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 de Clef Piñeiro

Born of Puerto Rican parents and raised in a blue-collar community of walk-up tenements and bustling street life just to the north of and indistinguishable from New York’s "Hell’s Kitchen" on Manhattan’s West Side, John de Clef Piñeiro, a graduate of Yale Law School, is the former First Deputy General Counsel (in charge of Contracts, Real Estate and Corporate Matters) of the New York City Housing Authority and is a composer by avocation. Except for a short stint as a Mannes College of Music undergrad, he describes himself as an autodidact when it comes ... 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.