Special Collections and Finding Aids

Photograph of Alexandra Danilova and Serge Lifar in Apollon Musagete, n.d.

The Music Division holds more than five hundred named special collections in music, theater, and dance, varying in size from fewer than a dozen items to more than half a million. Many of these collections are processed and have finding aids online. Others are in varying stages of processing and may have guides, inventories, or print finding aids available on-site. Collections with no finding aids or other guides are described by catalog records in the online catalog. Links are provided in this list of special collections to both finding aids and catalog records.

Most Library of Congress online finding aids utilize Encoded Archival Description (EAD), enabling one to search multiple finding aids across divisions in a single search. Finding aid PDFs are also provided to facilitate printing.

Researchers who wish to consult any special collection material are advised to contact the Reader Services Section two weeks in advance for assistance in planning their visit and to ensure that collection material will be available.

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A

• John R. Adams Collection (English teacher and archivist) [View Catalog Record]
• Clarence Adler Papers (pianist and music teacher) [View Catalog Record]
• Richard Adler Collection (composer, lyricist, and theatrical producer) [View Catalog Record]
• Bhumibol Adulyadej (King of Thailand) Collection (Thai jazz composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Milton Ager Collection (songwriter) [View Catalog Record]
• Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection (African American dance theater) [View Catalog Record]
• Hugh Aitken Collection (American composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Laurindo Almeida Papers (American composer and guitarist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 320KB / 67 pages]
• Robert Altshuler Collection of Jazz Materials (radio host and CBS Records executive) [View Catalog Record]
• Amateur Hour Collection (radio program) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 86KB / 13 pages]
• American Ballet Caravan Music Scores (dance music) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 46KB / 9 pages]
• American Ballet Theatre Archive (dance company) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 220KB / 22 pages]
• American / Century Play Company Scripts and Business Papers (company records) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 220KB / 57 pages]
• American Composer's Forum Collection (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• American Liszt Society Collection (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• American Music Center Records (organization that promoted American music) [View Catalog Record]
• Andrews Sisters Collection (vocal trio and entertainers) [View Catalog Record]
• George and B?ske Antheil Papers (composer, literary and journalism writer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140KB / 27 pages]
• George Antheil Correspondence with Mary Louise Curtis Bok (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 41KB / 7 pages]
• George Antheil Correspondence to Stanley Hart (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 36KB / 6 pages]
• Lucille Preston and Louis Armstrong Correspondence (letters between trumpeter, composer, vocalist and wife) [View Catalog Record]
• Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers (World War II music performances) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 183KB / 26 pages]
• Arsis Press Collection (music publisher featuring women composers) [View Catalog Record]
• ASCAP Foundation Collection (professsional music organization) [View Catalog Record]
• ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Award Records (composition competition winners) [View Catalog Record]
• Howard Ashman Papers (Disney lyricist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 58KB / 13 pages]
• Lauro Ayestarán Collection (musicologist focused on Uruguayan music) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,676KB / 360 pages]
• Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo Collection (Brazilian musicologist and folklorist) [View Catalog Record]

B

• Milton Babbitt Collection (composer, theorist, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Bach Aria Group Collection (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• Ernst Bacon Collection (composer, pianist, and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 423KB / 66 pages]
• Parker Bailey Collection (composer, pianist, and lawyer) [View Catalog Record]
• Pearl Bailey Collection (African American vocalist and dancer) [View Catalog Record]
• Chet Baker Materials from the Papers of Diane Vavra (Jazz trumpeter and vocalist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 157KB / 7 pages]
• Richard Bales Deposit (Composer and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Papers (married couple, entertainers)[View Catalog Record]
• Ern? Balogh Collection (Hungarian-born pianist and accompanist) [View Catalog Record]
• Artur Balsam Collection (Polish-born pianist and accompanist) [View Catalog Record]
• Seymour Barab Collection (composer and cellist) [View Catalog Record]
• Samuel Barber Collection (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 192KB / 13 pages]
• Armgard von Bardeleben Papers (dance soloist and teacher at the Martha Graham School) [View Catalog Record]
• Charlie Barnet Collection of Big Band Arrangements (composer, jazz saxophonist, and bandleader) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 171KB / 45 pages]
• Maurice Baron Collection (French-American composer and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Samuel Baron Collection (flute soloist and director of Bach Aria Group) [View Catalog Record]
• Barry Sisters Papers (vocalists; Klezmer and jazz entertainers) [View Catalog Record]
• Etelka Freund Collection on Béla Bartók (Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, compiled by Freund) [View Catalog Record]
• John Davis Batchelder Papers (nineteenth-century musician autographs and letters) [View Catalog Record]
• Harold Bauer Collection (pianist and music educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 150KB / 22 pages]
• Irwin Bazelon Collection (film and theater composer, and author) [View Catalog Record]
• Edward Beach Collection of Jazz Photographs and Other Iconography (jazz broadcaster) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 93KB / 9 pages]
• Louis Bellson Collection (jazz drummer) [View Catalog Record]
• Willi Reich Collection on Alban Berg (Austrian composer, second Viennese school) [View Catalog Record]
• Milton Berle Papers (radio and television vaudeville performer and host) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 257KB / 75 pages]
• Irving Berlin Collection (composer and lyricist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,092KB / 313 pages]
• Herman Berlinski Papers (German-born composer, organist, pianist, musicologist, and choir conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Leonard Bernstein Collection (composer, conductor, and music educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,640KB / 515 pages]
• Ernest Bloch Collection (Swiss-born composer and violinist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 205KB / 45 pages]
• Eric Johnson Collection of Ernest Bloch Photographs (Swiss-born composer and violinist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 33KB / 6 pages]
• Suzanne Bloch Papers (musician; pioneer of Early Music Revival ) [View Catalog Record]
• Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler Photographs (pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Franziska Boas Collection (dance educator, percussionist, and social activist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 375KB / 37 pages]
• William Bolcom Collection of Pop Orchestra Arrangements (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Adolph Bolm Collection (ballet dancer, choreograper, and dance educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 87KB / 17 pages]
• Harriet Winslow Collection of Nadia Boulanger Materials (French composer and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 33KB / 5 pages]
• Edmund A. Bowles Collection (researcher of musical instrument history) [View Catalog Record]
• Martin Boykan Collection (composer and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• William B. Bradbury Collection (secular music composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 49KB / 9 pages]
• H. Stevens Brewster Collection (National Symphony Orchestra contrabassoonist) [View Catalog Record]
• Peter Bridge Collection (pianist, composer, and former Music Division staff) [View Catalog Record]
• Frederick Brisson and Rosalind Russell Papers (film producer married to actress/singer) [View Catalog Record]
• Broude Brothers Limited Archive (music publisher) [View Catalog Record]
• Belle Brown Collection (operatic soprano) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 44KB / 9 pages]
• Leon Brusiloff Collection (theater orchestra and dance band conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Dudley Buck Papers (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Budapest String Quartet Collection (string ensemble) [View Catalog Record]
• Leonard Burkat Collection (music and orchestra librarian, and writer) [View Catalog Record]
• Ralph Burns Papers (jazz pianist, composer, and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Jack Butterworth Collection of Silent Film Cues [View Finding aid] [PDF : 139.417KB / 8 pages]
• Billy Byers Collection (composer, arranger, and orchestrator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 344KB / 65 pages]

