DEVELOPING PAINTINGS FROM YORUBA MUSIC
DEVELOPING PAINTINGS FROM YORUBA MUSIC
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Date
1998-06
Authors
OLUSEGUN, AJAYI ADEWALE
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ABSTRACT
Developing Paintings From Yoruba Music
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Ajayi Adewale Olusegun
Developing paintings from Yoruba Music is an experimental study in
painting carried out to develop visual concepts as well as to reveal the level of
interelatedness between painting and music.
The Juju Music of Chief Ebenezer Obey was used and his songs which are
considered educative were employed. Yoruba music contain the songs and
instrumentation; and therefore, traditional musical instruments like Talking
Drum, Bata, and Thumb Piano were introduced in the compositions.
A review of literature was carried out to show the contribution of some
artists who have done similar work concerning the relationships between painting
and music.
A collection of data was done through making studies of the selected
musical symbols from music textbooks; and also of musical instruments. A
collection was made of selected Obey's recorded pieces of music on audio
cassettes. Sketches were created from listening to these pieces of music in pencil
and charcoal. These preliminary drawings (i.e the sketches) served as data for
the study.
The study was categorised into four groups.
i. Fussion of symbols and space
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ii. Fussion of symbols, instrument and space
iii. Fussion of II with forms
iv. Fussion of II with forms developed from the lyrics of the selected
son (The Horse the Man and his Son)
The works executed in the course of this research are presented as plates.
At the end of the research, it was concluded that visual messages is Yoruba
Music can be visually interpreted and that oral art could be translated into
pictorial art.
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A PROJECT WRITE-UP SUBMITTED TO POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF
THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF FINE
ARTS (M.F.A.) DEGREE IN PAINTING
Keywords
DEVELOPING, PAINTINGS, YORUBA, MUSIC