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: Richard Horner

Richard Edward Horner was born in St. Louis and began piano lessons at the age of 7. Immediately, he began plinking out John Williams by ear and improvising. Piano eventually gave way to guitar, which Richard spent an inordinate amount of time playing. At the age of 18, Richard left St. Louis to attend the University of Washington in Seattle. Once there, he was admitted to their top 10 computer science program in which he studied computational theory, digital logic, hardware design and programming with Martin Dickey, Larry Snyder, Jason Hartline, Rimli Sengupta and Alon Halevy (formerly Alon... 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.