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A drawing of a man and a woman dancing. The title of the song is 'Kangaroo Hop'.

Melville Morris & Gus Kahn, Kangaroo hop song, 1916, nla.obj-175841153

Rights and the Music Collection

A summary of copyright and rights in the Music Collection.

Information article

Dr Susannah Helman stands in the On Stage exhibition gallery.

Dr Susannah Helman, curator of the On Stage exhibition and Library curator of Rare Books and Music. Image: National Library of Australia

On Stage: Exhibition curator's overture

Uncover Australia's performing arts history with On Stage.

Exhibition

A man with beard, moustache and long eyebrows looks over his left shoulder.

Rennie Ellis, Sir Robert Helpmann, Melbourne, 1972, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-145149146

On Stage: Hear from the stars

The Oral History and Folklore collection records the voices that describe our cultural, intellectual and social life.

Exhibition

Symphony Australia collection

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

Information article

Snell Collection

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.

Collection guide

State Theatre Collection

12,569 music scores which were used in Australian cinemas in the silent film era (roughly 1896 to 1929).

Collection guide

Pinne Collection

2780 music scores for songs and vocal and piano selections from American, British and Australian musicals, music theatre, films and television shows produced from about 1920 to 1990.

Collection guide

Portuguese and Brazilian Drama Collection

2121 books, pamphlets, programs, periodicals and plays published between 1755 and 1972.

Collection guide

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