Welcome
The New Music USA Online Library is a vast and comprehensive digital database that contains over 57,000 works
by more than 6,000 composers, and includes over 14,000 media samples (recordings and scores).
The Online Library was created by the American Music Center, and, after many evolutions, continues today under the guidance of New Music USA.
Artist Spotlight: Sorrel Hays
“The chief quality of Hays’s music is a joyously earthy mysticism." Kyle Gann, Village Voice
Though an ardent user of electroacoustics in the early stages of her career, Sorrel Hays has focused mainly on opera since the 1990s and brought her experience with extended vocal and instrumental techniques into the realm of dramatic stage music.
About Sorrel Hays's opera at New York City Opera VOX 2008, OUR GIRAFFE:
".. certain aspects of numerous works made this writer choose the following operas for her Favorites List: Our Giraffe (for the quirky vocalizations of Zarafa and the pleasing ...
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Please note: New Music USA does not maintain a physical collection of any kind. Any printed scores or manuscripts held by the American Music Center are now part of a special collection
at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Please contact the Music Division for more information.