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: JoyEllen O'Brien

JoyEllen O’Brien discovered her drive towards composition at age twenty, with no prior musical training. Inspired by music's close marriage between structural thought and performing art, she shifted her studies from mathematics and theater to music. She rapidly soaked up sounds and ideas from the twentieth century during a year of study at Oxford. Two years later, the Sarah Lawrence College Orchestra premiered her first orchestral work, Essay No. 1: into our first world. The new music scene of New York City drew her from her native Massachusetts after the completion of her degree. She sp... 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.