Composing the Music of Africa

Composing the Music of Africa
Author: Malcolm Floyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429864299

First published in 1999, this volume explores the great diversity of music created by African communities is reflected in this book, which discusses the ways in which a wide range of musical forms are composed and performed from Egypt to South Africa and from Ghana to Kenya. As two composers explain here, this diversity provides much inspiration for western contemporary composition. Particular attention is paid to the contexts generate musical creativity. Ceremonies and festivals celebrating birth, death, marriage or rites of passage provide the impetus for much composition and performance, enabling young people to pick up, early on, some of the techniques and styles of which they then become the new exponents. The book also looks at the role played by formal music education programmes and bodies such as the South African Music Rights Organization and the South African Broadcasting Corporation in fostering musical activity, as well as the contribution of composers to the social and political changes that have dominated South African life in recent years.

A Composer in Africa

A Composer in Africa
Author: Stephanus Muller
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1920109048

Grové was arguably the first composer to incorporate Black African elements into the fabric of his music, venturing far beyond mere couleur locale to forge a creative synthesis of the indigenous and the "Western". His vast oeuvre encompasses every genre, from opera and ballet to chamber music, orchestral works and song. But he is also a fine essayist, and his short fiction has received praise from André P. Brink. This is the first study of its kind to be devoted to a South African composer.

Black Composers of Southern Africa

Black Composers of Southern Africa
Author: Yvonne Huskisson
Publisher: HSRC Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780796912527

This publication contains details of a new up-and-coming generation of composers. It provides information on 318 composers and as such is a standard reference word on local composers.

Composing the Music of Africa

Composing the Music of Africa
Author: Malcolm Floyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2018-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429864302

First published in 1999, this volume explores the great diversity of music created by African communities is reflected in this book, which discusses the ways in which a wide range of musical forms are composed and performed from Egypt to South Africa and from Ghana to Kenya. As two composers explain here, this diversity provides much inspiration for western contemporary composition. Particular attention is paid to the contexts generate musical creativity. Ceremonies and festivals celebrating birth, death, marriage or rites of passage provide the impetus for much composition and performance, enabling young people to pick up, early on, some of the techniques and styles of which they then become the new exponents. The book also looks at the role played by formal music education programmes and bodies such as the South African Music Rights Organization and the South African Broadcasting Corporation in fostering musical activity, as well as the contribution of composers to the social and political changes that have dominated South African life in recent years.

African Music

African Music
Author: Francis Bebey
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999-08-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 161374661X

Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.

The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives

The Organ Works of Fela Sowande: Cultural Perspectives
Author: Godwin Sadoh
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2007-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0595915957

Nigeria has been blessed with a few well-trained organist-composers since the arrival of Christianity in the most populous African country around the 1840s. The institutions established by European missionaries and the colonial administration had a great impact on the emergence of the 'Nigerian organ school'. The musicians had their formative periods at the mission schools, church choirs, and under organ playing apprenticeships. This book focuses on selected organ works by the most celebrated African art musician, Fela Sowande, a Nigerian organist-composer. Fela Sowande is the first African to popularize organ works by natives of Africa in Europe and the United States. He was one of the pioneer composers to incorporate indigenous African elements such as folksongs, rhythms and other types of traditional source materials in solo works for organ. He is considered the most prolific Nigerian composer for solo organ in Nigeria. The discussion of Sowande's music enunciates the relationship between traditional and contemporary musical processes in postcolonial Nigeria. A cultural and/or ethnomusicological analysis of Sowande's selected pieces for organ solo involves an examination of specific indigenous source materials such as rhythmic organization, melodic constructs/thematic materials (music communication), interrelations of music and dance, and elements of musical conception.

Composers in South Africa Today

Composers in South Africa Today
Author: Peter Klatzow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1987
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book is a study of a group of composers who are living and working in South Africa today.

African Rhythms

African Rhythms
Author: Randy Weston
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0822393107

African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decades long musical career, his time living in Morocco, and his lifelong quest to learn about the musical and cultural traditions of Africa.

African Music

African Music
Author: Francis Bebey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1975
Genre: Music
ISBN:

Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. & A classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.