dc.contributor.author |
Ghunney, E.A |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-02-20T15:15:12Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-02-20T15:15:12Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2015 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/2160 |
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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 the Award of Master of Philosophy (Musical
Composition) Degree
MAY, 2015 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The study is a by-product of an acculturation of music that uses the creative dynamism
mode, and deliberately searches the musical elements of the Aboakyer festival of the
Effutu of Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana. It integrates these elements with the
Western compositional techniques to create a relatively unique hybrid atonal
programmed music of the African. The research adopted the 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. Additionally, the research pivots on the culture information (CI) theory in which creativity is a product of the interplay of environment
and knowledge. A field study design was used for the data collection and twentieth
century compositional techniques applied to create a hybrid novelty called Gyamkaba.
The novelty was analyzed and a definitive analysis which leads the listener and the reader
through the piece was presented. The study resolved the controversial provenance date of
Effutu settlement as 1515 and not 1530 which was confirmed by the branding of the 2015
Aboakyer Festival as its 500th celebration. The study also revealed that the name of the
animal in the hunt should have been a bushbuck and not a deer. Finally, it also uncovered
the modal scales used by the Effutu Asafo companies as ionian, dorian and phrygian. It is
hoped that this original work will provide a platform for future art composers to research
into the other ethnicities in Ghana and use their elements to recreate new hybrid musical
forms to augment the 21st century classical repertoire. |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
University of Education,Winneba |
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dc.subject |
Gyamkaba |
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dc.subject |
Asafo songs |
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dc.subject |
Aboakyer festival |
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dc.subject |
Winneba |
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dc.title |
Gyamkaba an original composition derived from asafo songs of aboakyer festival of Winneba |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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