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the quiet art of deciding what belongs together and what gets cut
means The act or result of putting parts together into a whole — whether that's an essay, a piece of music, a photograph, or the chemical makeup of a substance.
from From Latin 'componere,' to put together — built from 'com-' (together) and 'ponere' (to place), the same 'ponere' that gives us 'position,' 'compose,' and 'deposit.' It reached English through Old French 'composicion.' At root it simply names the placing of things side by side until they form one thing.
- rule of thirds
- Eyes drift to off-center, not dead middle
- chemical sense
- Air is roughly 78% nitrogen, mostly ignored
- music origin
- Latin componere means to put together
- negative space
- Empty areas carry as much weight as subjects
beethoven's ninth symphony — premiered vienna 1824, final movement features schiller's 'ode to joy'
mozart's requiem k626 — unfinished at mozart's 1791 death, completed by franz xaver sussmayr
the beatles' abbey road — 1969 album, medley side b contains multiple composed segments stitched together