C

• William Cameron Collection (harp soloist) [View Catalog Record]
• John Alden Carpenter Collection (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 180KB / 34 pages]
• Elliott Carter Music Manuscripts and Other Papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 148.281KB / 12 pages]
• Herbert L. Kirk Collection on Pablo Casals [View Finding aid] [PDF : 60KB / 10 pages]
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Papers (Italian composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 245KB / 74 pages]
• Marge Champion Collection (dancer, choreographer, and actress) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 244KB / 28 pages]
• Harry Chapin Papers (singer-songwriter) [View Catalog Record]
• Eric Chasalow Papers (electronic and acoustic music composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Chippendale Company Play Materials (English theater company) [View Catalog Record]
• Chordettes Collection of Musical Arrangements (female vocal quartet) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 45KB / 10 pages]
• Don Christlieb Photographs (jazz musicians) [View Catalog Record]
• Peggy Clark Papers (costumer and theatrical designer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 268KB / 44 pages]
• Edward Claypoole Collection (piano music composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Herbert H. Coburn Dance Program Collection (promotional material) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 79KB / 15 pages]
• Frank Roberts Cole Collection (bassoonist and scholar of bassoon music) [View Catalog Record]
• Miriam Cole Papers (dancer and choreographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 57KB / 12 pages]
• Susannah Armstrong Coleman Collection (pianist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 42KB / 7 pages]
• Judy Collins Papers (singer-songwriter and actress) [View Catalog Record]
• Larry Colwell Dance Photographs (dance photographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 58KB / 13 pages]
• Roan Conrad Opera Papers (programs, librettos, and reviews) [View Catalog Record]
• Frederick Converse Collection (composer and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Barbara Cook Collection (actress and singer) [View Catalog Record]
• Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection (music patron) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 590KB / 111 pages]
• Aaron Copland Collection (composer, author) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,948KB / 501 pages]
• Bill Cosel Papers (Boston television producer and director) [View Catalog Record]
• Henry Cowell Music Manuscripts (composer, writer, pianist, publisher, and teacher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 277.542KB / 48 pages]
• Sidney Robertson Cowell Collection (folklorist and ethnomusicologist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 188KB / 31 pages]
• John Crediford Collection (harp music and music collector) [View Catalog Record]
• Bainbridge Crist Music Manuscripts (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Julia Vincent Cross Papers (dancer and choreographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 57KB / 11 pages]
• George Crumb Papers (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 59KB / 12 pages]

D

• Gloria Parker Collection of Alfonso D'Artega Materials (Bandleader’s collection on Latino arranger, conductor, and songwriter) [View Catalog Record]
• Luigi Dallapiccola Correspondence with Rudy Shackelford (Italian and American composers) [View Catalog Record]
• Margaret ("Peggie") Dwight Collection on Luigi Dallapiccola (Italian composer; compiled by American artist Dwight) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 61KB / 10 pages]
• Mannes - Damrosch Collection (musical family) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 232KB / 25 pages]
• Damrosch - Tee Van Collection (musical family) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124KB / 17 pages]
• Damrosch-Blaine Collection (music educator, conductor, and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Dance Heritage Coalition Archive (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• Dance Notation Collection (choreographers' notation materials) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 143.653KB / 9 pages]
• Oliver Daniel Papers (musicologist and producer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 215KB / 57 pages]
• Alexandra Danilova Collection (School of American Ballet dancer and teacher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 390KB / 40 pages]
• R. D. Darrell Collection (music critic and writer) [View Catalog Record]
• Mario Davidovsky Papers (Argentine-American electro-acoustic composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Burt Boyar Collection of Sammy Davis Jr. Biographical Materials (Singer and entertainer, compiled by Davis biographer Boyar) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 57KB / 11 pages]
• Amedeo de Filippi Collection (Italian-born composer and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Leo Delibes Music Manuscripts [View Finding aid] [PDF : 139.785KB / 9 pages]
• Rosalind deMille Collection on Adolphe Bolm (dancer, choreographer, and teacher) [View Catalog Record]
• Elena De Sayn and Alice Eversman Collection (violinist and soprano duo) [View Catalog Record]
• Grace McCrea Papers Relating to Denishawn (Denishawn Dance Company dancer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 75KB / 17 pages]
• Emery Deutsch Collection (violinist and bandleader) [View Catalog Record]
• Robert Di Domenica Collection (composer, music educator, and flutist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 127KB / 20 pages]
• Serge Diaghilev / Serge Lifar Collection (Russian composer, donated by dancer Lifar) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 654KB / 110 pages]
• David Diamond Papers (composer and music educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 750KB / 159 pages]
• Violeta Dinescu Collection (Romanian composer and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Eric Dolphy Collection (jazz reed player and flutist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 69KB / 13 pages]
• William Doran Collection (Materials on operas singers and conductors) [View Catalog Record]
• Anne Douglas Papers Related to Denishawn (Denishawn Dance Company dancer) [View Catalog Record]
• Alfred Drake Papers (theatrical artist and director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 65KB / 14 pages]
• Jane Dudley Papers (dancer, choreographer, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 189KB / 13 pages]
• The Vernon Duke Collection (composer and songwriter) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 643KB / 128 pages]
• Katherine Dunham Collection (dancer, choreograher, and dance anthropologist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 109KB / 29 pages]
• Robert Ellis Dunn Papers (post-modern dancer, choreographer, and educator) [View Catalog Record]

