Collection KDMU - MUSIC: King's College London departmental records

Key Information

Reference code

KDMU

Title

MUSIC: King's College London departmental records

Date(s)

  • 1964-1984 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

10 boxes

Scope and content

Music Department and Faculty of Music records, chiefly comprising correspondence and minutes, 1964-1984; notably including minutes of the Faculty board, 1977-1984; minutes of the King's College Music Society, 1978-1980; correspondence mainly relating to examinations, including student assessments, external moderation and timetables, but also including papers concerning staff lecture tours, the purchase of musical instruments, building work within the department; correspondence of (Robert) Thurston Dart, King Edward Professor of Music, 1964-1971, chiefly in his capacity as head of faculty.

System of arrangement

Broadly chronological.

General Information

Name of creator

(1986-)

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.

Name of creator

(1964-1985)

Biographical history

Custodial history

King's College London Department of Music.

Conditions governing access

Administrative records are generally closed for 20 years except for published material and some committee and other minutes.

Files containing personal data are closed for 80 years and sensitive personal data for 100 years from the date of the most recent document in the file.

Where open, access is subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Uploaded finding aid

Existence and location of originals

Off-campus collection

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Related materials

King's College London Music Student Records (Ref: KCLCA KFM/FP, KFM/FPPG, KFM/FP(JYA)); examination question papers (Ref: KCLCA K/EX); Secretarial series (Ref: KCLCA KAS/AC2).

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Archivist's note

Sources used: King's College Calendars. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.

Accession area