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Compositional utilisation of indigenous music features in selected contemporary Nigerian art music
Abstract
The pieces studied for this research are works by some contemporary Nigerian composers who are creatively consistent in their various interests and specialisation areas of nationalistic composition. The selected Nigerian art music works were dissected using a qualitative approach through analysis to divulge the indigenous music materials, elements, and concepts utilised by the composers. Although pioneer Nigerian art music composers were stylistically and idiomatically more Western, through cultural reawakening, creative reorientation, and the struggle for national identity, the contemporary composers became more engaged in experimenting, forging, and nurturing art music indigenisation through the adoption of intercultural creative approach.