E

• Quaintance Eaton Papers (Writer, with an opera focus) [View Catalog Record]
• Edison Sheet Music Collection (nineteenth century published sheet music) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 7,229KB / 853 pages]
• Art Pilkington Collection relating to Duke Ellington (jazz composer and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Jerry Valburn Collection on Duke Ellington (jazz composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Angna Enters Collection (dancer and pantomime artist) [View Catalog Record]
• Selma Epstein Collection (pianist and patron of African American and women composers) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 40KB / 9 pages]
• Robert Evett Collection (composer, arts editor, and art critic) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 176KB / 12 pages]
• Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush Eye on the Arts Archive (New York City music, theater, and dance performances) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 57KB / 12 pages]

F

• Geraldine Farrar Collection (opera singer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 161KB / 23 pages]
• Federal Music Project Collection (government funded music performances) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 176KB / 40 pages]
• Federal Theatre Project Collection (government funded theater perfomances) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 772KB / 265 pages]
• Leo Feist Collection (music publisher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 415KB / 151 pages]
• Edmund H. Fellowes Collection (English scholar and cathedral musician) [View Catalog Record]
• Frederick Fennell Collection (band conductor and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Emanuel Feuermann Collection (cellist) [View Catalog Record]
• Jacobo Ficher Collection (Russian composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 316KB / 54 pages]
• Mrs. Henry T. Finck Photograph Collection [View Catalog Record]
• Irving Fine Collection (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 129KB / 24 pages]
• Vivian Fine Music Manuscripts (composer, pianist, and music educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 97KB / 14 pages]
• Ross Lee Finney Collection (composer and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• J. Fischer & Bro. Music Publishers Collection (music publisher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 138KB / 32 pages]
• Ella Fitzgerald Collection (jazz vocalist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136KB / 41 pages]
• Med Flory/Supersax Collection (saxophonist, arranger Saxophone ensemble) [View Catalog Record]
• Carlisle Floyd Collection (opera composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Basil Fomeen Collection (Russian-American orchestra leader and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Lukas Foss Papers (composer, conductor, and pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 141KB / 27 pages]
• Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon Collection (musical theater choreographer and director, compiled by Verdon, dancer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 469KB / 123 pages]
• Vinton Freedley Collection (theater producer and screen actor) [View Catalog Record]
• Albert Fuller Collection (harpist, organist, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]

G

• Edith Woodcock Collection of Galuppi Material (Venetian composer, compiled by Woodcock, researcher) [View Catalog Record]
• Benjamin Garber Papers (dancer, had relationship with Martha Graham) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 187KB / 14 pages]
• German National Music Collection (Nazi-era German government music publishing) [PDF: 111KB]
• Ira Gershwin Files from the Law Office of Leonard Saxe (legal papers of composer and lyricist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 53KB / 10 pages]
• George and Ira Gershwin Collection (composer and lyricist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 842KB / 194 pages]
• Louis Gesensway Collection (Latvian-born composer and violinist) [View Catalog Record]
• Mary Foster Gill Scrapbooks (Boston event programs, photos, and memorabilia) [View Catalog Record]
• Josef Gingold Collection (Violinist and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Alma Gluck Scrapbooks and Other Materials (soprano) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 41KB / 8 pages]
• Leopold Godowsky Collection (Polish-born pianist and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Julius Gold Collection (violinist and musicologist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 133KB / 18 pages]
• Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale Collection of Music Manuscripts [View Finding aid] [PDF : 124.163KB / 6 pages]
• Franko Goldman Family Papers (musical family) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 73KB / 8 pages]
• Dexter Gordon Collection (jazz tenor saxophonist and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 86KB / 19 pages]
• Gottlieb Jazz Photograph Collection (writer and photographer) [View Catalog Record]
• Morton Gould Papers (composer, conductor, and pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 139KB / 38 pages]
• Prevots Collection of Materials on Norma Gould (dancer, choreographer, and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Martha Graham Collection (modern dancer, choreographer, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 380KB / 83 pages]
• Martha Graham Legacy Archive (modern dancer, choreographer, and educator) [PDF: 33KB]
• Reproductions of Selected Percy Grainger Papers[View Finding aid] [PDF : 123.555KB / 6 pages]
• Maxine Glorsky Papers Relating to Martha Graham (dancer, stage manager for Graham) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 175KB / 11 pages]
• Jack Gottlieb Papers (composer; author and lecturer on Jewish music influences) [View Catalog Record]
• Dolores Gray Collection (singer and actress) [View Catalog Record]
• Edward Greenfield Collection (English writer and music critic) [View Catalog Record]
• Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes Archive (rehearsal director for Serge Diaghilev) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 120KB / 24 pages]
• Ferde Grofe′ Collection (composer, conductor, and pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,402KB / 161 pages]
• David J. Grunes Collection (composer, editor, and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Adam Guettel Papers (lyricist and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection (pianist, conductor, and music critic) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 154KB / 18 pages]

