Background
Sadoh, Godwin Simeon was born on March 28, 1965 in Lagos, Nigeria. Arrived in United States, 1994. Son of Anthony Sadoh and Taiwo Akinsanya.
(Nigeria has been blessed with a few well-trained organist...)
Nigeria has been blessed with a few well-trained organist-composers since the arrival of Christianity in the most populous African country around the 1840s. The institutions established by European missionaries and the colonial administration had a great impact on the emergence of the 'Nigerian organ school' The musicians had their formative periods at the mission schools, church choirs, and under organ playing apprenticeships. This book focuses on selected organ works by the most celebrated African art musician, Fela Sowande, a Nigerian organist-composer. Fela Sowande is the first African to popularize organ works by natives of Africa in Europe and the United States. He was one of the pioneer composers to incorporate indigenous African elements such as folksongs, rhythms and other types of traditional source materials in solo works for organ. He is considered the most prolific Nigerian composer for solo organ in Nigeria. The discussion of Sowande's music enunciates the relationship between traditional and contemporary musical processes in postcolonial Nigeria. A cultural and/or ethnomusicological analysis of Sowande's selected pieces for organ solo involves an examination of specific indigenous source materials such as rhythmic organization, melodic constructs/thematic materials (music communication), interrelations of music and dance, and elements of musical conception.
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(This book presents the life and music of Joshua Uzoigwe, ...)
This book presents the life and music of Joshua Uzoigwe, a Nigerian composer-ethnomusicologist. The book examines the socio-cultural factors that most influenced Uzoigwe's creative thought, inspiration, and imagination. Uzoigwe's life and music explicate the imprint of two cultural worlds, Western and African--Igbo/Yor...uba. His music is a vivid representation of a modern intercultural music. A discussion of the stylistic features in Uzoigwe's music reveals the relationship between traditional and contemporary musical processes in modern African art music through the examination of rhythmic, tonal and harmonic organization, thematic processes, form, instrumentation, titles of works, and the interrelations of music and dance. The influence of Uzoigwe's extensive research on ukom music is evident in his compositions, particularly the Talking Drums, Ritual Procession, and Oja.
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(The biography and music of Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips ...)
The biography and music of Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips are synonymous with the history of Nigerian church music. His compositions chronicle the emergence of Nigerian church music from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Phillips's works demonstrate the experimental stages of musical synthesis that began in the church, and in particular, elucidate the various levels of musical development and growth in Nigeria. By writing diverse musical genres, Phillips presents an array of compositional choices that are available to indigenous sacred music composers-liturgical, hymnological, choral, and instrumental pieces. Ekundayo Phillips's compositions divulge the utilization of traditional source materials in contemporary compositions. In other words, Phillips's Yoruba compositions are paradigms for employing traditional creative principles embedded in the Nigerian culture, and recombining them with modern techniques to create intercultural music. Phillips understood the problem of ethnic conflict in Nigeria; therefore, in some of his songs he calls for unity, peace, love, and national cohesion. Phillips's compositions certainly fall within the category of intercultural musicology. His compositions represent the first attempts by native Nigerian composers in the experimental synthesis of diverse musical idioms in creating a truly hybrid composition. Indeed, credit is given to Phillips's pioneer research on the word-music relationship, the utilization of indigenous pitch collections, as found in the traditional music, contrapuntal devices in choral music, indigenous polyphonic techniques, and text setting; all documented in his well-written book, Yoruba Music: Fusion of Speech and Music-a monumental gem and theory of Nigerian music.
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Sadoh, Godwin Simeon was born on March 28, 1965 in Lagos, Nigeria. Arrived in United States, 1994. Son of Anthony Sadoh and Taiwo Akinsanya.
Bachelor in Piano Performance and Composition, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 1988. Master of Arts in Ethnomusicology, University Pittsburgh, 1998. Master of Music in Organ Performance, University Nebraska, 2000.
Doctor of Music in Organ Performance and Composition, Louisiana State University, 2004.
Lecturer department music Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 1988—1994. Teaching assistant University Pittsburgh, 1994—1996. Part-time faculty School Music University Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1998—2000.
Music faculty Baton Rouge College, 2003—2006. Assistant professor music Le Moyne College-Owen College, Memphis, 2005—2007, director Sacred Music Program, 2006—2007, director concert choir, 2006—2007. Professor music Talladega College, Alabama, since 2007.
Organist, choir director Eko Boys High School, Lagos, Nigeria, 1980—1982, St. Stephen's Episcopalian Church, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, 1996—1998. Associate director music ministries First United Methodist Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1999—2000. Founder and director Ile-Ife Choral Society, Nigeria, 1990—1994.
Assistant organist Cathedral Church Christ, Lagos, Nigeria, 1980—1990.
(Nigeria has been blessed with a few well-trained organist...)
(The biography and music of Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips ...)
(This book presents the life and music of Joshua Uzoigwe, ...)
Organist, choirmaster Eko Boys High School, Lagos, 1980—1982. Preacher St. Stephen's Episcopalian Church, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, 1996—1998, Christ Lutheran Church, Lincoln, 1999—2000. Visiting preacher Redeeming The Time Ministries International, Baton Rouge.
Member of American Society of Composers (See Honor's awards 2004, Plus award 2005, 2006), Musicological Society Nigeria, Society Ethnomusicology, American Guild Organists (scholarship 1998—2000), Organ History Society, The Hymn Society, National Association Composers, United States of America, The College Music Society, Pi Kappa Lambda.