dc.contributor.author |
Nantwi, E.K |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-02-20T14:37:47Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-02-20T14:37:47Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/2155 |
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dc.description |
A Thesis in the Department of Music Education, School of Creative Arts, submitted
to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Education, Winneba in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for award of the Master of Philosophy
(Music Composition) degree
JULY, 2014 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The study espoused the idea of music acculturation in the mode of creative dynamism,
consciously searching the elements of the Samanpiid festival of the Kusasi people of the
Upper East Region and amalgamating it with the Western compositional techniques to
create a relatively atonal programmed music of the African and more especially the
Kusasi tradition. The study was conducted among the Kusasi people of Bawku in the
Upper East Region of Ghana. It adopted aesthetic functionalism theory on social
functions wherein meaning of music is derived from the role music plays in the lives of
those who make it. Moreover, the research pivots on the Culture-Information (CI) theory
in which creativity is a product of the interplay of culture (environment) and information
(knowledge). The field study design was used for the data collection and twentieth
century compositional techniques were used to create a hybrid novelty called
Agbazankpivvicco. The novelty was analysed and a definitive analysis which will lead the
listener and the reader through the piece was written. In the nut-shell, the researcher
identified, documented, extended and recreated some of the musical forms of the Kusasi
people within the Samanpiid festival to come out with this original work, providing a
platform for the possibility of future research into other musical forms of the Kusasi
people. |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
University of Education,Winneba |
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dc.subject |
Samanpiid festival |
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dc.subject |
Agbazankpivvicco |
en_US |
dc.title |
Agbazankpivvicco a contemporary programme music based on the music of the samanpiid festival of the Kusasi people |
en_US |
dc.type |
Thesis |
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