Composition

Gathers individually authored musical works with a named composer and a fixed score or setting: orchestral and chamber works, ballet scores, tone poems, choral and liturgical settings, cantatas, coronation anthems and staged musicals that take a religious figure, text, rite or theme as their subject. A member belongs here for being a discrete, attributed composition rather than a recording, a collection, or an anonymous body of traditional repertoire; it is held apart from the hymnals and songs gathered separately and from the field recordings and albums that capture a performance rather than the work itself.