Leopold Mannes (1899-1964) was an American musician, educator, inventor, and son of the founders of the Mannes School of Music, David and Clara (Damrosch) Mannes. Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky, Jr. invented Kodachrome color photography. Mannes became president of the Mannes School of Music in 1948. This collection contains music manuscripts of Mannes's compositions, including arrangements of pieces by other composers.

The collection consists of 123 scores of compositions by Leo Smit, principally in copies of holographs. There are 21 scores of works by other composers arranged or transcribed by Smit. The remaining 41 scores are works by other composers either inscribed to Smit or marked for performance by Smit.

The Livingston Gearhart Collection of Scores contains compositions and arrangements by Gearhart in published and manuscript forms, as well as sketches and incomplete works. It also contains published scores by other composers annotated by Gearhart.

Scores and parts for solo percussion and percussion with other instruments. Most of the items bear Pugliese's performance markings. Others bear inscriptions from the composers to Pugliese. The collection also includes works composed or arranged by Pugliese.

The collection contains 55 manuscript scores, many of them reproductions by photocopy or ozalid, 1 published score, 3 compact discs containing mp3 audio files of 10 works, 2 audio compact discs, and 1 DVD.

The collection contains offprints of articles by Otto Kinkeldey and others, correspondence, documents related to the Committee on Graduate Study in Music (1938), Kinkeldey's transcriptions of musical works, and one of his own compositions.

Collection consists of 1 scrapbook of clippings about Pearl Radcliffe Lindal's career as a songwriter and eleven of her songs as published in collections. Material inserted into the scrapbook includes correspondence and additional prose writings by Lindal.

Contains correspondence, writings, concert programs, articles, scores, and recordings.

Musical scores, programs, and texts from some of the productions of the Quilting Club of the University of Rochester. There are gaps in the date range (1947-1956) for these materials.

The collection consists of personal and research papers belonging to Renée Levine Packer, including correspondence and files for her books: This life of sounds and Gay Guerrilla. It also includes recordings of interviews conducted by Levine-Packer for her book research as well as inscribed books and commercial recordings.