Music can be a powerful and reliable cue for autobiographical memory retrieval. Autobiographical memories include event-specific knowledge, general events and lifetime periods. Previous research has examined how musical cues trigger autobiographical memories. In this research we tested the relationship between music and autobiographical memory without using music as an initial cue. Participants were 43 undergraduate psychology students. Data were collected as part of a course assignment on autobiographical memory. Participants wrote descriptions of up to 15 autobiographical memories and rated each memory for arousal, valence and vividness/specificity. Participants were later asked to indicate if any memories corresponded to a specific musical piece that was encoded at the time the memory occurred. A total of 617 memories were described including event-specific memories (543), general events (53) and lifetime periods (21). Music was associated with 34.8% of the event-specific memories, as were 52.8% of general event memories and 61.9% of lifetime period memories. Emotional arousal was positively associated with music frequency. This research adds to existing knowledge of the relationship between autobiographical memory and music. Furthermore, because we did not use music as a cue to elicit memories, our data demonstrate the extent to which music is independently associated with autobiographical memory.