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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 Townsend

Douglas Townsend, still actively composing at age 90, was born in New York City where in 1941 he was graduated from Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. While enrolled there, and at only 17 years of age, his "Contra Dances" won a nationwide contest for student composers and was performed by the CBS Symphony on a national radio broadcast (Bernard Herrmann conducting). As a young adult, Townsend privately studied composition with a succession of well-known composers: Tibor Serly, Stefan Wolpe (for five years), Aaron Copland (on a scholarship to Tanglewood), Otto Luening (on two scholarshi... 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.