H

• Hal Hackady Collection (lyricist, librettist, and screenwriter) [View Catalog Record]
• Charles Hambitzer Music Manuscripts (pianist, composer, and teacher of George Gershwin) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 37KB / 7 pages]
• Marvin Hamlisch Papers (film and broadway composer, pianist, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Oscar Hammerstein II Collection (lyricist, theatrical producer, and director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 217KB / 55 pages]
• D. Antoinette Handy Collection (educator, writer, and flutist) [View Catalog Record]
• Roy Harris Papers (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 145KB / 38 pages]
• Rosalie Hausman Collection (composer, musicologist, and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• John Haussermann Collection (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Erick Hawkins Collection (choreographer, dancer, dance company founder) [View Catalog Record]
• Hayes and Swarthout Families Papers (music professors and arts impresario) [View Catalog Record]
• Joe Haymes Big Band Arrangements (bandleader, arranger, and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 97KB / 27 pages]
• The Jascha Heifetz Collection (violinist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 806KB / 172 pages]
• Heineman Foundation Collection (manuscripts, first editions, and composer correspondence) [View Catalog Record]
• Hans Heinsheimer Collection (author and music publishing executive) [View Catalog Record]
• Frieda Hempel Papers (German coloratura soprano) [View Catalog Record]
• Luther Henderson Papers (Broadway and jazz arranger, composer, and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 123KB / 27 pages]
• Victor Herbert Collection (composer, conductor, and ASCAP co-founder) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 436KB / 128 pages]
• Jerry Herman Collection (Broadway composer and lyricist) [View Catalog Record]
• Robert Hernried Collection (composer, musicologist, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Tad Hershorn Collection of Jazz Research Materials (jazz writer and photographer) [View Catalog Record]
• Irene Heskes Collection (musicologist of Jewish music) [View Catalog Record]
• Joan Hill Tap Notation Collection (pianist for tap master Leon Collins) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 32KB / 5 pages]
• Richard S. Hill Collection (musicologist and former Music Division staff) [View Catalog Record]
• Leon Hilsberg Papers (Viennese-born banker and concert manager) (vocalist) [View Catalog Record]
• Harriet Hoctor Collection (vaudeville entertainer and dancer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 59KB / 12 pages]
• Hodges Family Collection (musical family) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 276KB / 39 pages]
• Robert Hoe Collection (band music and concert programs) [View Catalog Record]
• Music from the Bob Hope Collection (theater, radio, film, and television entertainer/comedian) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 114KB / 34 pages]
• Helen Hopekirk Collection (Scots-American composer and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Shirley Horn Papers (jazz singer and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection (choreographer, dancer, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 246KB / 39 pages]
• Alan Hovhaness Collection (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• William Huber, Jr. Collection (music for organ, piano, violin and piano, and vocalists) [PDF: 447KB]
• Anne A. Hull Papers (pianist and teacher) [View Catalog Record]
• Anne Hull Collection (pianist, educator, and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Eusebia Hunkins Collection (folk opera composer) [View Catalog Record]

I

• Inter-American Music Festival Foundation Records (official records) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 30KB / 5 pages]
• International Association of Jazz Educators Collection (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• Burl Ives Collection (singer and television, radio, and theatrical entertainer)[View Finding aid] [PDF : 87KB / 20 pages]

J

• Edward Jablonski Papers (musicologist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 39KB / 8 pages]
• George Jackson Papers (Austrian-born dance critic) [View Catalog Record]
• Irene Jacobi Collection (pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Carrie Jacobs-Bond Collection (composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136KB / 20 pages]
• Charles Jahant Collection of Photographs of Opera Singers (opera critic) [View Catalog Record]
• Hall Johnson Collection (composer, arranger, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Herbert N. Johnston Papers (engineer, band conductor, cornetist, composer/arranger, and author) [View Catalog Record]

K

• Bo?idar Kantu?er Papers (Slovene composer of classical music) [View Catalog Record]
• George S. Kaufman and Anne Kaufman Schneider Papers (playwright, theatrical producer, and director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 46KB / 8 pages]
• Louis Kaufman Collection (violinist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 164KB / 28 pages]
• Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection (music and entertainment duo) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 522KB / 142 pages]
• Cesi Kellinger Collection of Dance Materials [View Finding aid] [PDF : 175.831KB / 14 pages]
• Jerome Kern Collection (musical theater composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 786KB / 157 pages]
• Yuriko and Susan Kikuchi Papers (dance and choreography) [View Catalog Record]
• Hans Kindler Foundation Collection (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• Otto Klemperer Archive (German-born composer and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 243KB / 63 pages]
• Florence Klotz Costume Designs (Broadway designer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 35KB / 7 pages]
• Alice Kortschak Koenigsberger and Hugo Kortschak Papers (Hugo: Austrian-born violinist) [View Catalog Record]
• Rudolf Kolisch Collection (violinist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 40KB / 8 pages]
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold Collection (composer, conductor, and pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 321KB / 50 pages]
• Andre Kostelanetz Collection (conductor, pianist, and commissioner) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,084KB / 366 pages]
• The Serge Koussevitzky Archive (composer, conductor, and commissioner) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,671KB / 324 pages]
• Boris Koutzen Collection (violinist, composer, and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 172KB / 26 pages]
• Aaron Kramer Collection (poet and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• John Krance Collection (composer and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Alvina Krause Papers (drama teacher and theater director) [View Catalog Record]
• Laszlo Krausz Portraits of Musicians (violinist, conductor, and visual artist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 32KB / 5 pages]
• Fritz Kreisler Collection (violinist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 182KB / 36 pages]
• Alan M. and Sali Ann Kriegsman Collection (dance critic and dance historian couple ) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 199KB / 50 pages]
• Nathan Kroll Collection (director and producer of music documentaries) [View Catalog Record]
• Eugene C. Krylow Collection (Russian-born composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Meyer Kupferman Collection (composer and clarinetist) [View Catalog Record]
• Edward Frampton Kurtz Collection (violinist and composer) [View Catalog Record]

