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: sfSound

Winner of a 2007 ASCAP/CMA Award for Adventurous Programming, sfSound is a collective that creates and performs its own original music, commissions new work, performs avant-garde repertory and develops highly creative “radical transcriptions” of modern masterpieces. sfSound presents around 7 concerts a year in San Francisco, featuring music by an extraordinarily diverse range of composers, including premiers of over 30 new works written specifically for sfSo... Read more »

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.