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	<title>Music Composition Resources</title>
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		<title>New Music Needs Your Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Music Center (AMC) and American Composers Forum (ACF) have teamed up with Columbia University&#8217;s Research Center for Arts and Culture to conduct the first major study of living composers.  The study aims to gather important data to guide our efforts in better serving and advocating for composers of all styles and backgrounds. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/new-music-needs-your-voice/</link>
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		<title>Fifth House Ensemble - Young Composer Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fifth House Ensemble announces its first annual Young Composer Competition:
Deadline: Postmarked by May 1, 2008
Application Fee: $40
Prize: The grand prize winner will have his/her piece programmed and performed on our 2008-2009 subscription series in downtown Chicago, and will receive a professional recording of the live performance.  A special prize will be awarded to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/fifth-house-ensemble-young-composer-competition/</link>
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		<title>Doggiebox: New Beta Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zygoat has recently released a new beta version of their drum machine application, Doggiebox. Ben Kennedy developer of Doggiebox made the announcement some days ago through the Zygoat Doggiebox discussion list. 
Changes in this build (1F2) since version 1.3.1 (1E15):

Now a Universal Binary (will run natively on Intel-based Macs).  
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/doggiebox-new-beta-release/</link>
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		<title>The 2008 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(We would like to thank Mr. Zack Browning for letting us know about this)
 &#8220;The Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award is an international composers&#8217; competition held annually in memory of Mr. Martirano who was a faculty member at the University of Illinois from 1963 to 1995. Since its inception in 1996, the competition has attracted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/2008-salvatore-martirano-memorial-composition-award/</link>
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		<title>Karlheinz Stockhausen dies at 79</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An icon of contemporary classical music, Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away on December 5th 2007 at his home in Kuerten-Kettenberg. Stockhausen and his music have been both controversial and influential. He composed a total 362 works, including the world&#8217;s longest opera, Licht, a sequence of seven pieces - one for every day of the week. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/karlheinz-stockhausen-dies/</link>
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		<title>Feed Your Doggiebox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had heard about Doggiebox some months ago from a friend,  and at the time I had the intention of finding more about it, but after a couple of days, I forgot to do so. Until a week ago&#8230;
Doggiebox is a drum machine application for Mac OS X that lets you create and manipulate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/feed-your-doggiebox-drum-machine/</link>
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		<title>The Orchestra: An Online User&#8217;s Manual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many positive aspects of the internet, is having so much information readily available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and reachable from any part of the world. If you are always on the look for orchestration or instrumentation information, you are definitely going to like the following website. &#8220;The Orchestra: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/the-orchestra-an-online-users-manual/</link>
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		<title>Music Composition Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are very excited to introduce Composersnewpencil&#8217;s music composition link directory. If you are a composer, songwriter, etc., please feel free to submit your site(s) or your favorite music composition related website(s). Our intention is to build a targeted and quality content directory. All links will be personally reviewed for consideration. The main categories include: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/music-composition-directory/</link>
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		<title>John Tusa Interview with Elliott Carter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Elliott Carter is America&#8217;s leading composer, though as he insists, he is a composer who happens to be American. Born in 1908 Carter has been increasingly recognised as a master of closely worked, disciplined, often passionate, sometimes violent music which he is now composing with a growing facility. As a figure who spans the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/john-tusa-interview-with-elliott-carter/</link>
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		<title>Create Digital Music Giveaway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The guys at Create Digital Music (a great blog and community site on digital music making) are having a big giveaway with over US$4,000 of hardware and software. All you have to do is fill out an online form with your information for a chance to win (unfortunately only US residents are eligible to win, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.composersnewpencil.com/create-digital-music-giveaway/</link>
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