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: Jason Freeman

Jason Freeman breaks down conventional barriers between composers, performers, and listeners, using cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to turn audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators. Freeman’s works have been featured in The New York Times, on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and online at USA Today, Wired, and Billboard, which called Network Auralization for Gnutella (N.A.G.) “an example of the Web’s mind-expanding possibilities.” They have been exhibited and performed at the NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), the Viper Festival (Basel... 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.