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Over the years, the CAMM has organized and hosted several major events of a scientific nature including a colloquium entitled “Connections and Interactions between Arab and Mediterranean Music” in which no less than 50 musicologists from all over the world participated.

 Round tablse devoted to the future of the European lute and the Arab oud, to the oriental violon, the ney, the qanoun and percussion instruments, also brought together participants from all horizons. Evening concerts were organized parallel to all these scientific activities and served as illustrations of the scientific debates and conferences presented by specialists.

An international colloquium on the personality and the work of Manoubi Snoussi, one of the pioneers of musicology in Tunisia as well as a great connoisseur of Tunisian and Arab musical traditions was also organized. At the same time as the latter colloquium, the centre also held a documentary exhibition on the life and work of Manoubi Snoussi.

 

Musicological activities also involve organology. Indeed, the CAMM musical instrument workshop is seeking to do research on musical instrument making and revive ancestral instrument-making techniques. In 1992, the workshop organized a national Tunisian oud-making competition and carried out a pilot operation consisting of reconstructing an oud (Arab lute) from a Xth century manuscript.  The workshop is also devoted to the restoration and maintenance of the CAMM’s collection of musical instruments.

 

The promotion and dissemination of studies and research on music as well as the constitution of musical heritage are also part of the Centre’s fundamental missions. Within this framework, the CAMM embarked on a far-reaching operation in 1998 aimed at getting together and publishing a series of radio programmes (188 in all) produced and broadcast in the sixties and that covered all aspects of Tunisian music. 

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