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: David Del Tredici

Composer and pianist David Del Tredici is generally recognized as the father of the Neo-Romantic movement in music. Trained in serial techniques, his early works, many of them settings of poems by James Joyce, reflect quirky individuality in the handling of those orthodox musical materials. Soon, however, he broke away from the language of his teachers to explore the fantasy world of Lewis Carroll, and in so doing, developed his own unique voice – a rich musical idiom of color, humor and sentiment – worked out on vast orchestral canvases of tonal sound. His fascination with Lewis Carroll's “Al... 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.