Add to ORKGThis essay explores text-setting in two Nigerian tone languages through composition and re-composition exercises. Writing music based on indigenous language texts remains an essential aspect of maintaining artistic and cultural continuity with pre-colonial musical traditions
Art. Music in Nigeria is essentially a ‘literary genre’. For works in the idiom to be analysed, unde...
Àpàlà and Sákárà are Yorùbá musical genres w...
The pluralistic nature of contemporary Nigerian music culture mirrors its deep historical roots, rev...
Language is defined as “the system of sounds and words used by humans to express their thought...
A unique peculiarity of African art music is the employment of traditional musical elements as resou...
Composing modern African art music from the African stock has drawn the attention of many African an...
The need to replicate Nigerian musical elements in art music composition is always emphasized in con...
In the past, articulation of traditional musical arts offered the Nigerian child opportunity for dem...
This paper attempts an investigation of the creative processes of Nigerian music and the various gen...
The introduction of European culture and Christianity to Nigeria in the second half of the nineteent...
Art music in the Nigerian context is the composition of Nigerians who have formal music training and...
In the 1960s, there were reports from post colonial West Africa of a somewhat unflinching loyalty to...
The search for Nigerian-based content and methodology for music education has been one of the primar...
Nigeria stocks some amount of art music compositions for different media. Of these creative works vo...
Like melody, language and rhythm, pitch and tonality are major indicators of African identity in mus...
Art. Music in Nigeria is essentially a ‘literary genre’. For works in the idiom to be analysed, unde...
Àpàlà and Sákárà are Yorùbá musical genres w...
The pluralistic nature of contemporary Nigerian music culture mirrors its deep historical roots, rev...
Language is defined as “the system of sounds and words used by humans to express their thought...
A unique peculiarity of African art music is the employment of traditional musical elements as resou...
Composing modern African art music from the African stock has drawn the attention of many African an...
The need to replicate Nigerian musical elements in art music composition is always emphasized in con...
In the past, articulation of traditional musical arts offered the Nigerian child opportunity for dem...
This paper attempts an investigation of the creative processes of Nigerian music and the various gen...
The introduction of European culture and Christianity to Nigeria in the second half of the nineteent...
Art music in the Nigerian context is the composition of Nigerians who have formal music training and...
In the 1960s, there were reports from post colonial West Africa of a somewhat unflinching loyalty to...
The search for Nigerian-based content and methodology for music education has been one of the primar...
Nigeria stocks some amount of art music compositions for different media. Of these creative works vo...
Like melody, language and rhythm, pitch and tonality are major indicators of African identity in mus...
Art. Music in Nigeria is essentially a ‘literary genre’. For works in the idiom to be analysed, unde...
Àpàlà and Sákárà are Yorùbá musical genres w...
The pluralistic nature of contemporary Nigerian music culture mirrors its deep historical roots, rev...