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: Judith Cody

Thoughts on the meaning of poetry and music: "I have always felt that poetry and music emanate from identical primal forces within the human psyche expressing intensely compressed emotive and intellectual revelations in the dimensions of language and of music. These complex distillations should also evoke strong responses in the listener." -Cody- Background: Judith Cody is a national award winning composer, poet and author who combined the two disciplines in her biography and reference book, "Vivian Fine: A Bio-... 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.