Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music

Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music (GRSM) was a professional diploma of

GTCL

graduate diploma and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama the GGSM diploma. Like the GRSM, they have been replaced.

The

ARCM

was a requirement at the college for those taking the GRSM.

Those awarded the Graduate Diploma (by the Royal Academy and Royal College) are entitled to use the post-nominal letters GRSM (London) and to wear the appropriate academic dress: black bachelors' gown with scarlet silk hood of full Cambridge shape, the cowl part-lined 3 inches and bound 1/4 inch with royal blue silk, the neckband fully lined and bound 1/4 inch of royal blue silk.^[2]

References

^ GRSM (London) Syllabus, 1974
^ Academical Dress of Music Colleges and Societies of Musicians in the United Kingdom: With Notes on Degrees and Diplomas in Music of Certain Other Institutions by Nicholas Groves and John Kersey. (Burgon Society, 2002)

[1] GRSM (London) Syllabus, 1974

[2] Academical Dress of Music Colleges and Societies of Musicians in the United Kingdom: With Notes on Degrees and Diplomas in Music of Certain Other Institutions by Nicholas Groves and John Kersey. (Burgon Society, 2002)

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