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Annual Report of the Delegacy xcvii zio and Luigi d'Este' John Stevens Patrick Boyde and Iain Fenlon Cambridge 'The relationship of words and music in the sixteenth- century Madrigal' Hans Keller 'Musicology-a pseudo-science' and Stanley Sadie with Professor Η Brown 'The nature of musical journalism criticism and scholarship' The Faculty was also host to six Special University Lectures given by Lloyd on Folk-Music and the Folk Musician It continued to be host to the Royal Musical Associ- ation now celebrating its 100th year and to the Ethnomusicology Panel of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Perhaps the most important development during the year has been the creation under Professor Brown's chairmanship of new syllabus for the Mus degree to come into operation in October 1975 This follows the University's general trend towards decentralisation It establishes three-year course of full-time study of which two initial years of College-based teaching assessment and examination overlap with two years of study towards the University final examination It will allow the Faculty at King's College as well as the departments at Royal Holloway College Goldsmiths' College and the Colleges of Music to develop more strongly their own special characteristics and fields of study The syllabus has now been approved by the Uni- versity The Faculty Working Collection of books records and photographic materials was placed at the beginning of the Session under the responsi- bility of the Librarian of King's College From that time on it has formed an integral part of the College Library known as the Music Library though remaining at 152 153 Strand Professor Thurston Dart's personal library has remained on loan to the Faculty pending decision as to its future and is being administered by the Librarian The Faculty has continued to supply some of the teaching needs of the Royal College of Music the Royal Academy of Music Trinity College of Music and Goldsmiths' College by inviting the attendance of students from those institutions at its lectures There was an increase in the number of Subsidiary Music candidates during the Session Particularly successful has been the teaching of the Half Course-Unit in Music There are five students from Civil and Mechanical Engineer- ing and one from the Mathematics Department of Queen Mary College -a new and welcome departure The Faculty held its first Music Week on September 26th-29th 1973 four days of music making informal talks and concert visits