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: Nicholas Chase

Los Angeles based composer Nicholas Frances Chase holds an MFA in Composition - New Media and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts from whom he is the first recipient of the President’s Distinguished Alumnus Award for Recent Alumni in Music (Fall 2000). He has studied under Stephen L. Mosko, Bunita Marcus, Morton Subotnick, David Rosenboom, Anne LeBaron and Mary Jane Leach among others. In 1999 Mr. Chase studied Arabic Classical Music with Ziad Buni, director of the Conservatory of Arabic Classical Music– Aleppo, in Syria. His small ensemble chamber works have been perfor... 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.