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The American Music Center offers a number of publications, workshops, and searchable online databases of American repertoire designed to meet the needs of today's new music community, as well as personal, one-on-one professional assistance. Read below and click on links to find out more information on AMC’s extensive resources.
AMC Online Library
Looking for a piece with 8 celli and kazoo?
The AMC Online Library is the go-to place to find nearly any piece of music ever created in the canon of American music. This powerful database lists over 41,500 works, over 5,400 composers, provides over 6,700 sound and score samples plus information on upcoming member performances. Updated daily by the composers and publishers themselves, AMC's Online Library is a continually growing database of American repertoire offering users advanced search capabilities.
Publications:
AMC Opportunity Update
When’s the next competition?
Each month, AMC emails its more than 2,500 members a new issue of Opportunity Update, a listing of professional opportunities including calls for scores, competitions, and other new music performance information.
Contemporary Music Ensembles Directory
Looking for a new music ensemble near you?
The American Music Center is continually updating the Contemporary Ensembles Directory. This directory contains up-to-date information on instrumental and/or vocal ensembles that have demonstrated a commitment to performing contemporary American music.
Opportunities in New Music
The listing of annual festivals, residencies and competitions.
Opportunities in New Music is an annotated listing of ongoing grants, competitions, and residencies.
Professional Development Program
Everything you might not have been taught in school.
AMC offers the Professional Development Program around the U.S. covering areas critical for composers and performers, such as self-publishing, the business of music, and concert production. Topics covered include our popular seminar on the business of music, self-publishing, production of promotional CDs, producing professional-level scores and parts, and promotion and marketing.
New American Music for Young Audiences
Put American music in your educational programming.
In addition, we also offer the specially targeted New American Music for Young Audiences, a comprehensive online guide to musical works for young audiences that is continuously updated with new works.
AMC 20th Century Scores Collection at the New York Public Library
Looking for that hard-to-find score?
The American Music Center 20th Century Scores Collection at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts continues to circulate throughout the world and comprises over 60,000 scores—many of which are unavailable elsewhere.
Information Assistance
A resourceful staff.
Have a question about American music or need advice on finding other information? The Membership and New Music Services department offers one-on-one professional assistance to its members.
Mailing List Rentals
Looking to promote your event?
The American Music Center offers its mailing list for a small fee to the new music
community at large. Click the link to find out how.
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