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: Douglas Knehans

Douglas Knehans has been writing music for over thirty years for all media from orchestra and opera to electronic, dance and vocal music. He has trained as an orchestra musician, a composer, theorist and music technologist. He has been a successful music administrator in Australia and the United States and since 2008 he has been the Thomas James Kelly Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Browse the site and get to know more about his unusual compositional voice that The Washington Post calls ‘beautiful’ and ‘exciting’ and the Miami Herald describe... 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.