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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: Robert Grove Hughes

Bob now devotes his time to composing Silenus' Antiphonary after a full career as composer, conductor, bassoonist and champion of new music, with special emphases on American, Japanese and Italian new music. As co-founder of the Cabrillo Music Festival with Lou Harrison, conductor of the Arch Ensemble for Experimental Music, founder-director of the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra and composer-conductor of many other music special concerts, music film and video projects, he developed programs that included ground-breaking commissions, reco... 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.