L

• Steve Lacy (soprano saxophonist and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Valeria Ladd Collection on the Revived Greek Dance (dancer for Noyes School of Rhythm) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 63KB / 5 pages]
• Mayhew L. Lake Collection (Composer, arranger, and bandmaster) [View Catalog Record]
• Oliver Lake Collection (jazz musician, composer, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Joseph Lamb Collection (ragtime composer) [View Catalog Record]
• H. C. Robbins Landon Collection (musicologist and Haydn historian) [View Catalog Record]
• Wanda Landowska and Denise Restout Papers (keyboardist and composer, compiled by student Restout) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 256KB / 69 pages]
• Burton Lane Papers (Broadway and film producer) [View Catalog Record]
• Pearl Lang Papers (dancer and choreographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 190KB / 39 pages]
• Herman Langinger Music Publishing Files (publisher, printer, and editor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 150KB / 36 pages]
• John Pierce Langs Papers (composer, pianist, and lawyer) [View Catalog Record]
• Paul L?wenberg Collection of Lanner-Strauss Materials (musical family, related to Viennese waltz music) [View Catalog Record]
• Jonathan Larson Papers (composer, lyricist, playwright) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 111KB / 29 pages]
• Arthur Laurents Papers (playwright, screenwriter, and broadway director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 83KB / 19 pages]
• Dorothea Dix Lawrence Collection (opera singer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 47KB / 10 pages]
• Minna Lederman Daniel Collection (music and dance writer, League of Composers founder) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 73KB / 17 pages]
• Lilli Lehmann Collection (German soprano) [View Catalog Record]
• Hugo Leichtentritt Papers (musicologist, critic, and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 51KB / 10 pages]
• Harry and Sara Lepman Collection (American musical patriotic and political memoribilia) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 104KB / 34 pages]
• Alan Jay Lerner Papers (lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 118KB / 30 pages]
• Lewett/ARTtv Moving Image Collection (producer/director of dance-focused cultural program) [View Catalog Record]
• David Lewin Papers (music theorist, composer, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 175KB / 37 pages]
• Jerry Lewis Collection (comedian, actor, and entertainer) [View Catalog Record]
• Robert Hall Lewis Collection (composer, conductor, and educator) [PDF: 612KB]
• Alessandro Liberati Collection (composer, cornetist, and bandleader) [View Catalog Record]
• Library of Congress Friends of Music Records (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• William Lichtenwanger Papers (Music librarian and former Music Division staff) [View Catalog Record]
• Arthur J. Lieb Collection (librarian, chorister, and music historian) [View Catalog Record]
• Josiah Kirby Lilly Collection (philanthropist and Lilly Endowment founder) [View Catalog Record]
• Andrew Lippa Papers (composer, lyricist, and performer) [View Catalog Record]
• Songs of Edward Lipton (children's songs singer and songwriter) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 46KB / 11 pages]
• Charles Martin Loeffler Collection (violinist and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Frederick Loewe Collection (Broadway and theatrical composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 247KB / 31 pages]
• Joe Lombardi Collection (band and society orchestra leader) [View Catalog Record]
• Harvey Worthington Loomis Collection (composer, student of Dvo?ák) [View Catalog Record]
• Nikolai Lopatnikoff Collection (opera composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 259KB / 36 pages]
• Lost Musicals Production Materials (British musical theater project) [View Catalog Record]
• Herman Lowin Collection (textile executive and collector) [View Catalog Record]
• Norman Luboff Collection (choral music composer, conductor, singer, teacher, and publisher) [PDF: 118KB]
• Peter Lund, Jr. Collection (zither musician and music collector) [View Catalog Record]
• Bruce Lundvall Papers (record company executive) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 51KB / 10 pages]
• Ralph Lyford Collection (composer and conductor) [View Catalog Record]

M

• Donald W. MacArdle Collection (music radio host and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Music of Machito and his Afro-Cubans (Latin jazz musician and bandleader) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 189KB / 20 pages]
• Henry Mancini Papers (film, recording, and concert music composer and arranger) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 751.363KB / 169 pages]
• Alan and Nancy Mandel Papers (composer, pianist and teacher) [View Catalog Record]
• Loretta Manggrum Collection (sacred music composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Muriel Manings and William Korff Papers (married couple, dancers and dance historians) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 202KB / 19 pages]
• Shelly Manne Collection (jazz drummer, composer, educator, and bandleader) [View Catalog Record]
• Edward B. Manning Collection (Canadian composer, violinist, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Houston L. Maples Family Collection on Russian Theatre, Opera, and Ballet [View Catalog Record]
• Edward and Marian Macdowell Collection (composers, pianists, creators of the MacDowell Colony) [PDF: 236KB]
• Mason Martens Collection (organist, musicologist, and church music) [View Catalog Record]
• Hugh Martin Papers (composer, lyricist, vocal arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Sophie Maslow Papers (modern dancer, choreographer, educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 95KB / 26 pages]
• Samuel Matlovsky Papers (film music composer and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Peter Matz Collection (composer and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Billy May Arrangements (composer, arranger, and bandleader) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 61KB / 16 pages]
• John Herbert McDowell Papers (avant-garde composer of dance and theatrical music) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 252KB / 33 pages]
• Helen McGehee and Uma?a Collection of Dance Materials (dancer and costume designer) [View Catalog Record]
• John McGlinn Collection (musical historian and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 364KB / 112 pages]
• Ken McIntyre Collection (jazz musician and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• McKim (Leonora Jackson and William Duncan McKim) Collection (violinist; commissioning fund in her name) [PDF: 100KB]
• Carmen McRae Collection of Musical Arrangements and Other Materials (jazz vocalist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 225KB / 66 pages]
• Nikolay Karlovich Medtner Papers (composer and pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 143KB / 17 pages]
• Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation Collection / Mendelssohn Collection (Stradavari instruments and materials for composer) [PDF: 251KB]
• Ethel Merman Papers (actress, artist, and singer) [View Catalog Record]
• David Merrick Collection (producer of Broadway musicals) [View Catalog Record]
• Helen Merrill and Torrie Zito Papers (married couple: jazz singer; and pianist, composer/arranger, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Emerson Meyers papers (composer, pianist and music teacher) [View Catalog Record]
• Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection (flutes and flute history, international in scope) [PDF: 1891KB]
• Gilbert Miller Papers (theatrical producer and theater owner) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 48KB / 9 pages]
• Production Materials for the Glenn Miller Story [View Finding aid] [PDF : 136.254KB / 10 pages]
• Mitch Miller Papers (oboist, recording artist, and producer) [View Catalog Record]
• Charles Mingus Collection (jazz composer and bassist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,369KB / 128 pages]
• Giacomo Minkowski Collection (vocal teacher, critic, and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Modern Music Archives (League of Composers journal publication) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 144KB / 20 pages]
• Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chants and Hymns (Egyptian ethnomusicologist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 164KB / 16 pages]
• Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress (music history, middle ages to twentieth century) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 2,777KB / 419 pages]
• Avenir de Monfred Papers (Russian composer and organist) [View Catalog Record]
• Merle Montgomery Papers (music educator and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 102KB / 18 pages]
• Larry Moore Collection (orchestrator and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• Elizabeth Hunter Morrill Collection (soprano and Italian opera enthusiast) [View Catalog Record]
• Jelly Roll Morton Collection (jazz composer and musician) [PDF: 60KB]
• Herta Moselsio Photographs of Martha Graham's Lamentation (dance performance documentation) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 45KB / 7 pages]
• George Moss Collection (piano vocal scores by twentieth century artists) [PDF: 119KB]
• Florian F. Mueller Collection (oboist) [View Catalog Record]
• Gerry Mulligan Collection (jazz saxophonist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 503KB / 111 pages]
• Music Critics Association Collection (music association) [View Catalog Record]
• Sadie Molin Perazzini Photograph Collection relating to Claudia Muzio (Italian operatic soprano) [View Catalog Record]

