http://repository.unn.edu.ng/handle/123456789/296 2026-09-02T20:27:03Z 2026-09-02T20:27:03Z Eze, Samson Uchenna http://repository.unn.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9162 2021-07-19T10:31:03Z 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z

Echoes from Nigeria with the Saxophone (A Recital of Solo Saxophone and band) Eze, Samson Uchenna The popularity and mass appeal of saxophone as a sonorous solo instrument is evident in its use in various categories of global music events, concerts and shows. In Nigeria, it is preponderantly used in most popular music genres such as the West African highlife, reggae, and hip-hop. A leading perspective in Western art music practice has been to view music performance as the reproduction or realization of music scores which gives the performer the task to communicate a musical work from its notated state. However, such perception has drastically changed across various musical cultures because of the audience’s interest in the ingenuity of the performer. This recital, therefore, showcases the performer’s dexterity and creativity in interpreting a set of selected works. As a study, it adopts the practice-based research method cum historical and descriptive research designs in discussing the performance of a select Nigerian art and popular musical works on the soprano, alto and tenor saxophones. It is consciously crafted to provide useful data to the field of music performance. Consequently, the study proposes researched-performance as a model for engaging in live music performance.

2018-09-01T00:00:00Z Davou, Samuel Yohanna http://repository.unn.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9161 2021-07-19T10:28:50Z 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z

Blood on Our Hands (An Afro-Musicals) Davou, Samuel Yohanna Jos, the capital of Plateau State, has witnessed incessant violent crises in the last two decades. The conflicts have essentially centred on issues of politics, religion and tussle over claims of land ownership and right of the indigenes namely, Berom, Afizere and Anaguta versus their counterpart, the Hausa/Fulani settlers. Despite the use of many different conflict resolution and peace mediation approaches by the government and other stakeholders, the Jos crises continue to persist. Perhaps, it means that the various conflict mediations and peace building efforts/initiatives may not be effective as expected. This necessitates the exploration of alternative conflict resolution mechanisms. Music is credited to be an effective medium of cultural identity, creative expression and economic/political mobilization and empowerment as it is believed to have potential or real power to mediate conflict situations and engender peace. Thus, the musicals, “Blood on our Hands” is a composition that aims to mediate, mitigate, and possibly heal the wounds inflicted by the protracted and endemic communal crisis in Jos and environs. It uses materials that were obtained from both historical and current sources which reflect the painful realities of the crisis situation from broad and inclusive perspectives of the main actors. It tells the story in a compelling and delightful way using musicals that stimulate, engage and feed the attention of the audience aesthetically. This work, practically achieved from script to stage and finally to screen via a digital medium such as the studio.

2019-02-01T00:00:00Z Davou, Bali Iliya http://repository.unn.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9160 2021-07-19T10:26:03Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nseseng (Wisdom) Davou, Bali Iliya Music composers have taken the task upon themselves to create sonic materials that are so appealing and irresistible to the human ears. From studies in Western music scholarship, which labels the different music types as Classical/Art, Folk, Popular, and World Music, all these genres involve different processes of conception, organization, production, presentation and even appreciation. Art Music, symphonies in particular are fashioned within the paradigms of Classical/Art, Folk and World Music depending on what the composer wants to achieve. It is the responsibility of the music maker to create masterpieces that will appeal to his listeners’ base on their musical needs. This composition is a symphony work titled Nseseng (meaning wisdom). Its an original composition and it consist of three movements. Each movement is presumably woven around a melodic phrase which is resounded in all the movements. Some elements of the classical music (articulation, phrasing, rhythmic regularity, ornaments, tonal variations and diatonic harmony) are deployed. After the composition, the work is sequenced digitally in a studio and produced on an audio CD.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Okeoma, Ogechi Augusta http://repository.unn.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9128 2021-07-16T08:51:45Z 2006-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Effects of Western Instruments on African Christian Worship: A Case Study of Wesley Methodist Cathedral, Enugu Okeoma, Ogechi Augusta The purpose of this project is to examine the effects of Western instruments on the use of African traditional instruments in the worship of God with special reference to Methodist Church Nigeria, Wesley Cathedral Enugu. The project considered the different kinds of Western and African traditional musical instruments in use during worship. It further examined the role of Western musical instruments in worship and the effects on the use of traditional musical instruments. What impact have the musical instruments made on worship? Could both (the western and the African traditional instruments) be allowed in worship? If ‘yes’, how? If ‘no’, why not? The Project endeavoured to answer the above questions within the scope of the research. The effects of Western Instruments in African Christian Worship: A case study of Wesley (Methodist) Cathedral Enugu.

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