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MIKE SPRINGER/Gloucester Daily Times.
Fifth graders Trenten Whittemore, left, and Aidan Parker learn how to use musical composing software Thursday during music class at Essex Elementary School. Their teacher, Richard Carpenter, is showing the students how to use Sibelius composing software to help them learn how music is structured and to reinforce their music reading skills. Also, Carpenter said, composing "is one of the few things we can do that's tangible, that they can create and go back to."

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