The historical development of modern Ghanaian Art Music is very similar to that of Nigeria. As in Nigeria, the activities of British colonial administrators, missionaries and teachers helped to introduce and consolidate the practice and consumption of European liturgical Christian music as well as E...

3. Nigerian Composers and National Culture: A stylistic survey of Nigerian Art Music

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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Although it was through the Church that the concept of music as a contemplative art received widespread popularity in Nigeria, it was left to the efforts of formally trained composers and musicologists to forge new idioms and styles in their works to develop a modern tradition of Nigerian Art Music....

7. Towards an Anthology of Nigerian Art Music

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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Art. Music in Nigeria is essentially a ‘literary genre’. For works in the idiom to be analysed, understood or performed by students, scholars and performers, they have to be available in clear and legible notation. As of now, most of the works in the idiom are yet to be published and exist only in s...

9. Summary and Conclusion

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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The discussion running through this book has shown various compositional techniques through which Nigerian and Ghanaian composers have attempted to incorporate elements from traditional African music into their works. On the one hand, we have works such as Kyrie and the Folk Symphony which are conce...

1. Introduction

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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Although a considerable amount of research has been carried out on traditional African music, contemporary musical idioms in Africa have received limited attention by scholars. It is only in recent times that scholars began to accept the fact that, while the preservation and documentation of traditi...

6. Vocal Works

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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1. PART SONGS Linguistic Demands and Musical Considerations The writing of part songs which make use of a text in a traditional language poses a considerable challenge to Nigerian composers, especially when the pre-compositional demand of text (that is, the need to maintain the linguistic contour of...

2. Historical Background of Modern Nigerian Art Music

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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European influenced musical idioms have been emerging in Nigeria since the beginning of this century. These idioms can be classified into four distinct categories: indigenous church music, urban syncretic popular forms, modern folk opera and Nigerian modern Art Music. The emergence of these forms is...

4. African Pianism

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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For those composers interested in cross-cultural musical synthesis (there is) a... line of evolution in the use of the Western pianoforte in combination with African drums and other instruments of percussion. The piano already displays certain affinities with African music, and by creating a type of...

5. Orchestral Works

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Bode Omojola (4 avr. 2013)

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There are only a few European-type orchestras in Nigeria. The most outstanding of them are the Apostolic Faith Orchestras in Ibadan and Lagos. Because symphony orchestras are not the norm in Nigeria, composers often prefer to write works for solo instruments, chamber orchestra and choirs, which can...

Nigerian Art Music

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Bode Omojola et al. (4 avr. 2013)

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ART MUSIC IN NIGERIA is the most comprehensive book on the works of modem Nigerian composers who have been influenced by European classical music. Relying on over 500 scores, archival materials and interviews with many Nigerian composers, the author traces the historical developments of this new idi...

Ọmọ̀jọ́lá, Bodé. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency and Performance Practice

Recensions

Gilles-Félix Vallier (11 janv. 2017)

Recensions

Ọmọ̀jọ́lá, Bodé. — Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century : Identity, Agency and Performance Practice. New York, University of Rochester Press ; Eastman, Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology, 2012, 285 p., bibl., ill., CD. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century de Bodé Ọmọ̀jọ́lá déconstruit efficace...

Foreword

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Mosunmola Omibiyi-Obidike (4 avr. 2013)

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Articles on Nigerian Art Music exist in various specialist journals and magazines, but many of these accounts are often not much more than anecdotes by enthusiasts and non specialists. European musicologists have, by and large, concentrated their studies on traditional African music. Nigerian Art Mu...