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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 KCLCA KFM/FP, KFM/FPPG, KFM/FP(JYA)
- Title
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Department of Music student records
- Date(s)
- [1964]-1996
- Level of description
- Series level descriptions of King's College London Archives
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 78 boxes
Context
- Name of creator(s)
King's College London Faculty of Music/Department of Music
- Administrative / Biographical history
Vocal music was a subject taught in the Department of General Literature and Science between 1843 and 1915. Music was an externally examined subject within the University of London from around 1900 until the University of London King Edward Chair was converted into a full-time professorship based at King's College in a new Faculty of Music in 1964. The Faculty of Arts and Music was created in 1986, which became a part of the School of Humanities in 1989.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
King's College London Department of Music
Content & structure
- Scope and content
King's College London Faculty/Department of Music undergraduate and postgraduate student files, [1964]-[1985], undergraduate files, 1984, 1986-1996 (Ref: KFM/FP), postgraduate files 1965, 1978, 1980-1983, 1986-1996, Junior Year Abroad student files (Ref: KFM/FP(JYA)). Information typically contained includes student correspondence, examination correspondence, examination assessments and performance assessments, pass lists, payment to examiners, music sheets. In some cases subsequent career details are given. Junior Year Abroad refers to the ERASMUS/SOCRATES undergraduate exchange programme, with files covering those students who spend a year studying Music at King's.
- Accruals
Periodic deposits by the Department
- System of arrangement
Undergraduate and postgraduate mixed series files [1964]-[1985] are listed alphabetically in one continuous run. Undergraduate files from 1984 onwards are arranged by year of leaving, then alphabetically within each year. Postgraduate files are arranged by year of leaving, then alphabetically within each year. Junior Year Abroad student files are arranged in an alphabetical run.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
Subject to an eighty year closure period from date of leaving, but may be consulted by Departmental and other appropriate College staff with permission from the Head of the Department.
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, can be supplied to Departmental staff. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
Lists are available for consultation in the King's College London Archives Reading Room.
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
King's College London Faculty of Arts/School of Humanities Student Records (Ref: KFA, KSH), Faculty/Department of Music Records (Ref: KCLCA 1984 KFM, 1986 KDM).
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: King's College London catalogues. Compiled by Beverley Ager as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
- Rules or conventions
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
August 2002
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Subjects
- Cultural education
- Educational evaluation
- Educational levels
- Educational programmes
- Educational statistics
- Enrolment
- Exchange programmes
- Higher education
- Higher education institutions
- Music education
- Student evaluation
- Student exchange
- Students
- Universities
- University students
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
- King's College London, Department/Faculty of Music
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