The collection consists of printed materials and correspondence compiled by the noted British music librarian, bibliographer, and musicologist Alec Hyatt King. The printed materials include offprints of articles, complete journal issues, exhibition catalogs, catalogs from music publishers and booksellers, membership lists and organizational histories, and concert programs.

The Allen Sapp Score Collection contains manuscript and holograph scores of works composed by Allen Sapp. The collection also contains some of Sapp's drafts, outlines, and twelve-tone row forms and matrices; as well as exercises, analysis, and arrangements of other composer's works completed while at Harvard University.

The Allen Sigel Collection of Scores, 1946-1998 contains approximately 27 compositions by Allen Sigel. Many of them are present in multiple versions. There are also ten works by other composers in arrangements by Sigel and three of his didactic works for clarinet.

The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1990 contains 383 images and eight clippings documenting the life and career of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.

Collection contains folders of documents pertaining to Bode Sound Company products, including the Barberpole Phaser, Frequency shifters, and Vocoder. It also contains material from R. A. Moog, Inc. about its model of a vocoder.

Buffalo Musicians' Association records dating from 1889 to the present. Bulk of collection includes meeting minutes and financial records. Collection contains materials from Local 43 (white musicians' union), Local 533 (black musicians' union), Local 92 (merger of Locals 43 and 533, still in existence), Local 649 (Hamburg, N.Y., merged with Local 92 in 1999), and general AFM records.

Contains 45 manuscript compositions, 4 manuscript arrangements, and 5 published compositions. It also contains an article written by Winning and two programs for concerts in Buffalo, New York.

Music librarian Carol June Bradley conducted interviews with 37 music Librarians from various institutions in the United States to research the history and practices of music librarianship.

Contains the extensive research papers of music librarian Carol June Bradley, including biographical information about fifteen American music librarians, files compiled in preparation of her history of music libraries in the United States, documents pertaining to the history of the Music Library Association, teaching materials used in courses in the Music Librarianship graduate program at the University at Buffalo, collected writings by other authors about librarianship, a bibliography of song literature for singers, her research about song literature, and her personal, business-related correspondence.

Contains eighteen photographs of Carol Plantamura with musicians associated with her time in Buffalo, including John Bergamo, Karl Kraber, Gregory Ketchum, Robert Dick, Yvar Mikhashoff, Buell Neidlinger, David Fuller, and Jeremy Noble.

The collection consists of 79 works by Morton Feldman in either score or part formats (72 scores; 7 sets of parts). All but one item are ink manuscripts on vellum. These served as the masters that Feldman submitted to C. F. Peters and Peters published directly from these masters. Almost all of the manuscripts are in Morton Feldman's hand, except for two scores copied by John Cage and three items in the hand of a music copyist.

Collection of seventeen (and one duplicate) theater broadsides dating from 1790-1868 for performances in Boston, Massachusetts (2), London, England (14), and York, England (1).

Collection of 125 complete pieces of sheet music from European countries: Austria (5), Belgium (6), England (54), France (9), Germany (31), Italy (14), and the Netherlands (5). Most of these include title page illustrations, about 30 of which are in color. The collection includes an additional 24 partial works, most of which consist only of their title pages. The musical content consists of 44 works for solo piano and approximately 75 works for some combination of voice and piano.

The collection contains 37 78 rpm 10-inch recordings, 1 7-inch 78 rpm recording, 1 5-inch 78 rpm recording, and 1 7-inch 45 rpm recording. The recordings are all commercial releases consisting of classical, ethnic, and popular music.

Collection of 92 pieces of sheet music, chiefly from the United States, most with title page illustrations.

The collection contains a small amount of correspondence, concert programs and advertisements, clippings, and photographs.

The collection contains fourteen documents, including twelve letters from Paër to associates and friends and two documents showing his services rendered for the fiscal years 1811 and 1813.

This is the largest collection of Ferdinand Praeger's manuscripts in the world, consisting of approximately 480 works. The majority of the works are for piano, but the collection also includes chamber music for strings, large ensemble works, vocal works, and sketches. The dated works range from 1829-1891, but many works are undated.

The collection contains scores and parts of original compositions and arrangements by Frederick Slee. It also includes transcriptions of works by composers such as J.S. Bach, Mozart, and Haydn, as well as a lesson for recorder.

The collection contains scores and parts of twenty original compositions by Friedrich Otto Trautmann, a composer and organist who lived in Germany and England in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

The collection contains 145 large format slides that form 37 sets corresponding to popular song lyrics.

