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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: John Plant

JOHN PLANT was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1945. He studied composition with George Todd at Middlebury College (Vermont), where he also pursued intensive literary and classical studies, and with Bruce Mather and Charles Palmer at McGill University in Montreal. His music reflects my fascination with literature, languages and the human voice, and includes settings of Lorca, Sappho, E.E. Cummings, Göran Sonnevi, Ungaretti, Elizabeth Bishop, and many others, for combinations ranging from piano trio to full orchestra. His Yeats opera, The Shadowy Waters, was performed in Montreal in 2005. Recen... 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.