Collection of Berklee College of Music academic publications
Scope and Contents
The Collection of Berklee College of Music academic publications has been collated from a number of different sources, primarily the Berklee Office of Public Information records by Alma Berk (BCA-013) and a donation from Berklee's Vice President for Academic Affairs/Vice Provost, S. Jay Kennedy. Though the bulk of the collection are course catalogs for student registration (known throughout the years as catalogs, registration manuals, career grids, and bulletins), the collection also contains other publications put out by Berklee College of Music, such as newsletters, convocation reports, and prospectuses. The course catalogs cover 42 of Berklee's first 59 years of operation, and these catalogs provide great insight into both the roots and growth of Berklee's curriculum.
Dates
- 1949-2017
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
Arrangement
This collection is organized by publication type, and chronologically within those publication types.
Digitized Materials
Selected materials have been digitized and are available online here
- Title
- Collection of Berklee College of Music academic publications, 1949-2017
- Status
- In Process
- Author
- Amanda Axel
- Date
- 2018/12/10
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
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