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: Augusta Read Thomas
For sound samples of many complete works, please paste this address in your web browser’s
main address field: (Do not paste it into GOOGLE, for instance)
http://idisk.mac.com/augustareadthomas-Public
Find the work you want to hear, then click the small downward arrow-should take only 1 minute to download.
The password that you may need is: GUSTYFROMCHICAGO
Augusta Read Thomas (born in 1964 in Glen Cove, New York) was the Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from May 1997 through June 2006. She was an assistant then associate professor of composition at the...
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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.