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Here are some links that will help you:

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_classical_music

2)  a) https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/apr/23/welcome-new-contemporary-music-guide

b) https://www.theguardian.com/music/series/a-guide-to-contemporary-classical-music

3) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Composing-Contemporary-Music-Students-Guide/dp/1845214072

4) https://www.berklee.edu/berklee-today/summer-2010/contemporary-music

However, my personal opinion is that you don't just deliberately choose to compose in a "contemporary" style. You just follow your compositional inspirations and go where they lead you. But of course, it will help to be familiar with the different styles and what they entail.

 

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In my opinion (I love writing contemporary music) you need first a strong base on tonal and classical harmony. Also, it's good to know how to work with motive manipulation.

Then you have to study the several languages:

1. Triadic extended harmony: chords with ninths, elevenths, thirteenths

2. Impressionism. Parallelism, chord planning, non-functional triadic harmony

3. Harmony by 4ths/5ths, by 2nds/7ths and clusters, combination

4. Non-serial atonality and pitch class sets

5. Serial tonality and dodecaphonism

6. Alternative scales, modes.

7. Messiaen. modes of limited transposition, new chords,

9. Bartók: extended chromatic functional axis system

10. Polyrhythm, polymeter, polytempo

11. Extended techniques in instruments.

12. New Forms.

and etc, etc, etc....

The book by Vincent Persichetti is a good start point.

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Thank you for given my some advice.. 
Can i ask.. Is this contemporary music or not ? or pop music ? 

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22 minutes ago, Hidetoshi Guen said:

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It's contemporary in that you wrote it in a modern time, but, no, it doesn't really follow the conventions on the 20th or 21st century harmonic techniques.

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