compositional

adjective

com·​po·​si·​tion·​al ¦käm-pə-¦zish-nəl 

-¦zi-shə-nᵊl

: of or having to do with composition

compositional laws

often employed Southeast Asian scales as a compositional resource

the compositional arrangement with horizontals, verticals, diagonals

—Eva M. Neumeyer

compositionally adverb

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