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    • The substance of African Divine Church choral music 

      Abigael Nancy Masasabi (Cape Town: African Minds, 2006)
      Choral music in Africa could be classified asWestern“art”, African“art”or indigenous African choral music, which includes traditional“classical”, ethnic, religious and folk styles. All over Africa, indigenous choral ...

    • Text-melody relationships: Translation of European Hymns into Dho-Luo 

      Rose A Omolo-Ongati (Council for Research in Music Education, School of Music, University of Illinois, 2005)
      This study addressed the problem of translation of European hymns into Dho-luo, with specific reference to text-melody relationships It outlines the process of translating music and compositional methods and techniques ...

    • Verbal-Text as A Process of Compositional and Improvisational Elaboration in Bukusu Litungu Music 

      Abigael Nancy Masasabi (University of south africa, 2011)
      The Bukusu community is predominantly found in Bungoma district of Western Kenya. The Litungu is a word referring to a lyre among the Bukusu community. Music accompanied by this instrument is what is referred to as Litungu ...