The Richard Beattie Davis Music Collection consists very largely of first and early editions of a wide variety of music, dating from the early 1790s to the first two decades of the twentieth century. There are full scores of first German editions of the nine symphonies of Beethoven and several other of his orchestral works, a miscellaneous collection of nineteenth century editions of choral, orchestral and piano music, and over 60 piano works of J. N. Hummel. There are also over two hundred Russian scores, almost all first editions dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution. There are over 60 chamber works by a variety of composers, complete with parts, available for use.

There is a separate Bessel Archives of over twenty scores included in the Richard Beattie Davis Collection by special permission of the granddaughters of the founders of the famous Russian music publishing house V. Bessel & Co. The Thomas B. Pitfield Collection includes musical and artistic works of the English composer, artist and designer. In addition, there is an unprocessed collection of compositions by Nathan Lupu of Boynton Beach, Florida, who studied with noted music theorist Thorvald Otterstrom of Chicago and Raul Spivak from Florida Atlantic University, in Boca Raton, Florida.