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.

Brenda Miller Cooper was an American operatic soprano who was a regular performer at New York City Opera from 1947 to the early 1960s. The materials in this collection were compiled by Brenda Miller Cooper during the premiere of Douglas Moore's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, Giants in the Earth, in 1951 at Columbia University, in which she created the role of Beret.

The records of the Columbia University Orchestra include 323 reel-to-reel tapes of performances by the Columbia University Orchestra and Composers String Quartet. Also includes print material and photographs relating to the orchestra kept by its conductor Howard Shanet.

David Nadien was an American classical violinist and Mannes College of Music teacher. The collection includes programs, contracts, reviews, biographies, obituaries, awards and honors, photographs, public relations materials, a small amount of correspondence, sheet music, and a 1952 "Seasons Greetings" ceramic plate from the television variety show, "Your Show of Shows."

This collection contains records and ephemera from the Department of Music.

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

The Group for Contemporary Music records document the function of an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music, dating from 1961 to 2012. The records consist of correspondence, photographs, programs, memoranda, schedules, meeting notes, clippings, contracts, bills, financial records, fund raising and grant applications, and so on.

The collection consists of correspondence, documents, clippings, music programs, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia relating to the musical career of Hermann Dossenbach. Also present in the collection is Dossenbach's masonic Corinthian Temple Lodge pin.

Photographs, clippings, and programs, as well as inscribed copies of her books, FAITH IS A SONG and YOUR VOICE AND YOU. Portions of the typescript and autograph manuscripts of the latter book are also included.

Julius Rudel (1921-2014) was an opera and orchestra conductor who graduated from the Mannes School of Music in 1942. He served as music director for several organizations, most notably as director and principal conductor for New York City Opera from 1957 to 1979. The collection includes annotated conducting scores, notes, a scrapbook of news clippings, programs and playbills, correspondence, biographical material, and photographs.