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Archives  |  Articles, a blog, and a book-in-progress by the music critic of The New Yorker  |  Alex Ross

20th Century: 1900-Present - 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.

Musical Patterns -  An essay on patterns in musical composition transformations, mathematical groups, and the nature of musical substance  | Bill Hammel

Paul James' Modern Music Review - A review guide to 20th Century Classical Music  |  Paul James

Power pianist: Anthony de Mare channels contemporary music through his passion for physical fitness  |  Joseph Dalton

ECM's New Series is dedicated to highlighting the works of contemporary classical masters. Here, you'll find critically acclaimed performances from Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, and Meredith Monk, as well as lesser-heard gems from Eleni Karaindrou and Veljo Tormis, to name a few. 

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Sites for Composers & Sites by Composers  |  Visit the Kalvos & Damian Home Page to explore the life and work of more than 100 composers, listen to 200 music and interview clips, view photographs and read essays and biographies, and details about new music you can't find anywhere else  | 

I Write The Music  |  alphabetical listings  | 

New Music links page  |   alphabetical pages  | 

alphabetical listings | resources  |  participate  |  links  |  Organizations/Ensembles  | 

alphabetical | includes 20th C. composers  | 

Modern (160)  |  huge alphabetical page

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Information center for new music and the media arts |  electronic music  |  new music  |  calendar  |  media arts  |  new music directory  |  Meet The Artists  |  recent listings  |  browse CDs by subject  | list of CD labels  |  MP3 samples  |  books et al  |  selected audio hardware- software | 

Toronto Experimental Music  |  Free Improvisation  |  Sound Art | archive | links | SoundList is an E-mail newsletter devoted to nnouncements of free-improvisation, experimental music and sound art events in the Toronto area  |

alphabetical page  |  some composers have multiple links  |  Ken Davies.ne t | 

An Internet-based service organization for composers  |  dedicated to providing a single, comprehensive resource  |  opportunities  |  competitions  |  faculty openings  |  grants  |  members can disseminate information about their own works and activities  | 

Welcome to GR MUSIC  |  This is THE WEB SITE dedicated to covering and continuously updating nearly everything in 20th and 21st Century Art Music  |  New Music Resources  |  Composers and Musicians  |  The new 21st Century revolution in the delivery and exchange of cross-platform music audio files | Useful Info  | 

A place within ArtsWire to access information about new music and discuss issues concerning composers, performers and presenters of experimental music | 

scroll to bottom of page for site listings | sites owned by living composers | professional  |  amateur  | 

Recorded Anthology of American Music  |  Our mission is to record the music of American composers that would not otherwise be represented in the catalogues of the commercial recording companies  | 

Basic Repertoire List | 20th Century Repertoire | | Barber | Bartók | Bax | Berg | Bernstein | Bloch | Brian | Britten | Busoni | Copland | Davies | Duruflé | Enesco | Gershwin | Ginastera | Górecki | Hanson | Harris, | Hindemith | Holst | Honegger | Ibert | Ives | Janá?ek | Khachaturian | Kodály | Mahler | Martin | Martin? | Menotti | Messiaen | Milhaud | Mompou | Nielsen | Orff | Piston | Poulenc | Prokofieff | Respighi | Rodrigo | Rubbra | Vaughan Williams | Satie | Schmidt | Schoenberg | Schuller | Schuman | Scriabin | Sessions | Shostakovich | Sibelius | Simpson | Strauss | Stravinsky | Szymanowski | Thompson | Thomson | Tippett | Tournemire | Tubin | Turina | Villa-lobos | Walton | Weill | Zwilich |

looking for manuscripts that deal with music in a variety of challenging and original ways. They seek a mix of titles and formats, ranging from studies by a single author to symposia treating a given repertoire or aspect of music from differing points of view  |  articles & reviews  |  bibliographies  |  teaching resources  |  conference reports  | 

The composers in this section all composed their music during the last century. Some of them are still composing today. Seems simple enough. But over the last 100 years, ideological changes and technical advances have affected not only the way that music is enjoyed but also the way that it is composed. These composers have all explored new and uncharted territory in terms of tone and structure, often abandoning -- or combining -- preconceived notions about the nature of classical music | 

American Composers Orchestra is the world’s only orchestra dedicated to the infinite variety of  American music. ACO performs at Carnegie Hall  |  concerts  |  reading sessions  |  Improvise  |  Music Factory  |  orchestra tech | coming to america  |  sonidos de las Américas  |  aco history  | activities  |  artistic leadership  |  commissions  |  composers performed  |  support & donations  |  recordings  |  press excerpts| 

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kalvos.org  |  New Contemporary Music Radio Show Cybercasts Interviews Essays and Music  | 

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Artists / Composer Directories  |  lots oif great links | new music portal  | 

News  |  Festivals and concerts  |  Music week  |  Interpreters  |  Competition  |  Publications  |  Gaudeamus Information  |  Month  |  agenda  |  Library  | 

dedicated to the promotion and performance of Australian new music  |  The Network is a collection of impressive and passionate contemporary music ensembles and organisations  | 

