Department of Musical Arts

Music

Music and dance arts service The music and dance arts service is responsible for: – promoting music and dance arts education, in collaboration with the services of the Ministry of National Education; – ensuring the development and promotion of music and dance arts; – making music and dance arts known inside and outside the country; – coordinating the action of associations active in the field of music and dance arts, and supporting them.

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Organization

Our divisions

Music and Dance Arts Teaching Division

Division of music and dance arts teaching

The division of music and dance arts teaching is responsible for:

Encouraging the writing of music and dance arts;
Researching traditional musical instruments, studying them, making them and preserving them;
Developing the components of musical heritage and the art of dance;
Researching documents and works devoted to Mauritanian traditional music and popular dances, and working to record this heritage.

Only one division reports to it: the division for the promotion of musical works and dance arts.

Division of Creation, Musical Diffusion and Choreographic Arts

Division of creation and diffusion of music and dance arts

The division of creation and diffusion of music and dance arts is responsible for:

Organizing and/or supporting the diffusion of musical works and dance forms;
Contributing to the diffusion of musical or sung works by national musicians or from the classical heritage;
Creating conditions conducive to the emergence of individual or collective talents called to become national models;
Promoting the music that accompanies collective dances and dance works in general;
Disseminating musical works and dance works on all media;
Creating a traditional national orchestra (national choir) tasked with interpreting the traditional works of the national heritage on Mauritanian musical instruments;
Creating a modern national orchestra tasked with interpreting national musical works to world rhythms;
Forming national folk troupes tasked with making dance forms known and enriching national music.

Only one division reports to it: the division for research and conservation of musical and choreographic works.

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The workshops, creations and artistic life of the department.