Akin Euba

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Akin Euba (born April 28, 1935 in Lagos - † April 14, 2020 ) was a Nigerian composer .

Life

Euba studied music from 1952 to 1957 at Trinity College of Music in London . Then he was head of the music department of Nigerian Broadcasting. From 1965 to 1966 he studied composition and ethnomusicology in Los Angeles . Until 1968 he was lecturer for music at the University of Lagos , then head of the research department at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife .

He composed the opera Chaka , a dance suite for fifteen Nigerian instruments, four pieces for African orchestra, a symphonic study for orchestra about a Yoruba legend, a piece for choir and Nigerian instruments, a wind quintet, a string quartet and piano works.

Fonts

  • Music Adapts to a Changed World: A Leading Composer Looks at How Africa's Musical Traditions Have Expanded to Suit Contemporary Society. Africa Report, November 1970, pp. 24-27
  • Yoruba Music in the Church: The Development of a Neo-African Art Among the Yoruba of Nigeria. In: JC DjeDje and WG Carter (eds.): African Musicology: Current Trends: A Festschrift Presented to JH Kwabena Nketia . Atlanta, Georgia 1989, pp. 45-63
  • Yoruba Drumming: The Dundun Tradition. (Diss.) Bayreuth African Studies, University of Bayreuth, 1990
  • African Traditional Musical Instruments in Neo-African Idioms and Contexts. In: Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje (Ed.): Turn up the Volume. A Celebration of African Music. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles 1999, pp. 68-77

See also

literature

  • Joshua Uzoigwe: Akin Euba: An Introduction to the Life and Music of a Nigerian Composer. Bayreuth African Studies, Bayreuth 1993, ISBN 3-927510-16-5

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personal data
SURNAME Euba, Akin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2020