20th Century Music / Emory University  |  The ARChive of Contemporary Music  |  GR Music: New Art Music  |  NewMusNet  |  Other  |  Minds (dedicated to new and unusual music)  | 

CNMAT is a music research, teaching, recording and performance facility located in the hills just north of the UC Berkeley campus  |  There are many ways the public, composers, musicians, researchers, professors and students from around the world can be involved at CNMAT  |  Calendar  |  People  |  Site Map  |  Research  |  Courses  |  Showcase  |  Download  | 

is a leading resource for everyone interested in 20th and 21st century new music in the UK  |  The Collection  |  links  |  Composer representation  |  concerts  |  news & features  |  projects  | 

Fabrizio Ferrari's Musicians Page  |  Composition links  |  Free Sheet Music  |  Musician Board  |  Musicians List  |  Music Links & Books  |  Musical Software  | 

Composing links  |  20+ links  | 

alphabetical list of composers  |  includes 20th C  composers

composer resources  | 

Alphabetical Composer Bios  | 

20th Century composers  |  Voice of the Shuttle  | 

I Write The Music  | 

Modern Period Composers  | 

contemporary composers  |  very long alphabetical page  |

Concert Music  |  composers  | 

contemporary music links  | 

composers by country  | 

Links to web sites of interest to the new music community  | 

Alphabetical List  |  Categories  |  Music for Young People  |  Pan Pipes Annual Composer Updates  |  Composers Bureau Archives  |  Search  | 

Late Twentieth Century  | 

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contemporary composers  | 

Italian music composers, musicians & composition  | 

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Canadian composers  | 

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Most of these biograhies are associated with one or several MIDI files. Why not MP3? Because MP3 is much more heavy. MIDI files do not contain music ; they just contain the instructions to make your computer able to play music. This involves that the performance may be mechanistic, but a couple of seconds will be enough for you to listen and to have an idea of the genre of music. In this chapter, we don't deal with performance but with writing  | 

contains information about American composers that have been active since 1980. This information is organized into two lists. The Composer List provides for each composer: (1) year of birth and death (2) a link to the composer's home page, (3) a link to the New Grove Dictionary* online entry for the composer, (4) a list of the composer's works since 1980, and (5) other relevant links. The Composition List isolates the work list information in the database, allowing you to sort and search for compositions by year and title. The Keywords and Categories links given below provide a few means of exploring the database by topic  | 

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An Alphabetical List  | 

We are a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world  | 

international links  |  composer links  | 

Contemporary Composers  |  Contemporary Music  |  A Web Directory  | 

Composers  |  MacArthur Fellows in Music Composition  (1) |  Pulitzer Prize Winners  (5) |  Organizations  (16)  |  Projects  (2) | Atonality  (3) | Electronic Music  (14) | Integral  |  Serialism  (18)  |  Just Intonation  (1)  |  Minimalism  (6)  |  The New York School  (2)  |  Twelve-Tone  (4)  |  alphabetical  | 

The Logos Foundation is Flanders' unique professional organisation for the promotion of new musics and audio related arts by means of new music production, concerts, performances, composition, technological research projects and other contemporary music related activities | home page loads up attractive midi file  | 

Contemporary Composers List  |  List of 20th and 21st Centuries Composers  | 

22 Contemporary Australian Composers  | 

emphasizing experimental methods in contemporary music and its allied arts and sciences  | 

promoting new music | composer opportunities  |  new adventures in composition  |  shortlist  |  new notes  |  sound inventors  |  playground  |  links  | 

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Contemporary Composers | Welcome to our new section on living composers | we hope you enjoy the works here  |  Some of them are available for download, others are in extract only | In all cases these are only a small sample of their current works  |  You can contact the composers through us if you are interested in buying or commissioning further works  | 

Resources for Composers and Contemporary Music  |  Resources for Composers in the USA  |  International Resources for Composers  |  Composer Collectives  |  Copyright and Licensing Resources  |  Related Resouces  |  Internet Resources  | 

Composition: Composers: Contemporary  |  Organizations (15) | Projects (3)  |  Links (19)  |  Electronic Music (10)  |  Just Intonation (1)  |  MacArthur Fellows in Music Composition (1)  |  Minimalism (6)  |  New York School, The (2)  |  Pulitzer Prize Winners  (5)  |  Twelve-Tone (4)  | 

Contemporary Music  |  the House of Bärenreiter has taken a special interest in publishing contemporary music and promoting new composers  | 

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Contemporary Composers on ECM  | 

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This directory brings together the internet addresses of composers of contemporary music who work in Germany or who were born here  | 

 "What we hope to do here is to build a reader-created community/encylopedia of new music composers, performers, history, schools, important works--you literally name it. "  | 

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Contemporary Composers  |  North America  | 

5:15 Internet Resources  |  Contemporary music   | 

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Other sites with lists of composers  |  Opera/vocal sites  |  Sites with MIDI/sound files  |  General (classical) music sites  |  Classical music organisations  |  Orchestras and other performers  |  Sheet music/Publishers  |  Other interesting sites  | 

New Music from Indiana U. |  MP3 files  | 

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