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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: Martin Halpern

In 1994 Martin Halpern retired from an active career as playwright, poet, critic and professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University to devote himself full-time to what had long been a part-time occupation: music composition. Since then he has earned a Master's degree in Composition at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, and there have been more than eighty performances of his chamber and vocal works and fifteen productions of his chamber operas in the New York area. He has won nine ASCAP-PLUS awards and eleven Meet the Composer grants, and from 1997 to 2009 was concerts direct... 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.