Music Research Guide - National Library of AustraliaMusic research guide for the National Library of Australia, which has the largest collection of sheet music in the country, comprising of over 300,000 items. The bulk of the collection relates to Australian composers, performers and music publishing houses. In the collection you will find :
- Australian published and unpublished sheet music covering a range of musical styles (most pre-1938 publications are digitised),
- historical and contemporary music, in notated form,
- archives of composers, performers and music organisations,
- memorabilia and photographs capturing musical performance and music trade,
- archival sound recordings of folk music and dance,
The NLA primarily collects music in notated form (sheet music), including both published and unpublished (manuscript) scores.