Tumkur University grants Research Centre status to Music Academy

Updated on: Thursday, June 07, 2012

Tumkur University in Karnataka has granted the status of a Research Centre to Music Academy, an internationally acclaimed organisation in the field of carnatic music.

Announcing this, the Academy said in a press release that researchers could now enrol themselves with it for Ph.D and avail the guidance of stalwarts in the field.
   
N Murali Academy President said in a press release that In the last few years, the Academy has started an Advanced School of Carnatic Music with a three year diploma course for producing top class musicians. Keeping these in view, the Academy has been granted the Research Centre status by the Tumkur University.  
     
"The Academy is all set to raise the bar in the standards of research in the field of Carnatic Music", he said.
   
The 84-year old institution engaged in preserving, promoting and propagating Carnatic Music has also been a premier academic institution with a library comprising more than 5,000 specialised books, digital listening archives holding about 5,000 hours of music at present. It aims to digitize around 20,000 hours of music, it said

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