The SCRSS Library's music collection reflects the important part played by music in Russian and Soviet culture, with recordings, printed scores, and books about music and musicians.

The recordings collection (predominantly on vinyl) covers folk music, individual artistes, and works by a wide range of 19th and 20th century Russian and Soviet composers, both classic and lesser known composers from the former Soviet republics.

The music scores range from Russian and Soviet classical composers to folk music, including some rare items.

The book collection includes specialist publications on music criticism (Stasov, Asafiev and others), musical education and theory, as well as biographies of composers and performers.