Composition links

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Virtual Sheet Music - To download classical sheet music instantly on your computer! Here you can request any music you want!
Look Sheet Music - Sheet Music Search Engine Search for your sheet music on multiple websites with just one click! Very useful resource.

CPCC - Center of Promotion of Contemporary Composers
Classical and Opera Composers Resources
Composer's Diner
For Composers
Classical Composers Database
Downloadable Music Site
Enciclopedia Elettronica dei Compositori
Resources for Young Composers
Tangatamanu - Computer Music e Video
World Wide Web Virtual Library--Classical Music
Zoltan Paulinyi - UFMG
Gaudeamus- promotors of contemporary music
ASCAP: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Associazione Compositori 2
Berkeley Music Center
National Music Publishers
New Indiana University
SCALA (Società Compositori)
TALENTI - LA BANCA DATI DELLO SPETTACOLO
Gaudeamus Foundation, Amsterdam
Recorder Player, Composer, Arranger & Conductor
Sergio Maltagliati - Composer. Very interesting page about the study of sound-image. See it!
Leslie Wagle - New Age and Romantic Piano Pieces and Free Sheet Music
UNISONG: Passport For A Musical Planet
The MuttMusic consortium
A collective of composers whose music is performed throughout the world. This is a site for listening, discussion, composing, and exploration.
Songwriting Consultants, Ltd. Interesting site: help songwriters/artists polish and market their work.

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Sheet Music Editor
Great for fine-tuning hand-written music notes. Easily add a title.. Compose, Add an official copyright statement and print.

FlexiMusic Audio Editor
Advanced Audio Editor suitable for all musicians and composers.

Million Dollar Music Composition
Music composition within a remote team of composers, musicians, songwriters, networked together using the Internet: Own a Note of Internet History! Increase your website traffic!

Classical Music Forums and Information
New starting community for classical music lovers and musicians.

Martijn Hooning Composition and Music Theory
Composition: recordings and sample scores; music theory

Pianopedia
Search engine performing flexible queries on a database of piano works from the classical piano repertoire.

Gal ziv - composer
Everything about new music composer Gal Ziv; His latest projects and recordings, music samples, Red Pepper production studio, list of his works and more

Sweden Songs
Music publishing

Musica Presente
Most complete and updated website about Spanish contemporary music & musicians. Also a place to chat, and you can get free tickets to Spanish music concerts all over the world !

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^{Recommendeds Related Books:}

Scores:
From Virtual Sheet Music (instantly downloadable):
A.Ferrari: "Fate" - for string trio (great contemporary composer!)
Blank Sheet Music - for write music!

New Books at Amazon:
"The Four and the One: In Praise of String Quartets" by David Rounds
"Shostakovich: A Life Remembered" by Elizabeth Wilson
"The Urbanization of Opera: Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century" by Anselm Gerhard; translated by Mary Whittall
"Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance" by Leon Plantinga


Other Books:
From Amazon:
Counterpoint in Composition : The Study of Voice Leading -- Felix Salzer, Carl Schachter
Creating Melodies : A Songwriter's Guide to Understanding, Writing and Polishing Melodies-- Dick Weissman
Counterpoint : The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century by Knud Jeppesen
Study of Counterpoint by Johann Joseph Fux
Structural Hearing Tonal Coherence in Music (Two Volumes Bound As One) by Felix Salzer
The Incredible Sound Machine : Unleash the Sound Capabilities of Your MacIntosh Computer/Book and Diskby Mark Andrews
Composition in the Classroom : A Tool for Teaching by J Wiggins
Composing for the Jazz Orchestra by William Russo
Composing Music : A New Approach by William Russo
Theory and Practice of Composition by Alfred Mann
Jazz Composition and Orchestration by William Russo
Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan M. Kostka
Sound and Structure (The Resources of Music Series) by John Paynter
Techniques of the Contemporary Composer by David Cope
Advanced Techniques for Film Scoring/Book and Compact Disc by Earle Hagen
The Art of Writing Music by John Cacavas
The Art of Writing Music : A Practical Book for Composers and Arrangers of Instrumental, Choral and Electronic Music As Applied to Publication, Films by John Cacavas, Steve Kaplan
Composing for the Films by Theodor Adorno
Composing the Music of Africa : Composition, Interpretation, and Realization by Malcolm Floyd
David Baker's Arranging and Composing, for the Small Ensemble : Jazz & Rock by David Baker
Experiments in Musical Intelligence (The Computer Music and Digital Audio, Vol 12) by David Cope
How to Compose Music : A Simple Guide for the Amateur to the Composition of Melodies and to Their Effective Harmonization by Henry