Pictures of ayo bankole biography

Ayo Bankole’s musical style takes a line from the cautious approach of Fela Sowande although later in his career he also, like Euba, saw the need to lessen the stylistic bond between his works and europeisk classical music. Like Sowande, he maintained close links with europeisk conventional practice in the use of forms and formal procedures such as the sonata, the fugue and the cantata.

Despite the relationship between his works and those of Sowande, Bankole’s style is defined by a anställda approach to reinterpreting elements of traditional Yoruba music and their fusion with European idioms. Thus although his harmonic style generally remains within the bounds of tonality, it is frequently characterised by features such as whole-tone scales, modality, the interval of the tritone and much use of chromaticism, often within a tonal language defined through repetition and emphasis rather than orthodox harmonic procedures.

The affinity between these features and the impressionistic and fo

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A tribute to Ayo Bankole (–) on his 80th birthday

The arrival of the Christian faith in Nigeria in the mid-nineteenth century dramatically changed the musical landscape in the West African nation through the exploits of the missionaries from europe and southern United States, as well as the imperial colonial administration from England. The church teachings, curriculum of the uppdrag schools, and the colonial policies exposed the new Nigerian converts to Western classical music repertoire and musical instruments such as the harmonium, piano, and kroppsdel. In this thriving musical culture and environment, Nigerian composers began writing compositions of their own from around Many of their compositions at this time were fashioned after the European baroque and classical styles. However, from the s, Nigerian composers began experimenting with new techniques in their works, such as atonality and twelve-tone rows. The then young composers, fired up bygd the new twentieth-century composit

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Bankole&#; Birthday Concert For The Ethnomusicologist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE spirit of the late great ethnomusicologist Ayo Bankole came alive last week Sunday with a grand concert performance of his numerous, groundbreaking compositions.

The venue was the newly established Ayo Bankole Centre for Arts and Cultural Expression, a destination that is currently enjoying considerable patronage on 32, Yesufu Sanusi Street, Surulere, Lagos.

The object of the concert was to celebrate the prolific composer, organist and pianist who should have been 80 if he was still alive.

Coordinated by his son, Ayo Bankole Jr, who is also a virtuoso pianist, the concert was attended by family members, admirers, well wishers and friends of the late ethnomusicologist &#; among them Igwe (Professor Emeritus) Lazarus Ekwueme who, in paying glowing tributes to the late music legend, went down memory lane to their student days in London in the 60s as well as