NIGERIAN ART COMPOSERS

Who is referred to as the 'father of Nigerian church music'?

• Fela Sowande
• Bode Omojola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Tunde Akinola

Which Nigerian composer wrote the first musicological treatise on African music by a trained indigenous musician?

• Bode Omojola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Tunde Akinola
• Fela Sowande

Who was the first African to earn the prestigious Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) diploma?

• Fela Sowande
• Bode Omojola
• Tunde Akinola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips

Which Nigerian composer is known for introducing concert music to Nigerian musical culture?

• Fela Sowande
• Tunde Akinola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Bode Omojola

Which composer's works include hymns, antiphonal chants, and choral anthems in Yoruba language?

• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Tunde Akinola
• Bode Omojola
• Fela Sowande

Who composed the African Suite for String Orchestra and Folk Symphony for Orchestra?

• Bode Omojola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Fela Sowande
• Tunde Akinola

Which composer wrote works such as Jesu Olugbala, Go Down Moses, and Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho?

• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Fela Sowande
• Tunde Akinola
• Bode Omojola

Who spent the last twenty years of his life as an African musicologist teaching in the United States?

• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Tunde Akinola
• Fela Sowande
• Bode Omojola

Which composer's era introduced concert music to the Nigerian musical culture?

• Bode Omojola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Tunde Akinola
• Fela Sowande

Who wrote the book 'Yoruba Music,' a documentation of field research on Yoruba traditional music?

• Tunde Akinola
• Thomas Ekundayo Phillips
• Bode Omojola
• Fela Sowande