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

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.

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

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.

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