The Helene Fesenmaier Collection of Morton Feldman Correspondence contains six manuscript letters by composer Morton Feldman written to artist Helene Fesenmaier. The collection also contains an annotated copy of a typescript version of Feldman's article, The Anxiety of art.

The records of Hilda Schieder's Drum Corps include meeting minutes, its constitution and bylaws, business correspondence, and three black and white photographs.

Contains 71 photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2000 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 48 photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2001 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 28 photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2002 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 61 photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2003 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 44 photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2004 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 47 photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2005 at the University at Buffalo

Contains 52 print photographs of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2006 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 248 digital images (tiff files) of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2007 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 234 digital images (tiff files) of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2008 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 142 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2009 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 134 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2010 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 70 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2011 at the University at Buffalo.

Contains 132 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo Festival 2012 at the University at Buffalo, including guest composers Fred Lerdahl, Steven Stucky, and Robert Beaser.

Contains 203 digital images of musicians who participated in the inaugural June in Buffalo Performance Institute and the June in Buffalo Festival 2013 at the University at Buffalo, including guest composers Raphaël Cendo, Brian Ferneyhough, Augusta Read Thomas, Charles Wuorinen, and Yehudi Wyner.

Contains 180 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo 2014 at the University at Buffalo, including guest composers Joshua Fineberg, Stephen Hartke, Philippe Hurel, Hilda Paredes, and Bernard Rands.

Contains 375 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo 2015 at the University at Buffalo and the associated June in Buffalo Performance Institute, including guest composers Roger Reynolds, Martin Bresnick, Brian Ferneyhough, August Read Thomas, Harvey Sollberger, Charles Wuorinen, and Steven Stucky.

Contains 314 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo 2016 at the University at Buffalo, including guest composers Hans Abrahamsen, Hanna Eimermacher, Joshua Fineberg, Josh Levine, and Chinary Ung.

Contains 250 digital images of musicians who participated in the June in Buffalo 2018 at the University at Buffalo, including guest composers John Harbison, Roger Reynolds, Hilda Paredes, Hans Thomalla, and Louis Karchin.

The Irene Haupt Photographs of Musicians in Buffalo contains images of composers and performers who have participated in new music events at the University at Buffalo ca. 1978-1999. Composers represented in the collection include Larry Austin, Milton Babbitt, Henry Brant, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Jacob Druckman, David Felder, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Lukas Foss, Ernst Krenek, Otto Luening, Conlon Nancarrow, Pauline Oliveros, Bernard Rands, Steve Reich, Poul Ruders, Frederic Rzewski, Ralph Shapey, Leo Smit, Virgil Thomason, Nils Vigeland, and Charles Wuorinen. Notable performers include Ursula Oppens, Yvar Mikhashoff, Frances-Marie Uitti, Jan Williams, Diamanda Galas, Miles Anderson, Leroy Jenkins, Malcolm Goldstein, and Carol Plantamura.

The collection chiefly consists of sales and auction catalogs from book and antiquarian dealers, with an emphasis on music. There are also some catalogs of personal collections included. Forty-nine of the items are photocopies and the remaining items are originals.

The collection contains 84 10-inch sound recordings of jazz, blues, ragtime, and boogie woogie.

The collection contains 7 audio cassettes of interviews James B. Coover conducted with William Arnold Reeves at his workplace in London, England, 1985-1992.

Contains the personal papers of music librarian James Burrell Coover, including various materials related to his educational and employment history; his consultant work; personal and business-related correspondence; awards, grants and fellowships; his involvement in professional organizations such as International Association of Music Libraries and the Music Library Association; his associations with Vassar College and University at Buffalo (SUNY), both as music library director and professor of music; collected publications and research materials; and his published and unpublished materials.

The James W. McKinnon Music Iconography Slide Collection consists of 2,380 slide reproductions of iconographic sources related to music. Images in the collection feature representations of musicians, instruments, and musical notation in manuscript illuminations, prints, engravings, oil paintings, sculptural and architectural works, mosaics, reliefs, and other artworks.

Scores owned by percussionist and conductor, Jan Williams. The majority of the scores were marked by Williams for use in performance. Some scores bear inscriptions from composers to Williams.

The Jan Williams Collection of Images contains images of various performances and trips made by Jan Williams with accompanying performers and composers. An original gift was received of 321 prints and contact sheets and 54 35mm slides in 2007. An additional gift was received of 173 photographs in 2008.

Chiefly secondary materials such as articles and symposium papers collected by John Clough, many with correspondence.

