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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: Robert Baksa

Robert Baksa was born in NYC in 1938. His family moved to Arizona when he was a child and lived in Tucson until his graduation from the University of Arizona with a BA in Composition. He returned to NYC where he worked as a music copyist until 1999 when he relocated to Kinderhook in Columbia County, NY. He has composed nearly 600 works in all forms with an emphasis on Chamber Music and Vocal works. Choral pieces published in the 1960s are still a regular part of the repertory as are his Art Songs on poems of Emily Dickinson which have been favorably compared to Aaron Copland well known set... Read more ยป

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.