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The collections listed here are housed in either the Music Library, the Archive of Recorded Sound, or the Department of Special Collections, Green Library.  Please contact the appropriate library to arrange access.

Complete listing of collections

  • Monterey Jazz Festival logo

    The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection

    Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.

  • Gaetano Donizetti. Excerpt from Betly (La capanna svizzera). Original manuscript. 1836. MLM 264

    Memorial Library of Music

    Scores of operas, symphonic works, chamber music, and choral works by major composers from the 17th to 20th centuries.

  • Jascha Heifetz Collection

    The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.

  • Yehudi Menuhin

    Yehudi Menuhin Collection

    The Menuhin Collection contains many test pressings of Menuhin's performances as a violin soloist.

  • Mario Ancona

    Mario Ancona Collection

    The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.

  • Richard Bonelli Collection

    The Bonelli Collection includes letters, programs, scores, scrapbooks, recordings, posters, and news clippings.

  • Ruth and Mario Chamlee in Manon

    Ruth and Mario Chamlee Collection

    Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.

  • Richard Crooks as Pinkerton

    Richard Crooks Collection

    Richard Crooks was a tenor with the Metropolitan Opera Company.

  • Ted Fagan

    Theodore Fagan Collection

    This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.

  • Kirsten Flagstad

    Kirsten Flagstad Collection

    Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) was known as the premier Wagnerian soprano of her time.

  • Richard Finnie and friends

    Richard Finnie Collection

    Open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian Richard Sterling Finnie.

  • Lehmann as the Marschallin

    Gary Hickling Collection on Lotte Lehmann

    Includes correspondence and research notes related to Hickling's discography of Lehmann's performances.

  • Kronos Quartet (l-r: Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Jeffrey Zeigler, John Sherba)

    Kronos Quartet Collection

    The Kronos Quartet has donated part of its collection of chamber music to the Music Library. Some scores are integrated into the general scores collection; a large part of the collection has been inventoried and is stored off site.

  • Anne Parker Wigglesworth, Portrait of Henry Cowell. 1964. Oil on canvas, 92 x 60 cm. Gift of Henry Cowell Coolidge Wigglesworth.

    Henry Cowell Collection

    This collection contains Sydney Cowell's donations of published scores and recordings of her husband's music.

  • A glimpse of The Women's Philharmonic scores, shelved in the Music Reference Room.

    The Women's Philharmonic Collection

    From 1981 to 2004, The Women's Philharmonic was a San Francisco-based professional orchestra dedicated to the promotion of women composers, conductors, and performers.

  • Detail from engraving by P. Mignard.

    Lully Project

    The Lully Project is a repository of primary sources on microfilm originally gathered in support of publication of works of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687).

  • Ben Schmidt Collection of Lute and Viol Music

    The Schmidt Collection contains primarily photocopies of original and transcribed music for viol and lute gathered from a variety of libraries and archival repositories.

  • Detail from Danza Tropical (1922)

    Julio de Osma Collection

    The collection includes over 100 music manuscripts by Spanish composer Julio de Osma.

  • Antheil's signature

    George Antheil Collection

    George Antheil was an avant-garde composer and pianist whose performances caused riots. The collection consists of George Antheil's correspondence. All but one of the letters are photocopies; the dates range from 1920 to 1959.

  • Melinda's Wedding Day, by Goodwin/McCarthy/Piantadosi (c. 1913)

    Lucie King Harris Collection

    Lucie King Harris was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman. The Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund was the first endowed fund in Music at Stanford University. This collection of piano/vocal and solo piano music belonging to Lucie King Harris.

  • Florence Underwood

    Florence Underwood Collection

    Florence Underwood studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in the 1940s. The collection consists primarily of her written music and the research she conducted to write the music. In addition, scrapbooks, personal, and legal papers make up a portion of the collection.

  • The Williams Quartette

    Bob Arnold Collection

    Bob Arnold was a popular music historian and collector in Albany, California. His collection consists of his research and correspondence, and includes scrapbooks, program notes, interviews on cassette, and compilations on open reel tape drawn from his music collection. Perhaps his most successful project was about a 1930s jazz singer named Midge Williams.

  • Riverwalk Jazz logo

    Riverwalk Jazz Collection

    Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.

  • l to r: Jim Cullum Sr., Willson Davis, Louis Armstrong, Harvey Kindervater, and Jim Cullum Jr., 1965.

    Jim Cullum Collection

    Tape recordings of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band covering over 30 years of the band's performances. The collection also contains performances by other noteworthy performers including Jack Teagarden and Bobby Hackett.

  • Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, CA

    Ambassador Auditorium Collection

    Files of the organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings.

  • Catgut Acoustical Society logo

    Musical Acoustics Research Library

    The MARL collection consisting of nearly 60 linear feet of materials is dedicated to the study of all aspects of musical acoustics.

  • Donald Pippin

    Donald Pippin Collection

    The Donald Pippin Collection consists primarily of Pippin's English translations of opera librettos available as pdf files.

  • French Horn

    William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection

    The William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection principally consists of commercial and unpublished recordings of the world renowned British horn player, Dennis Brain (1921-1957).

  • Blanche Thebom as Laura, in La Gioconda

    Blanche Thebom Collection

    The Blanche Thebom Collection consists of scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from the mezzo-soprano's post-Met career as teacher and director.

  • KSFO logo circa 1950-1965

    KSFO Collection

    The KSFO collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983.

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