The collection contains scores of five compositions by John Myhill in varied states of completion and a folder of sketches and musical analyses. The collection also contains a folder of prose writings and a single piece of correspondence to Myhill.

The collection contains 227 images collected by Joseph Chouinard. The images provide documentation of his life from the age of about two years through age eighty. The collection contains images of his performances with opera companies in Maine, Binghamton, Buffalo, and elsewhere. The collection also contains images from the fourteen months Joseph Chouinard spent as a member of the United States Navy on Okinawa.

The collection contains scores of 33 musical works by composer, singer, and librarian Joseph Chouinard.

The collection contains personal documents, correspondence, concert programs, and clippings that document the life of singer and librarian Joseph Chouinard.

The June in Buffalo Papers consist of administrative papers created to run the music festival that ran 1975-1978, and 1980 at the State University of New York at Buffalo and clippings about the concerts.

A collection of 300 black and white photographs of ballet dancers and choreographers, chiefly from the 1950s. Many of the photographs bear inscriptions to Dr. Perry and a very small number were accompanied by correspondence or clippings.

Collection contains 23 folders of newspaper and magazine articles about singer Maria Callas. It also includes 7 folders of concert programs and Dr. Perry's bound scrapbook of Callas clippings.

Chiefly photographs of opera singers and productions, with additional photographs of other musicians, ensembles, and performing venues. Many of the photographs bear inscriptions to Dr. Perry.

Collection contains 85 items, including letters to Dr. Perry, autographed programs, and autographed cards. It also includes the collection, Following a Star that consists of mimeographed copies of letters written by May Higgens to members of the Claudia Muzio Fan Club.

Contains 6 cassette recordings of interviews conducted with collector J. Warren Perry and 2 VHS tapes of events in which he was featured.

Collection contains 6 folders of papers related to Perry's association with the Chicago Lyric Opera and 48 folders of clippings he compiled about vocalists, instrumentalists, conductors, and music halls.

The Kathryn McCarthy Papers contain a bound notebook of notes from music lessons and correspondence between McCarthy and Schillinger System teacher, Richard Benda.

The collection contains Lejaren Hiller's personal collections of reel to reel tapes pertaining to his compositional output. It includes recordings of live performances of works as well as recordings of some of the electronic source materials used in other compositions.

Flow charts created for computer music composition by Lejaren Hiller and included as figures and illustrations in his published articles about the processes used in writing computer music, including his works, , and . The collection also contains unidentified flow charts and diagrams, as well as negatives of other charts created by Hiller.

The Leo Smit Interviews with Tina Pelikan were recorded on nine audio-cassettes during a cross-country drive from New York to California in 1992. The conversations focus upon the life and career of Leo Smit. The cassettes are accompanied by five color photographs taken during the trip.

The Leo Smit Papers comprise works lists compiled by Leo Smit, articles written by Smit, personal correspondence (chiefly photocopies of letters from Aaron Copland), programs, reviews, and lecture materials.

Chiefly black and white photographs documenting Leo Smit's life and career in music.

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 Leo Smit Slide Collection contains approximately 13,705 35 millimeter slides taken by American composer, Leo Smit. The contents include images of notable musicians, images used in his lecture recitals, and images taken during his many journeys in the United States and abroad, including Central and South America, Italy, and various other European countries.

The collection contains 192 photographs from the personal collection of composer, arranger, and pianist, Livingston Gearhart. They include photographs of Nadia Boulanger and her summer class of 1938 at the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau, Gearhart and his first wife and duo-piano partner, Virginia Morley, Darius Milhaud and his family, and the Budapest String Quartet. The collection also includes four photographs of composer Johannes Brahms in 1896.

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.

The collection of Livingston Gearhart Papers contains prose writings, vitae, correspondence, teaching materials, programs, and clippings.

The collection of Livingston Gearhart Recordings contains reel to reel and cassette tapes, compact discs, and LPs containing music composed, arranged, or performed by Livingston Gearhart.

The collection contains research notes, journal articles, and copies of source materials collected 1975-1978. The focus of the research is music by Alessandro Stradella (1644-1682) and Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (circa 1656-circa 1710-15) and other 17th century Italian composers.

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 Michael Pugliese Papers consist of copies of his curriculum vitae, a small selection of programs of concerts in which he performed, reviews and clippings, and correspondence.

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.

Seventeen black and white photographs of storefront churches in Buffalo including interior shots during services and exterior shots of the buildings. This small collection chiefly focuses on the musical activities during the church services.

