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University of Sindh plans music school
HYDERABAD, Aug 2: The University of Sindh will establish a centre at the
Institute of Sindhology to teach music and conduct research on it. This was
decided in a meeting convened on Wednesday in light of the recommendations of a
committee, headed by eminent scholar Dr. N. A. Baloch.
The meeting, while
unanimously endorsing the recommendations of the committee, finalised the
objectives of the centre, including research on Shah Latif jo Raag and Sufi
music of Sindh, collection and preservation of different types of music
instruments used in Sindh and research on the instruments and vocalists
including folk singers.
The meeting unanimously decided to appointment an
executive committee, to be headed by Dr Baloch, to run the centre. It
constituted a five- member committee to draft certificate and diploma courses to
be offered by the centre and prepare a report about the possibility of
introduction of music as an optional subject with the degree programme in the
Arts faculty.
The meeting agreed in principal to appointment Ustad Ameer
Ali as a music instructor in the centre. App
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