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: Aaron Jay Kernis

Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the youngest composers ever to be awarded the Grawemeyer Award, the Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy nomination, is among the most esteemed musical figures of his generation. Each work of Kernis bears the unmistakable stamp of a wildly fertile imagination forged out of the wide-ranging musical languages of the 1980s and 1990s. His music bursts with rich poetic imagery, brilliant instrumental color, distinctive wit, and infectious exuberance. His work has been inspired by the horrors of the Persian Gulf War (as in the much-talked about Symphony No.2) the love poems of A... Read more ยป

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.