Archival Resources at ACA

The Historic ACA Bulletin

The complete, digitized ACA Bulletin magazines are offered on a pay-what-you-can basis, or for free. All income goes to the preservation of ACA's catalog.

The ACA Bulletin Magazine was published in 13 volumes, from 1938 through 1965. Articles, composer portraits, and record reviews were published with artistic covers and illustrations, and featured the works and writings of numerous American composers of the twentieth century.

ACA Music at SCPA

This browsing collection of six and a half thousand pieces consists of the music in ACA's current online catalog, archival and published, that have physical material held at the University of Maryland's Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA).

Score masters and copies from the ACA Collection, from the 1910s through the early 21st Century, are part of Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland. In addition to the scores, there are composer history files going back to the 1930s, with biographical information, concert notices, publishing histories, text permissions and general correspondence between ACA composers and ACA staff and founders.

Articles and Essays

A selection of a dozen articles and essays from ACA publications, other music organizations, and independent musicians and researchers highlighting composers and works from ACA's catalog.

ACA's Archival Score Listings

The ACA Archival Score Listings consist of about four thousand items that are not yet available in print or PDF editions.

Please submit a request for any archival work that interests you, and we will do our best to make it available.

The ACA Laurel Leaf Awards

The Laurel Leaf Certificate of Appreciation was given by ACA nearly every year beginning in 1951 and ending in 2012, in recognition of "distinguished achievement in fostering and encouraging American music."

Among the recipients of The Laurel Leaf over the years were the Juilliard String Quartet; the American Music Center; Leonard Slatkin; the Minnesota Composers Forum (American Composers Forum); WNYC, New York's public radio; and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group.

Past ACA Concerts and Summer Series

From 2005-2022, ACA held festivals, concerts, and other performance events that promoted the music of its constituent composers.

Shelter Music Recording Initiative

As the coronavirus pandemic continued to cancel live performances across the world, many freelance performers found themselves suddenly without necessary performance income expected. In response, ACA's initiative to support players sheltering at home began: Shelter Recordings.

Archived News and Events

Approximately 1,300 news and events posts from the previous iteration of ACA's website (June 2009 - October 2024) are archived here for researchers.

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