N

• Daniel Nagrin Collection (dancer and choreographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 155KB / 39 pages]
• Hans Nathan Collection (musicologist and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• The National Flute Association, Inc. Archives [View Finding aid] [PDF : 681KB / 96 pages]
• National Music Council Collection (official records) [View Catalog Record]
• National Negro Opera Company Collection (first African American opera company) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 307KB / 82 pages]
• Alberto Nepomuceno Collection ("Father" of musical nationalism for Brazil) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140KB / 18 pages]
• Sammy Nestico Papers (composer and jazz music arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• New Dance Group Collection (Dance organization) [View Catalog Record]
• New York Saxophone Quartet Collection (commissioning organization) [View Catalog Record]
• Newland / Zeuner Collection (professional musicians, composers) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,160KB / 112 pages]
• Tommy Newsom Arrangements (saxophonist and arranger) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 210KB / 29 pages]
• Bronislava Nijinska Collection (dancer, educator, and choreographer) [View Catalog Record]
• Pola Nirenska Collection (dancer, educator, and choreographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 206KB / 41 pages]
• Jessye Norman Papers (opera singer) [View Catalog Record]
• Alex North Music for Documentary Film, Theater, Dance, and Concert (composer and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 177KB / 15 pages]
• Marilyn La Vine Collection of Rudolf Nureyev Materials (dancer, actor, and choreographer) [View Catalog Record]

O

• Arch Oboler Music Manuscripts (playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director) [View Catalog Record]
• Anita O'Day Papers (jazz vocalist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 108KB / 27 pages]
• May O'Donnell Papers (dancer, choreographer, educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 46KB / 9 pages]
• Milton Okun Collection (composer, producer, and music publisher) [View Catalog Record]
• Arne Oldberg Collection (composer and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 130KB / 38 pages]
• David Oppenheim Papers (clarinetist, arts administrator, producer) [View Catalog Record]

P

• Dorothy Slepian Packer Collection of Correspondence (musicologist, historian, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Helena Liibke Collection of Ignace Paderewski Materials (Polish composer, compiled by Packer, secretary to Paderewski) [View Catalog Record]
• Helen and Jane Meyer Collection of Paderewski Materials (Polish composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Maia Bang Hohn Collection on Nicolò Paganini (Italian violinist and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Ruth Page Correspondence on Billy Sunday (dancer, choreographer, and company owner) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 43KB / 8 pages]
• Florence Parr-Gere Papers (composer and pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 64KB / 10 pages]
• Les Paul Papers (Guitarist, pioneer of multi-track recording) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 271KB / 42 pages]
• Frank L. Perley Collection (impresario and opera company manager) [View Catalog Record]
• Victoria Phillips Collection (historian, work on Martha Graham Dance Company and New Dance Group) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 113KB / 30 pages]
• Laurence Picken Papers (musicologist, focused on East Asian musical traditions) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 100KB / 14 pages]
• Leonard Pimental Collection of Programs (promotional materials) [PDF: 58KB]
• Cole Porter Collection (theatrical composer and songwriter) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 277KB / 52 pages]
• Maud Powell Collection (violinist and soloist) [View Catalog Record]
• Music of A Prairie Home Companion (weekly radio variety show) [View Catalog Record]
• Frederik Prausnitz Collection (composer, conductor, and author) [View Catalog Record]
• Theodore Presser Company Collection (music publisher) [View Catalog Record]
• André Previn Collection (German-born composer, conductor, pianist, author, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Harold Prince Papers (theater producer and director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 182KB / 32 pages]

