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: Lori Laitman

Lori Laitman is one of America's most prolific and widely performed composers of vocal music. She has composed over 200 songs, setting the poetry of classical and contemporary poets from Emily Dickinson to Richard Wilbur, and has also created a unique body of music commemorating the Holocaust. "It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music." (The Journal of Singing) In June 2004, Cleveland Opera premiered Laitman’s one-act opera Come to Me In Dreams. Laitman recently... 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.