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: John Turner

John Turner has composed for performance, theater, and numerous films, including Sam Zalutsky’s You Belong to Me, featuring the powerhouse string band Ethel, and the award-winning short Passengers (Special Jury Prize, Deauville Film Festival, France). John was chosen in 2008 to participate in the New Dramatist/Nautilus Music Theater workshop and in 2007 as finalist for a Sacatar Institute residency fellowship in Bahia, Brazil. Awarded an artist residency by the La Napoule Art Foundation in southern France in 2005, John was awarded the Chorus & Ensemble Composition Reading in Minneapolis by t... 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.