Associate of the Royal College of Music ( ARCM ) was a professional qualification awarded by the Royal College of Music . Like the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM), it was offered in teaching or performing.
6-678: There is no obvious successor to the ARCM qualification since the RCM undergraduates now follow a B.Mus(Hons) course accredited by the Royal College of Music. However in 2012 approximately a quarter of the academic staff included ARCM in their lists of qualifications. When the basic Graduate course led to the Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music (GRSM) diploma, a condition of graduating
12-583: A one year's post graduate study at a college of education in the UK. Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music ( GRSM ) was a professional diploma of graduate status (equivalent to a university first degree) that was open to both internal students of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music after joint examination. Candidates followed
18-699: A similar model: Trinity College of Music awarded the GTCL graduate diploma and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama the GGSM diploma. Like the GRSM, they have been replaced. The Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music diploma, open to all students of the Royal Academy of Music, in either instrumental teaching or performing was usually taken by examination in the second year of the GRSM course. Similarly
24-540: A three-year course including: first and second instrumental or vocal studies, harmony and counterpoint, aural training, history and analysis, conducting, composition and arrangement, and an academic thesis. The former Royal Manchester College of Music, now the Royal Northern College of Music, also awarded the diploma GRSM (Manchester). The graduate diploma awarded in London was phased out in the 1990s. When
30-516: The Royal Academy became a full college of the University of London , the GRSM, along with the non-graduate Performers' Course, was replaced by the award of the BMus (London) for all successful undergraduate students. The Royal College of Music devised its own BMus course which (uniquely among conservatories) it was entitled by Royal Charter to award. The other mainline British music colleges followed
36-540: Was an ARCM pass in Teaching or Performing. Those awarded the diploma are entitled to use the post-nominal letters ARCM and to wear the appropriate academic dress: black bachelors' gown with a royal blue silk hood of simple shape, the cowl part-lined 3 inches and bound 1/4 inch with old gold silk, the neckband fully lined and bound 1/4 inch of old gold silk. Holders of the ARCM qualification were able to obtain fully qualified teacher status following successful completion of
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