The Mischa Schneider Collection of Test Pressing Recordings contains fifty-one sound recordings on 12-inch discs. The content includes eighteen recordings of performances by the Budapest String Quartet and twelve recordings issued by the Marlboro Recording Society.

The Morton Feldman Collection of Audio Recordings contains 52 reel to reel tapes and 35 cassette recordings, including performances of 38 compositions by Morton Feldman. The collection also includes some events, including the conversations between John Cage and Feldman recorded in 1966 as Radio Happenings I and II, the memorial service for Feldman at St. Mark's Church in New York City, a tribute radio program broadcast by WNYC 7 November 1987 in New York City, and an interview of Jan Williams by Sebastian Claren about Feldman. Other composers represented by recordings include Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Barbara Monk Feldman, and Bunita Marcus.

The Morton Feldman Images by Jan Williams date from concert tours made by Morton Feldman and the University at Buffalo's Creative Associates in 1974, 1977, and 1979.

The Morton Feldman Papers comprise personal and business correspondence, writings by and about Feldman, clippings, programs, and photographs.

A collection of calendars with music-themed artwork and text, mostly published in the United States and Germany.

The images in the collection provide documentation of performances at the University at Buffalo by Music Dept. faculty and visiting artists, especially in the realm of contemporary music. Among the many notable composers represented in the collection are: Earle Brown, Harrison Birtwistle, Pauline Oliveros, Colin Bright, Julius Eastman, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Cornelius Cardew, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Elliott Carter, David Del Tredici, Harold Shapero, Ralph Shapey, Ingolf Dahl, Henri Pousseur, Philip Glass, George Crumb, Fredric Myrow, Leon Kirchner, George Rochberg, New Rorem, Allen Sapp, Toru Takemitsu, Morton Subotnick, Leo Smit, and Augusta Read Thomas.

The images in this collection include scenes of music venues at the Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo in 1901, including the Temple of Music, the Midway, and bandstands. The collection also contains images of musicians who performed at the Exposition and musical instruments used at the Exposition.

Collection of holograph materials collected by the Music Library, including letters by composers such as Béla Bartók, Arnold Bax, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, and Richard Wagner, as well as other musicians.

This archive contains documents related to the planning and production the North American New Music Festival, a series of annual festivals of contemporary art music sponsored by the University at Buffalo Department of Music from 1983 to 1993, in 1995, and in 1996.

Contains sound recordings on 390 cassettes and 22 reels of performances from the North American New Music Festival, a series of annual festivals of contemporary art music sponsored by the University at Buffalo Department of Music from 1983 to 1993. The collection contains recordings of circa 720 musical works composed by about 334 different composers, including most of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. Many works were rehearsed and prepared with their respective composers in attendance and performers at the festival were chiefly specialists in new music.

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.

The Pamela Gearhart Papers contain a biographical summary, curriculum vitae, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and programs.

Thirty-five titles of sheet music related to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and one title related to an exposition held in 1905 in Buffalo. All but nine of the titles are photocopies of works in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.

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.

The collection contains 172 original reel to reel tape recordings of 113 recitals containing approximately 613 works. The works range from the Renaissance to music created for the concerts, even improvised at the events. The reels are accompanied by audio cassette recordings created as service copies and a hard drive containing digitally reformatted preservation and access files.

The collection contains recordings of 93 of the approximately 173 concerts presented at the Evenings for New Music concerts from 1964-1980. Approximately 464 works were recorded as well as some spoken introductions to works by their respective composers. The original recordings were made on reel-to-reel tapes. The contents were transferred to cassettes in the 1980s and then digitally reformatted in 2007 onto CDs (service and in-house masters) and DVDs (preservation masters).

The collection contains recordings of fifty-one of the fifty-three concerts presented at the June in Buffalo festival from 1975-1978 and in 1980. Approximately 216 works were recorded as well as some spoken introductions to works by their respective composers. The collection also contains recordings of three of the five lecture-seminars presented by John Cage during June in Buffalo 1975.

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.

Collection contains clippings, obituaries, correspondence, eighteen photographs of Alice and Frederick Slee, family, and friends, writings by Frederick Slee, documents about the Slee Bequest to the University of Buffalo, concert programs, and a log of a twenty-one day sailing trip undertaken by Frederick Slee and two friends in 1914. The log details their adventures along the northern shore of Lake Ontario.

The collection of Slee Lecture Recital Recordings contains 94 reel to reel tapes of lectures by the named Slee Visiting Lecturer in the Music Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

The collection chiefly consists of correspondence between thirty-two composers being considered or invited to fill the position of Slee Visiting Professor in Music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. It also contains clippings pertaining to the composers.