The Library has the largest collection of sheet music in the country, with over 300,000 items. The bulk of the collection relates to Australian composers, performers and music publishing houses.

Ever wondered how people learned the piano in the 1780s, 1880s and 1980s?

Our dance collection contains portraits, manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, music scores, personal papers, theatre programs and memorabilia.

A summary of copyright and rights in the Music Collection.

This large collection of music covering seven decades of Australian musical history, consists of scores and performance parts.

A comprehensive collection of manuscript pencil scores, drafts of compositions, and fair copies of Sitsky's music dating from 1958 onwards.

About 15,500 items of sheet music and about 700 music albums from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, as well as the personal papers of Snell.

Music scores and music related material created or collected by the composer, conductor and musicologist Richard Divall.

2286 titles, mainly monographs but also including manuscripts and music material about the history of Ireland and Australia.

Books on music and printed music published in Britain from the mid-17th century to the 20th century.

Personal papers, manuscript scores, literary manuscripts, sound recordings and family photographs of Peter Sculthorpe, plus videos of films for which he wrote the music and television interviews.

12,569 music scores which were used in Australian cinemas in the silent film era.