Evaristo Muyinda

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Evaristo Muyinda (born June 2, 1916 in Nabbale, Kyaggwe , Buganda , † October 11, 1993 ) was a Ugandan musician; he directed the court music of the Baganda and handed down their complex music. In addition to his competence as a musical interpreter, Muyinda was a promoter of traditional Ugandan music culture.

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Muyinda, whose father died young, learned at the age of nine, the game on the mallet Amadinda and Akadinda . In 1939, when Mutesa II became Kabaka of Buganda, he appointed Muyinda court musician in the Akadinda ensemble of his court. In 1948 Klaus Wachsmann , then curator at the newly founded Uganda Museum , gave him a position as a musical demonstrator. Muyinda has taught instrumental music in schools and gave musical demonstrations at Makerere University College in Kampala . Between 1957 and 1959 he was in charge of founding a multi-ethnic Akadinda ensemble in what was thenSalama Rural Training Center of the Blind responsible.

The development of a simple number notation for stick playing compositions goes back to Muyinda; this notation system is often used in a more developed form in ethnomusicological studies. Over the years, after instruction from the last official director of the court music Temusewo Mukasa and other musicians, Muyinda became a multi-instrumentalist, who with his performances on the harp Ennanga , the lyre entongoli , the reed violin Endingidi , the notch flute enderre and drums like the nankasa covered a wide range of Baganda music. 1952 were the first recordings by Hugh Tracey ; followed shellac records for local label. As a research assistant to Klaus Wachsmann and as an instrumental teacher to Joseph Kyagambiddwa , Gerhard Kubik and other ethnomusicologists, Muyinda exerted a considerable influence on the academic research and understanding of traditional music in East Africa.

Muyinda is also considered to be the inventor of the Kiganda Orchestra, an ensemble format in which instruments from different Kiganda musical traditions are brought together, resulting in a mixture of timbres that is unusual in traditional music. The Kiganda Orchestra has become an integral part of the Ugandan national ensemble The Heartbeat of Africa , to whose profile Muyinda also made a major contribution. With this formation and with several of his own ensembles, he took part in concert tours to many African countries and overseas. With these groups he recorded albums under his own name (he is also documented on numerous musicological recordings).

Discography

  • Traditional Music of the Baganda as formerly played at the court of the Kabaka. (Pan 2003, rec. 1991)
  • The King's Musicians: Royalist Music of Buganda. (Topic Records, 2003)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deviating year of birth 1914 for Gerhard Kubik Theory of African Music. Vol. 1. Chicago 1994, p. 325
  2. ↑ republished in 1998 on the album Royal Court Music from Uganda: Uganda 1950 & 1952 on Sharp Wood Records
  3. ↑ See G. Kubik On Understanding African Music . 2nd edition, Lit, Münster 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Muyinda, Evaristo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ugandan musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Nabbale, Kyaggwe , Buganda
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1993