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: Raul Quines

Raul Salamanca Quines is a multi-faceted composer whose works are as eclectic as they are dramatic, creating a musical landscape of unrestrained spatial design. Integrated onto Mr. Quines’s palette are stylistic elements derived from the renaissance period to the impressionistic, neo-classical, avant-garde, world music and rock ‘n’ roll epochs, and the pastiche of modern-time’s diverse music environments. He draws his inspirations from the multiplicity of life’s abstract and concrete offerings, as he thinks, sees and hears it to be (birth, philosophy, psychology, art, movement, sound, musical ... Read more »

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.