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Country:
GUYANA
State:
City:
GEORGETOWN
Street Address:
Turkeyen campus: Greater Georgetown, Guyana
Postal Address:
PO Box 101110, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana
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Types:
Eurhythmics/Dalcroze Ethnomusicology/World Music Kodály Library Collections Orff Schulwerk Sound Archives Traditional Instrument Performance
Program:
Undergraduate program
Details:
Bachelor of Arts (BA). Music is available as a minor study.
Program:
Programs
Details:
Associate Degree in Music. Two years. Courses in performance (piano, voice, guitar, drumming, steel pan), arranging for pan, history of Western music, history, form and style of music in the Caribbean, pedagogy, music education, with some study of world systems - Orff, Kodály, Dalcroze. On completion of the course students are eligible to teach music in schools.
Certificate in Music (Pan). Two years, part-time. Classes are scheduled between 3.15 and 7.15 allowing students to take other employment.
Institution Notes:
The university was established in 1963. There is a second campus in Berbice. The Amerindian Research Unit has a collections of tapes of indigenous Guyanese music. The library holds some manuscripts of Caribbean and Guyanese composers.