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R

• Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive (Russian composer, pianist, and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 544KB / 139 pages]
• John Raitt Papers (singer and actor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 216.978KB / 30 pages]
• David Raksin Papers (film and television composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Jack Raymond Collection of Playbills (theater programs) [View Catalog Record]
• Gardner Read Collection (composer and author) [View Catalog Record]
• Howard E. Reinheimer Papers (theater and copyright law specialist) [View Catalog Record]
• Rudolph and Richard Reti Collection (composer and musicologist) [View Catalog Record]
• Roger Reynolds Collection (composer and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Ruggiero Ricci Papers (violinist and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 247KB / 63 pages]
• Claiborne Richardson Papers (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Nelson Riddle Arrangements for Billy Eckstine (Riddle, arranger and bandleader; Eckstine, singer and trumpeter) [View Catalog Record]
• Max Roach Papers (jazz drummer and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 325KB / 100 pages]
• Richard Robbins Collection (composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Marian Robertson-Wilson Collection of Coptic Chant Texts (cellist, musicologist, and scholar) [View Catalog Record]
• Robert Parylak Collection of Mado Robin Materials (French soprano) [View Catalog Record]
• Joe Roccisano papers (alto saxophonist, bandleader, and arranger) [View Catalog Record]
• The Richard Rodgers Collection (theatrical composer, partner to Hammerstein) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 653KB / 145 pages]
• Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization Collection (music publishing and theatrical licensing company) [View Catalog Record]
• Artur Rodzinski Collection (Croatian choral and orchestral composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 496KB / 64 pages]
• Sigmund Romberg Collection (Hungarian-born composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Harold Rome Papers (composer and lyricist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 173.711KB / 17 pages]
• Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt Collection on Washington Opera (scrapbooks, correspondence, programs, and clippings) [View Catalog Record]
• Ned Rorem Collection (composer and writer) [View Catalog Record]
• Harry Rosenthal Collection on Franz Liszt (materials on Liszt, Hungarian composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Marion Ross Collection (film and television actress) [View Catalog Record]
• Randolph S. Rothschild Collection (music commissioner) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 201KB / 17 pages]
• Artur Rubinstein Correspondence (Polish-American pianist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 73KB / 8 pages]
• John J. Wayne Collection on Ida Rubinstein (Russian dancer, actress, and company director) [View Catalog Record]
• Max Rudolf Papers (German-born American conductor and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 98KB / 16 pages]

S

• Lord Saltoun Collection of Guitar Music (British Army General and music enthusiast) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 40KB / 9 pages]
• Francis Maria Scala Papers (composer, former director of the US Marine Band) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 216KB / 61 pages]
• Albert Schatz Collection (music dealer and collector of operatic works) [View Catalog Record]
• Rudolph and Joseph Schildkraut Scrapbooks (Austrian-American stage and film actors) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 42KB / 9 pages]
• Kurt Schindler Papers (conductor, composer, arranger, and music editor) [View Catalog Record]
• Grace and Gustave Schirmer Correspondence and Other Papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 128.469KB / 7 pages]
• Loras John Schissel Collection (composer, conductor, and Music Division staff) [View Catalog Record]
• Mary C. Schmid Tune-Dex cards [View Catalog Record]
• A. P. Schmidt Company Archives (German-born American music publisher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 1,383KB / 524 pages]
• Lars Schmidt Papers (Swedish theater producer and director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 113KB / 20 pages]
• Artur Schnabel Collection (Austrian-born pianist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 47KB / 10 pages]
• Mary Virginia Foreman Le Garrec Collection of Artur Schnabel Materials (pianist, compiled by Le Garrec, student of Schnabel) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 87KB / 20 pages]
• Alexander Schneider Collection (violinist, conductor, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Arnold Schoenberg Collection (Austrian-born composer, founder Second Viennese School) [View Catalog Record]
• Gunther Schuller Papers (composer, educator, writer) [View Catalog Record]
• William Schuman papers (composer, administrator, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Arnold T. Schwab Collection on Marian Nevins MacDowell [View Finding aid] [PDF : 265.620KB / 36 pages]
• Arthur Schwartz Papers (composer and film producer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 132KB / 36 pages]
• Elliott Schwartz Collection (composer and author) [View Catalog Record]
• Irving Schwerké Collection (international music critic) [View Catalog Record]
• Hazel Scott Papers [View Finding aid] [PDF : 140.988KB / 8 pages]
• Don Sebesky Papers (composer, conductor, and trombonist) [View Catalog Record]
• Seeger Family Collection (musical family, folk music focus) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 482.800KB / 93 pages]
• Roger Sessions Collection (composer and music educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Winston Sharples Music Manuscripts (composer for short films) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 95KB / 24 pages]
• R. Deane Shure Collection (composer, organist, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Beverly Sills Scrapbooks and Awards (operatic soprano and administrator) [View Catalog Record]
• Elie Siegmeister Papers (composer, teacher, and writer on music) [View Catalog Record]
• Alexander and Oxana Siloti papers (Russian pianist, conductor, and composer and his daughter) [View Catalog Record]
• Bertha W. Edwards Collection on Hiram Simmons [View Finding aid] [PDF : 129.117KB / 7 pages]
• Ezra Sims Collection (composer of micro-tonal music) [View Catalog Record]
• Albert Sirmay papers (composer, editor, and publisher) [View Catalog Record]
• Nicolas Slonimsky Collection (composer and musicologist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 2,566KB / 321 pages]
• Leonard B. Smith Papers (conductor, cornetist, music publisher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 881KB / 206 pages]
• Oliver Smith Papers (production designer, producer, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 163KB / 10 pages]
• Society for American Music Records (official records) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 525KB / 61 pages]
• Harvey Sollberger Papers (flutist, composer, and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Oscar George Theodore Sonneck Collection (Music Division’s first chief) [View Catalog Record]
• Henry Sopkin Collection (composer and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• John Philip Sousa Collection (composer and bandmaster) [View Catalog Record]
• Christopher Dodrill Collection on John Philip Sousa (composer and bandmaster; compiled by Sousa researcher) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 86KB / 25 pages]
• Arabella Sparnon Harp Arrangements (harp) [View Catalog Record]
• Len Spencer Collection (early twentieth century recording artist) [View Catalog Record]
• Hans Spialek Papers (orchestrator, arranger, and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Claudio Spies Papers (Chilean-born composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 138KB / 30 pages]
• Harold Spivacke Collection (musicologist and former Music Division chief) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 160KB / 25 pages]
• Rose Marie Grentzer and Harold Spivacke Fund Collection [View Finding aid] [PDF : 167.866KB / 14 pages]
• Spoleto Festival Programs (performing arts festivals) [View Catalog Record]
• Isaac Stern Papers (violinist) [View Catalog Record]
• Edward and Clara Steuermann Collection (married couple, pianists, composer, and music librarian) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 322KB / 37 pages]
• Halsey Stevens Papers (composer, musicologist, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 183KB / 29 pages]
• Roger L. Stevens Collection (theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive) [View Catalog Record]
• Paul F. Stiga Collection of Stage and Costume Design (theatrical materials collector) [View Catalog Record]
• Albert Stoessel Collection (violinist, composer, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Leopold Stokowski Materials (orchestra conductor and music director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 143.224KB / 8 pages]
• Robert Craft Collection on Igor Stravinsky (Russian composer; compiled by Stravinsky's assistant) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 155KB / 23 pages]
• Billy Strayhorn Music Manuscripts and Estate Papers (jazz pianist, composer, and arranger) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 201KB / 54 pages]
• William Remsen Strickland Collection (composer and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 120KB / 20 pages]
• Charles Strouse Papers (composer and lyricist) [View Catalog Record]
• Oliver Strunk Collection (musicologist and former Music Division staff) [View Catalog Record]
• Steven Stucky Papers (composer, educator, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Morton Subotnick Papers (electronic music composer and educator) [View Catalog Record]
• Dana Suesse Papers (pianist, composer, and lyricist) [View Catalog Record]
• Steven Suskin Collection (producer, author, and historian) [View Catalog Record]
• Henryk Szeryng Collection (Polish violinist and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 363KB / 111 pages]

