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Contemporary Music - Thoughts & Ideas

2 Pointzero Music
21st Century Music
Aatonal
Alex Ross: The Rest is Noise
AtlantaComposers.com
Avant Music News
aworks:: "new" american classical music
Basically Modern
because they are dead (Paul Bailey)
beepSNORT
cacophonous.org
Common Tone
Composing Thoughts
The Detritus Review
Diaries of a Contemporary Music Lover
Discourses in Music
Dr.Dick's Blog
Eastside View
ESTWeb
Experimental Music Catalogue
Felsenmusik (Daniel Felsen)
Industrial Music Library
JMI - Journal of Music in Ireland
Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar
The Living Composer
Marcus Maroney - Sounds Like New
Mikropolyphonie
Modernclassical
Mozart in the Jungle (Blair Tindall)
The Muse at Sunset (Forrest Covington)
Music after 1968
Musical Contrarian: Horizons "83
NewMusicBox
New Music Connoisseur
New Music reBlog
Of Music and Men
The Omniscient Mussel
On Contemporary Music
On an Overgrown Path
Paris Transatlantic Magazine
Perspectives of New Music
PostClassic - Kyle Gann on Music After the Fact
Pretentious Bullshit: Adventures in Music (John Phastings)
The Rambler
Renewable Music (Daniel Wolf)
Resonate
The Rest is Noise see Alex Ross
Le Roi s'amuse
Sandow: Greg Sandow on the Future of Classical Music
Sequenza 21/The Contemporary Classical Music Portal
time4time
What I Like About… (Isaac Watras)
You Could Feel the Sky (Brendan McNamara)


Thoughts Archive
A Cannes Festival for New Music? (David Stevens, The International Herald Tribune)
Giving New Composers a Hearing (Time Magazine)
I Feel as if a See Music (Andras Lindner, Worldpress.org, HVG independent weekly)
Tanglewood Festival: Verdi a Villian (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
Will the Real Arnold Schoenberg Please Stand Up (Daniel Felsenfeld, Andante.com)
New Winds in Estonian Music (Kalevi Aho, Finnish Music Quarterly)
Does Contemporary Classical Music Have a Future? (James MacMillan, Guardian Unlimited)
New Composers of Tonal Classical Music, Part II (David Arditti, EP&M Online Essay)
Composers Mining the Music of Their Youth (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times)
Why We're Still Afraid of Schoenberg (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Music Acoustics and Contemporary Musical Composition (Gerald Bennett, Acoustics.org)
Top 12 Contemporary Music Albums of 2005-2006 (moteldemoka.com)
Tributes Paid to Late Composer, Alun Hoddinott (BBC News)
A Bold, Brash Cello Symphony (Michael Walsh, Time.com)
Stockhausen Gets a Second Wind (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Concert Become Memorial for Univesity of California Professor, Composer (Robert Taylor, Oakland Tribune)
Composer Emphasises Rhythm in Her Music (Matthew Balensuela, Terre Haute Tribune-Star)
Composers in Waiting, Well, Wait (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
Innovative Women Composers: A Silent Minority? (Montse Andreu, Amazings.com)
Sites and Sounds: Filling the new-music map (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)
The Next Wave of Finnish Comtemporary Music (Finnish Consulate General, Finland.org)
Urban Disaster: The Opera (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
The Geometry of Music (Michael D. Lemonick, Time.com)
Making the Case for Contemporary Music (Bob Shingleton, On an Overgrown Path)
Three Contemporary Composers at the Cabrillo Music Festival (Jason Serinus, Andante.com)
Chasing a Music that Didn't Exist (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
The Score - Four Innovative American Composers Sound Off: 25 Questions (Glenn Branca, The New York Times)
A Russian Composer's Path to Freedom (Karen Campbell, The Christian Science Monitor)
Contemporary Music in Evolution (The Eastside View Blog)
Birtwistle's Musical Creatures Lure Londoners (Norman Lebrecht, Bloomberg.com)
For Contemporary Music Times are Hard [January 8, 1991] (Allan Kozinn, The New York Times)
A Composer's Century (Philip Glass, Andante.com)
Review of the Year: Contemporary Music (Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph)
Thoroughly Modern Music (Randall Roberts, River Front Times)
Far From Music Capitals, an Ohio Conservatory Fosters Contemporary Sounds (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times)
When the Style is No Style (Michael Walsh, Time.com)
OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (Perfect Sound Forever)
Making it New (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)
Tan Dun Talks on Water (Brett Campbell, Andante.com)
The Magical Hidden Corners of Erik Satie (Matthew Westphal, Andante.com)
Inextinguishable: The Fiery Rhythms of Carl Nielsen (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)
Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet - The Day Music Went Mad (Norman Lebrecht, La Scena Musicale)
Blue Gaze: Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (Steve Hicken, The High Hat)
Whistling in the Dark: Schoenberg's Unfinished Revolution (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)
Proposal for a Short Book on Charles Ives and the American Imagination (by Richard Kostelanetz)
The Open Universe (by Jan Vriend)
The Beaten Path: A History of American Percussion Music (Nicole V. Gagne, NewMusicBox)


Online Books
Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women (James Briscoe, books.google.com)
Contemporary Composers On Contemporary Music (Elliott Schwartz and Barney Childs, books.google. com)
The Music of John Cage (James Pritchett, books.google.com)
The Music of Louis Andriessen (Yayoi Uno Everett, books.google.com)
The Music Makers (Deena & Bernard Rosenberg, books.google.com)
Settling Scores: A Life in the Margins of American Music (Joseph Franklin, books.google. com)
What's the Matter with Today's Experimental Music? Organized Sound Too Rarely Heard (Leigh Landy, books.google.com)
Debussy in Proportion (Roy Howat, books.google.com)
Debussy and His World (Jane Fulcher, books.google.com)
The Musical Idea and Logic, Technique and Art of Its Presentation (Arnold Schoenberg, books.google.com)