| Abstract: | This is a book on Nigerian traditional music. It includes chapters on the nature of African music; defining African instrumental music; Nigerian musical instruments and their functions; the talking drums of Nigeria; Nigerian drum and gong rhythms; the African orchestra; anthropology of African music; random music in Nigeria; notation, terminology and legends; traditional African music elements in twentieth-century Western music; musicological approach to Nigerian oral poetry; theories on African music; Nigerian music in societal change; African music as a culture indicator; and the cultural forms of Nigerian music. |
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