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texture

The vertical density of a musical composition. While the nature of the texture is often one of the main distinguishing features of a work, particularly in 20th-century music, variety of texture is an important component of a work's progression and life in virtually all music.


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Not only were the texture and pattern uncommonly beautiful, but the clothes which were made of the stuff possessed this wonderful property that they were invisible to anyone who was not fit for his office, or who was unpardonably stupid.
Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.
The monotonous and vibrating note was destined to grow into the intimacy of the heart, pass into blood and bone, accompany the thoughts and acts of two full decades, remain to haunt like a reproach the peace of the quiet fireside, and enter into the very texture of respectable dreams dreamed safely under a roof of rafters and tiles.
 
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