EZEGBE’S PHILOSOPHY ON ANALYSIS OF AFRICAN VOCAL MUSIC COMPOSITION, USING ONWUEKWE’S JEHOVAH B Ụ ONYE NA - AZ Ụ M D Ị KA AT Ụ R Ụ AS MUSICAL EXAMPLE

Agatha Ijeoma Onwuekwe

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The philosophical nature of musical arts in Africa is evidenced in the musical resources that abound in every nook and cranny of the continent. Each country, town or village has a lot to offer in terms of melodic, rhythmic and harmonic structures, which are guided by the tonal inflection of the words which is a striking characteristic of African melodies. Ezegbe (1983) developed a model for analysis of African melodies. He gave eight criteria under which African melodies can be analyzed. These include: The scale mode, the tonal range, the melody, the rhythm, the texture, the frequency of tone occurrence, melodic contour typology and percentage density. Onwuekwe‟s (2007) Jehovah b ụ Onye na - az ụ m D ị ka At ụ r ụ has been analyzed based on the above criteria.

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