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• Broughton Tall Collection (drama critic, playwright, and opera publicist) [View Catalog Record]
• Louise Talma Papers (composer, pianist, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 182KB / 41 pages]
• Tams-Witmark Collection (music publisher and rental company) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 348KB / 66 pages]
• Tams-Witmark-Princeton Collection (music publisher and rental company) [View Catalog Record]
• Billy Taylor Papers (jazz pianist, composer, and educator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 469KB / 131 pages]
• Prentiss Taylor Collection (concert programs, drawings, and scores) [View Catalog Record]
• Katherine Teck Papers (writer and studio musician for ballet, modern dance, and creative movement) [View Catalog Record]
• Howard Teichmann Papers (radio and TV writer, director, and producer) [View Catalog Record]
• Jeanine Tesori Papers (musical theater composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Theatre Communications Group Program Collection (national theater organization) [View Catalog Record]
• Roman Totenberg Papers (Polish-American violinist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 172KB / 38 pages]
• Charles Tournemire Collection (French composer and organist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 51KB / 10 pages]
• George L. Tracy Collection of Music Manuscripts (composer and arranger) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 133KB / 37 pages]
• Helen Traubel Collection (soprano) [View Catalog Record]
• Leo M. Traynor Collection (amateur viola player and Japanese music collector) [View Catalog Record]
• Judith Chazin-Bennahum Photograph Collection Relating to Antony Tudor (English ballet dancer and choreographer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 41KB / 8 pages]

U

• United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador Program Musical Commissions (commissioning orgnization) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 38KB / 7 pages]
• William Treat Upton Collection (eighteenth and nineteenth century secular music expert) [View Catalog Record]
• Vladimir Ussachevsky Collection (electronic music composer) [View Catalog Record]

V

• Egbert Van Alstyne Papers (songwriter and pianist) [View Catalog Record]
• Ralstin/Murphy Collection relating to Vera-Ellen and the Hessler Dance Studio (film actor and dancer, scrapbooks compiled about Vera-Ellen) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 49KB / 9 pages]
• Billy and Marlene VerPlanck Papers (composer/arranger married to jazz/pop vocalist) [View Catalog Record]
• Arnold Volpe Collection (Lithuanian-born composer and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers (composer, music publisher, entertainment lawyer, and producer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 235KB / 70 pages]
• Ethel L. Voynich Papers (composer and novelist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 76KB / 10 pages]

W

• Sallie R. Wagner Collection (photographer and patron to Erick Hawkins) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 35KB / 5 pages]
• David Albert Walker papers (composer for dance and drama) [View Catalog Record]
• Don Walker Collection (arranger, composer, and Broadway orchestrator) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 298KB / 80 pages]
• Tony Walton Theatrical Designs and Notebooks (theatrical set and costume designer) [View Catalog Record]
• Russell Warner Music Manuscripts (composer, arranger, and orchestrator; early American musicals) [View Catalog Record]
• Warner/Chappell Collection (music publisher) [View Catalog Record]
• Elinor Remick Warren Papers (pianist and composer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 517KB / 132 pages]
• Larry Warren Collection on Anna Sokolow and Lester Horton [View Finding aid] [PDF : 194.772KB / 21 pages]
• Samuel P. Warren Collection (composer and organist) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 126KB / 34 pages]
• Edward N. and Lilly L. Waters Collection (Musicologist and former Music Division staff) [View Catalog Record]
• Chuck Wayne Papers (guitarist) [View Catalog Record]
• Hugo Weisgall Collection (Czech-born Jewish-American composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Paul Whear Music Scores (composer, music educator, double-bassist, and conductor) [View Catalog Record]
• Miles White Costume Designs (theatrical scene and costume designer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 39KB / 8 pages]
• Robert Whitehead Papers (theatrical producer and director) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 69KB / 13 pages]
• Arthur Whitelaw Collection (theater, film, and television producer) [View Catalog Record]
• Pearl Williams-Jones Papers (gospel musician, composer, and scholar) [View Catalog Record]
• Ethel Winter and Charles Hyman Collection (married couple; dancer and stage manager) [View Catalog Record]
• Harry J. Winterton Collection on Organs and Organists [View Catalog Record]
• P. G. Wodehouse Collection (author, librettist, and lyricist) [View Catalog Record]
• Max Woodward Collection (theater programming vice president at John F. Kennedy Center) [View Catalog Record]
• Russell Woollen Collection (composer, pianist, and organist) [View Catalog Record]
• Robert Wright and George Forrest Papers (Hollywood and musical theatre composer-lyricists) [View Catalog Record]

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Y

Z

• Florian ZaBach Papers (violinist, television personality, and composer) [View Catalog Record]
• Alexander Von Zemlinsky Collection (composer) [PDF: 85KB]
• Ludwig Zenk Music Manuscripts (Austrian composer and conductor) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 35KB / 6 pages]
• George Zoritch Collection (dancer) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 40KB / 8 pages]
• Mildred Spiegel Zucker Collection of Leonard Bernstein Correspondence and Related Materials (music teacher, childhood friend of Bernstein) [View Finding aid] [PDF : 31KB / 6 pages]