Akin Euba

Akin Euba
Haihuwa	Olatunji Akin Euba 28 April 1935 Lagos, Nigeria
Mutuwa	14 Afrilu 2020(2020-04-14) (shekaru 84)
Aiki	Composer, musicologist, and pianist

Olatunji Akin Euba Listenⓘ (28 ga Afrilu, 1935 – 14 ga Afrilu, 2020) ya kasance mawaƙin kiɗa, masanin ilimin kiɗa (musicologist), kuma ɗan wasan piyano daga Najeriya.

Ayyuka

An haife shi a ranar 28 ga Afrilu 1935 a Legas, Najeriya, Akin Euba ya yi karatun abun da ke ciki tare da Arnold Cooke a Kwalejin Kiɗa ta Triniti, London, yana samun difloma na ɗan'uwan Kwalejin Trinity London (Composition) da kuma ɗan'uwan Trinity College London (Piano). An ba shi kyautar Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship a shekarar 1962. Ya sami digiri na BA da MA daga Jami'ar California, Los Angeles, inda ya yi karatu tare da Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, da Roy Travis. Ya sami Ph.D. a cikin ethnomusicology daga Jami'ar Ghana, Legon (1974). Yayinda yake a Legon, Farfesa Nketia ne ke kula da aikin digirin Euba, kuma rubutun sa mai taken "Dundun Music of the Yoruba".

Euba farfesa ne kuma darektan Cibiyar Nazarin Al'adu a Jami'ar Legas, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin babban jami'in bincike a Jami'an Ife (yanzu Jami'ar Obafemi Awolowo) a Najeriya. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban kiɗa a Kamfanin Watsa Labarai na Najeriya na tsawon shekaru biyar. Ya kasance masanin bincike kuma mai zane-zane a gidan IWALEWA, cibiyar nazarin Afirka ta Jami'ar Bayreuth a Jamus tsakanin 1986 da 1992. Ya kasance Farfesa Andrew Mellon na Kiɗa a Jami'ar Pittsburgh tsakanin 1993 da 2011 kuma har zuwa mutuwarsa, ya kasance Farfesa na Andrew W. Mellon, Emeritus a cikin kiɗa; wanda ya kafa kuma darektan Cibiyar Harkokin Kiɗa ta Al'adu, London (wanda aka kafa a 1989), kuma darektar Emeritus na Cibiyar Harshen Kiɗa a Kwalejin Churchill, Jami'ar Cambridge.

Abubuwan da Euba ke sha'awar ilimi sun haɗa da ilimin kiɗa da ilimin kabilanci na al'adu na zamani. Ya shirya tarurruka na yau da kullun kan kiɗa a Afirka da Diaspora a Kwalejin Churchill, Cambridge da kuma Cibiyar Kula da Kiɗa ta Tsakiya a Beijing. Wadannan abubuwan da suka faru sun hada da sanannun mawaƙa da malamai kamar J. H. Kwabena Nketia da Halim El-Dabh . Tare da Elekoto Ensemble, ya haɗu da mawaƙa daga Najeriya, China, Indiya, Jamus, Malta, da Amurka.

Abubuwan da ya kirkiro sun haɗa da haɗin kayan gargajiya na Afirka (sau da yawa daga kabilinsa, Mutanen Yoruba) da Kiɗa na gargajiya na zamani. Mafi girman abin da ya fi burge shi ne opera Chaka: An Opera in Two Chants (1970), wanda ya haɗu da muryar Afirka ta Yamma da kuma atenteben tare da Fasahar sauti goma sha biyu.

Euba ya mutu a ranar 14 ga Afrilu 2020, makonni biyu kafin ranar haihuwarsa ta 85.

Ayyuka

• Waƙoƙin gargajiya na Yoruba guda shida, an shirya su don murya da piano
• 1956 - Gabatarwa da Allegro, ƙungiyar mawaƙa 
• 1963 - Fim biyar don Ƙaho na Turanci da Piano don Derek Bell 
• 1964 - Hotuna huɗu daga Oyo Calabashes 
• 1964 - Ra'ayoyi Daga Kayan Akwete, piano 
• 1967 - Safiya, Dare, da Dare, mawaƙa, masu rawa, da kayan aikin Najeriya 
• 1967 - Olurounbi (ko Olurombi), Nazarin Symphonic don Orchestra 
• 1970 (rev. 1999) - Chaka, Opera 
• 1970 - Ice Cubes, ƙungiyar mawaƙa 
• 1970 - Abubuwan da suka faru daga Rayuwar Al'ada, piano 
• 1975 - Alatangana, ballet don mawaƙa, masu rawa, da kayan aikin Najeriya 
• 1979 - Black Bethlehem, soloists, chorus, Nigerian drums, da jazz ensemble 
• 1987 - Wakar Duru: Nazarin Pianism na Afirka 1-3, piano 
• 2003 - A ƙasa da Rusumo Falls, murya, mai rawa, kayagum, sarewa, da piano (rubutu: Olusola Oyeleye)  
• 2011 - "an haife su a duniya 

Bayanan da aka yi

• 1989 - Piano Music of Akin Euba, wanda Peter Schmalfuss ya yi (ya haɗa da Scenes from Traditional Life da Wakar Duru: Studies in African Pianism)  
• 1999 - Chaka: Opera in Two Chants, daga waka mai ban mamaki ta Léopold Sédar Senghor . Point Richmond, California, Amurka: Cibiyar Binciken Kiɗa MRI-001CD. 
• 2005 - Zuwa ga Pianism na Afirka: Anthology of Keyboard Music Daga Afirka da Diaspora . Fashewa. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Amurka: A Bridge Across: Intercultural Composition, Performance, Musicology, Sashen Kiɗa, Jami'ar Pittsburgh, ABA 001 CD. 
• 2005 - Zuwa ga Pianism na Afirka: Anthology of Keyboard Music Daga Afirka da Diaspora . Fashewa. 2. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Amurka: A Bridge Across: Intercultural Composition, Performance, Musicology, Sashen Kiɗa, Jami'ar Pittsburgh, ABA 002 CD. 

Rubuce-rubuce

• [Inda Aka Ɗauko Hoto da ke shafi na 7] "Music Adapts to a Changed World: A Leader Composer Looks at How Africa's Musical Traditions Have Extended to Suit Contemporary Society. " Africa Report, Nuwamba 1970, pp. 24-27. 
• [Inda Aka Ɗauko Hoto da ke shafi na 9] "Yoruba Music in the Church: The Development of a Neo-African Art Among the Yoruba of Nigeria. " A cikin African Musicology: Current Trends: A Festschrift Presented to J. H. Kwabena Nketia, ed. J. C. DjeDje da W. G. Carter (Atlanta, Georgia), shafuffuka na 45-63.