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crl-16098	Dickey, Timothy J.	Barry Cooper. Child Composers & Their Works: A Historical Survey. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. 216p. alk. paper, $65 (ISBN 9780810869110). LC2009-000236.	2010	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1275	59	54	Many child composers have early training at the keyboard, which helps to foster their early musical experi- mentation. Conse- quently, many of Cooper’s conclusions in the central chapter on “common charac- teristics” of child composers are difficult to substantiate: what does it mean, for instance, that, among this particular sample of musically important people who composed as children, so many of them became composers as adults?	cache/crl-16098.pdf	txt/crl-16098.txt