Collection of Berklee College of Music academic publications, 1949-2017
Scope and Contents
Collection of academic publications and informational circulars produced by Berklee College of Music, primarily course catalogs and college bulletins, career grids, registration manuals, and prospectuses. The collection documents decades of Berklee's academic offerings and operations, and provides insight into the roots and evolution of Berklee's curriculum. This collection was assembled from multiple sources and accruals are expected.
Dates
- Creation: 1949-2017
Creator
- Berklee College of Music. Office of the Registrar (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Change to: Collection is open for research by appointment. Advance notice is required for access because materials are stored offsite.
Selected materials have been digitized and are available online here
Biographical / Historical
Berklee College of Music was founded by Lawrence Berk in 1945, under the name Schillinger House. Though Berk's initial intention was to train musicians in the Schillinger System of Musical Composition (SSOMC), Schillinger House soon outgrew its name and was renamed Berklee School of Music in 1954; subsequently, the school was again renamed Berklee College of Music in 1970. An ever-expanding community, Berklee opened its first international campus in Valencia, Spain, in 2012 and underwent a historic merger with The Boston Conservatory in 2016. The core curriculum of arranging, composition, and ear training still exists today, and can be seen in course catalogs from the 1940s through the present day.
Extent
10 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection of academic publications and informational circulars produced by Berklee College of Music, primarily course catalogs and college bulletins, career grids, registration manuals, and prospectuses. The collection documents decades of Berklee's academic offerings and operations, and provides insight into the roots and evolution of Berklee's curriculum.
Arrangement
This collection is organized by publication type, and chronologically within those publication types.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection has been assembled from a number of different sources, primarily the Berklee Office of Public Information records by Alma Berk (BCA-013), the Larry Bethune papers (BCA-061), and Berklee College of Music Vice President for Academic Affairs/Vice Provost, S. Jay Kennedy. Accruals are expected.
Digitized Materials
Selected materials have been digitized and are available online here
Subject
- Berklee College of Music (Organization)
- Title
- Collection of Berklee College of Music academic publications, 1949-2017
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Amanda Axel
- Date
- 2018/12/10
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Berklee Archives Repository
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston St
Boston MA 02215 USA
617-747-8001
archives@berklee.edu