Musical composition

original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental

thumb |Victor Wooten soloing on the electric bass guitar

cryptogrammatic sequence of musical notes

characteristic, dimension, or element taken as a part or component of music

Sonorism (Polish: Sonoryzm) is an approach to musical composition associated with a number of notable Polish composers. The scholar Józef Michał Chomiński coined the term "sonoristics" (Polish: sonorystyka) to describe the urge to explore purely sonic phenomena in composition, and from this term derived "sonorism" to describe an avant-garde style in Polish music of the 1960s that focused on timbre . As a movement, sonorism was initiated in the 1950s in the avant-garde of Polish music . Music that emphasises sonorism as a compositional approach tends to focus on specific characteristics and qua

music for which the composition or performance is determined by chance

manner of setting words to music