The Library has a diverse collection of materials documenting the history of Australian musical performance.

We hold one of Australia’s largest collections of performing arts materials.

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).