Definition of "through-composed" []

• Having a different melody for each strophe. (adjective)

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• "Two nights earlier, at the University of the Streets, she performed "Raging Waters, Red Sands," a mostly through-composed suite that blended shuo-chang , an ancient Chinese narrative form, with a resolutely downtown Manhattan musical vernacular."
• "Although the score to Bring It On: The Musical may sound as if it is through-composed no song list appears in the program, there were actually two different songwriting teams involved in the production."
• "Someone can pick a single attribute of art song and use that attribute to form his or her definition -- maybe it means more chromatic chord progressions, maybe it means through-composed as opposed to verse-chorus-verse-chorus."