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: Robert Paterson

Hailed by the press as "highly gifted," having "creative powers working on a higher plane" and writing "exuberant and rhythmically vital music marked by energy and a wonderful sense of color," Composer Robert Paterson's richly colorful, wildly eclectic and intensely rhythmic music is increasingly in demand by musicians and audiences alike. Influenced by the past and present as well as visual art, nature, and machines, Paterson's recent compositions are inspired by everything from the changing seasons, crashing waves and Dali's melting clocks to animated cartoons and the life of New York Mets B... 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.