The New Score is a reference and education site about contemporary and experimental composed music, written and premiered in the present and performed in a regional context. It explains the field for listeners and makers alike, and it is a new, unaffiliated project. The Field section defines the practice, profiles the monthly magazine New Music Express, lists the instruments a present-day composer can score a piece for, and draws the line between the established canon and contemporary music.

Composers & Works turns to the people and the pages. It sets out what contemporary classical music means, profiles the composers, performers and ensembles making new music now, and carries a shortlist of eight works with the reasoning behind each one. Festivals & Venues follows the music onto the stage, from the festival that has anchored Huddersfield's new music scene to the free annual festival in Bristol and the cluster of events in London.

Listening & Finding closes the loop between maker and ear. It tracks the contemporary classical recordings released each week, explains how a new music chart is ranked, and covers the concert film, the studio capture and the premiere footage that put new music on screen. The site is a guide to the practice, not a news feed, chart tracker or streaming service, and it carries no unlicensed downloads or rips.