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The Yaa Amponsah Effect: an Analytical Study of a Popular Ghanaian Guitar Riff

Sarbah, Jehoshaphat Philip (University of Cape Coast, 2021-12)

ABSTRACT The Yaa Amponsah guitar riff has been described as the lingua franca indigenous Ghanaian guitar play (Collins, 2006). Researches like (Adum-Attah, 1997; Collins, 1989, 2006, 2018) provide a brief history of ...
Exploring Philosophical Underpinnings of Ghanaian Dance Education and Their Implication for Teaching

Numekevor, Margaret Delali (University of Cape Coast, 2021-04)

There is global importance of dance education. Dance contributes to the overall development of a person (Gilbert, 2018; Pickard & Risner, 2016). Amans (2017) maintains that dance helps to communicate a person’s values, ...
The Fruits of Apatampa

Twumasi, Ethelbert (University of Cape Coast, 2013-07)

In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) ...
“Kyekyekule” sonata

Addaquay, Alfred Patrick (University of Cape Coast, 2014-08)

So far as the musical interculturalism in African art music is concerned today, this study focuses on how an artist acquainted with both traditional music and western contemporary practices can create a novel piano piece ...
The friuts of Apatampa

Twamasi, Ethelbert (University of Cape Coast, 2013-07)

In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) in ...
A study of the aesthetic responses of undergraduate students to music

Blankson, George (University of Cape Coast, 2015-07)

To yield the educational value of music education in schools, most music educators align music education with aesthetic education. Accordingly, the development of the aesthetic responsiveness and sensitivities of students ...
‘Asamanasaw’: A twenty-first-century African classicism on the dance of the dead

Dawson, Nana Amowee (University of Cape Coast, 2015-07)

This thesis used the notion of life after death in the African traditional religion to create a picturesque or an imaginary ‘African classicism’ about the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo) coming out of their graves to dance. ...
Analyses of selected works of Kenn Kafui

Achire, Emmanuel Tachie (University of Cape Coast, 2014-12)

Art music composers from Ghana have been working seriously since the colonial days to develop the genre till today. As every composer has his own style of writing art music, Kenn Kafui, who is the subject of this study has ...
A study of basic school band pupils’ instrument choices: a case study of schools in the Accra metropolis, Ghana.

Dordzro, John-doe (university of cape coast, 2012-07)

The purpose of this study was to investigate reported influences on Ghanaian Basic School band pupil’s instrument choices, to gain an understanding of reasons expressed by students for preferring certain instruments and ...
Attracting administrative support for music education in senior secondary schools in Cape Coast (Ghana): The role of the music teacher

Koomson, Peter Light (University of Cape Coast, 2002-12)

School administrations are often confronted with the problem of cutting back financial assistance of some academic departments of their institutions due to consistent budgetary constraints. Often; the tendency has been to ...
Reminiscience of Manhyia Tete Adowa an original composition in contemporary idiom based on adowa music of the Akans of Ghana

Arthur, Kras Kofi (University of Cape Coast, 2008)

The research work took place both in Kumasi and Yamfo in the Ashanti and Brongegions of Ghana respectively. It consists of studying the Adowa musical type Akan and blends the musical elements drawn from it with scholarly ...

The Yaa Amponsah Effect: an Analytical Study of a Popular Ghanaian Guitar Riff

Sarbah, Jehoshaphat Philip (University of Cape Coast, 2021-12)

ABSTRACT The Yaa Amponsah guitar riff has been described as the lingua franca indigenous Ghanaian guitar play (Collins, 2006). Researches like (Adum-Attah, 1997; Collins, 1989, 2006, 2018) provide a brief history of ...
Exploring Philosophical Underpinnings of Ghanaian Dance Education and Their Implication for Teaching

Numekevor, Margaret Delali (University of Cape Coast, 2021-04)

There is global importance of dance education. Dance contributes to the overall development of a person (Gilbert, 2018; Pickard & Risner, 2016). Amans (2017) maintains that dance helps to communicate a person’s values, ...
The Fruits of Apatampa

Twumasi, Ethelbert (University of Cape Coast, 2013-07)

In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) ...
“Kyekyekule” sonata

Addaquay, Alfred Patrick (University of Cape Coast, 2014-08)

So far as the musical interculturalism in African art music is concerned today, this study focuses on how an artist acquainted with both traditional music and western contemporary practices can create a novel piano piece ...
The friuts of Apatampa

Twamasi, Ethelbert (University of Cape Coast, 2013-07)

In trying to expand the modern post-tonal music practices and techniques, using traditional idioms, this work is focused on Apatampa dance music (a recreational dance of the Fante people in the Central Region of Ghana) in ...
A study of the aesthetic responses of undergraduate students to music

Blankson, George (University of Cape Coast, 2015-07)

To yield the educational value of music education in schools, most music educators align music education with aesthetic education. Accordingly, the development of the aesthetic responsiveness and sensitivities of students ...
‘Asamanasaw’: A twenty-first-century African classicism on the dance of the dead

Dawson, Nana Amowee (University of Cape Coast, 2015-07)

This thesis used the notion of life after death in the African traditional religion to create a picturesque or an imaginary ‘African classicism’ about the ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo) coming out of their graves to dance. ...
Analyses of selected works of Kenn Kafui

Achire, Emmanuel Tachie (University of Cape Coast, 2014-12)

Art music composers from Ghana have been working seriously since the colonial days to develop the genre till today. As every composer has his own style of writing art music, Kenn Kafui, who is the subject of this study has ...
A study of basic school band pupils’ instrument choices: a case study of schools in the Accra metropolis, Ghana.

Dordzro, John-doe (university of cape coast, 2012-07)

The purpose of this study was to investigate reported influences on Ghanaian Basic School band pupil’s instrument choices, to gain an understanding of reasons expressed by students for preferring certain instruments and ...
Attracting administrative support for music education in senior secondary schools in Cape Coast (Ghana): The role of the music teacher

Koomson, Peter Light (University of Cape Coast, 2002-12)

School administrations are often confronted with the problem of cutting back financial assistance of some academic departments of their institutions due to consistent budgetary constraints. Often; the tendency has been to ...
Reminiscience of Manhyia Tete Adowa an original composition in contemporary idiom based on adowa music of the Akans of Ghana

Arthur, Kras Kofi (University of Cape Coast, 2008)

The research work took place both in Kumasi and Yamfo in the Ashanti and Brongegions of Ghana respectively. It consists of studying the Adowa musical type Akan and blends the musical elements drawn from it with scholarly ...

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