Reminiscence Of Manhyia Tete Adowa An Original Composition In Contemporary Idiom

ABSTRACT The research work took place both in Kumasi and Yamfo in the Ashanti and BrongAhafo Regions of Ghana respectively. It consists ofstudying the AdolVa musical type of the Akan and blends the musical elements drawn from it with scholarly compositional techniques as a way of contributing to African art music The work looks at the repertoire of AdolVa, and critically examines its compositional techniques and utilizes the resources to compose new music. This new music preserves the traditional character of adowa albeit the resources ofthe twentieth century music. In this work, traditional …