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: Michael Robinson

Michael Robinson has received international praise for compositions that combine computer instruments and ragas. A musical visionary and technical wizard, Robinson engenders performances by programming a meruvina to play his fully notated scores in real time, voicing each work with sound samples of acoustic instruments from world music cultures using Indian tunings. The mesmerizing originality of Robinson's music sets him apart from his contemporaries, inspiring one reviewer to write, "Robinson is following an iconoclastic path much like Schoenberg and Cage before him." His music has also e... 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.