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20th Century: 1900-Present - http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/eras/20thC.html Introduction to recent compositional work from Essentials of Music. Linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and living or recently deceased composer biographies.

A Musical Contrarian: Horizons '83 --- Since 1968, A New Romanticism? - http://www.geocities.com/bdrogin//Contrarian/horizon.html An analysis and critique of the New York Philharmonic contemporary music "festival."

American Music Center - http://www.amc.net/ Promotes creation and performance of American contemporary classical music.

BUBL - http://bubl.ac.uk/link/c/contemporarymusic.htm Contemporary music resource.

Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers (CPCC) - http://www.under.org/cpcc/ Includes lists of opportunities, competitions, faculty openings, upcoming concerts, and links to other music sites. Provides a newsletter and custom web pages for members.

Composition Today - http://www.compositiontoday.com Composition competitions, jobs, news, interviews, articles and other resources for composers.

Construal of Musical Process Architecture - http://www.maltedmedia.com/books/papers/s7-headb.html The author presents his method of musical composition.

Contemporary composition, theory, and classical guitar - http://www.freewebs.com/stanfunicelli/ Contemporary music composition, theory, and classical guitar, music scores, new music CD s, and articles and textbooks on guitar technique, new music composition, songwriting, and contemporary and traditional tonal theory.

Contemporary Music-making for Amateurs - http://coma.org COMA promotes participation, for musicians of all abilities, in contemporary music. Includes activities, library, and calls for pieces.

Experimental Music Catalogue - http://www.users.waitrose.com/~chobbs/ Events, articles, history, and links.

How Should We Listen to a New Piece of Music? - http://www.jamesromig.com/Timmons.html Essay read at a program of unaccompanied violin music contrasting listening to new works versus ones previously performed.

Israeli Composers - http://www.kith.org/jimmosk/israel.html Short history of composition in Israel and several composers mostly born in the early 20th century, with biographies of each.

Kunst der Fuge - 20th c. - http://www.kunstderfuge.com/900.htm Inclusive list of fugues and contrapuntal compositions written in the 1900's and links to classical musician pages.

List of 21st Century Classical Composers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_21st_century_classical_composers Wikipedia entry linked to articles on individual people with related internal references and external links.

Music at UCC: Web resources: Contemporary music: various composers - http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/music/online/contcomp.html Links to contemporary music resources from University College, Cork.

Musical Patterns - http://graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/compose.html Essay on ordering and structure in musical composition.

Resources for Composers and Contemporary Music - http://www.unt.edu/iawm/ResourceDatabase.htm Links to contemporary music sites.

Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies: Composers Bureau - http://www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/compaz.html Foundation established by the international music fraternity in 1974 maintains pages submitted by contemporary American composers or their representatives. Sorted alphabetically, or by instrument or ensemble.

The Music Division Collections - http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/mus.majcoll.html Musical documents donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, some of which are available for perusal online.

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