SOME ISSUES IN ART MUSIC COMPOSITION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Musical Composition—spontaneous or systematically calculated—remains the basis for analyzing, theorizing and conceptualizing the African Musical Arts within a given cultural space. Tutelage, orientation, economy and culture inevitably influence the craft of composers who create music. Apart from the composer's personality, intuition and training, he is obligated to meet up with consumer's taste, his prestige as a composer and community standards as part of influences in his compositional thoughts. This paper seeks to point out various issues in art musical composition in Nigeria in post-colonial Nigeria. The role of the academic composer and his/her music surveyed. Survey method was used to carry out this research.