six years that Giacchino has been working on "Lost," he has mobilized an army of compositional devices, from the harshly dissonant to the plaintively lyrical, helping to keep millions of people addicted to an often delirious plot.

He explained that "Two Boys" marked both an ending and a beginning, featuring compositional devices he no longer uses as well as ones that the opera gave him the first opportunity to explore.

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