Nabokov, Nicolas [Nikolay]
Nayo, Nicholas Zinzendorf
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- Nazareth [Nazaré], Ernesto (Júlio de)
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Nayo, Nicholas Zinzendorf(b Baika, 14 April 1922; d Baika, 15 March 1993). Ghanaian composer. Following tuition on the harmonium from his father, he developed his musical skills and directed fife bands and a choir at the Presbyterian Teacher Training College at Akwapim-Akropong. Nayo entered the music school of Achimota College in 1949, studying with Amu, and became a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music in 1953. After some years as a school music teacher, he studied with Nketia at the University of Ghana, Legon, gaining the Diploma in African Music (1964), then attended Boston University (MMus 1970). As the first director of the National Academy of Music, Winneba (1973–5), Nayo encouraged his students to explore 20th-century harmonic vocabularies; Mawu xo Mia ’Kpedada (1973) was a demonstration piece for this purpose. He was a lecturer at the University of Ghana (1975–9) and a senior lecturer (1979–84) then professor (1986) at the University of Lagos. Nayo’s early works show the influence of Amu in their imitative techniques, simple harmony, duple time signatures and reliance on indigenous musical themes. The completion of a thesis on the Anlo-Ewe composer Vinoko Akpalu encouraged Nayo to intensify southern Ewe musical elements in such works as the Volta Symphony (1988). Nayo’s middle period is marked by atonal tendencies, unresolved 7th chords, the adoption of 6/8 time signatures and the use of extended forms and the orchestral medium. On his appointment as director of the Ghana National SO (1987–93), the government’s stated aim of cultural self-reliance prompted a major shift in his compositional techniques. Fontomfrom Prelude (1989) and Mandela Overture (1991) are examples of his conscious reliance on indigenous musical instruments, themes and performance practices. His writings include educational books on music. WORKS(selective list)
DANIEL AVORGBEDOR Nazareth [Nazaré], Ernesto (Júlio de)(b Rio de Janeiro, 20 March 1863; d Rio de Janeiro, 4 Feb 1934). Brazilian composer and pianist. He studied the piano with his mother, with Eduardo Madeira and with Lucien Lambert, who gave him an intimate knowledge of Chopin’s music, which became influential on his own work. By 1877, when the polka Você bem sabe was published by Artur Napoleão, he had begun to compose in the current popular dance genres, and as a pianist he worked exclusively in light music. From 1919 he was employed by the publishing house of Carlos Gomes (later Carlos Wehrs), performing scores for clients, and he played daily in the Odeon cinema (1920–24), where Villa-Lobos had worked a few years earlier as a cellist, and for which he wrote the famous tango Odeon. Nazareth won wide popularity in the 1920s and toured the states of São Paulo and Rio Grande in 1921 and 1932. The tangos established him as the most influential Brazilian popular composer of the 20th century; Villa-Lobos praised him as ‘the true incarnation of the Brazilian soul’. Nazareth was responsible for producing national types of such dances as the polka and the tango, and for creating a model for the maxixe. His waltzes and tangos were sources of inspiration for numerous composers, including Milhaud, Villa-Lobos, L. Fernandez, Mignone and Gnattali. His music enjoyed great success in the late 20th century, and by the 1970s had been recorded and published in Europe and the USA. WORKS(selective list)
BIBLIOGRAPHYB. Itiberê: ‘Ernesto Nazareth na música brasileira’, Boletín latino-americano de música, vi (1946), 309–21 M. de Andrade: Música, doce música (São Paulo, 1963) J.C. Diniz: Nazareth: estudos analíticos (Recife,1963) G. Béhague: Popular Musical Currents in the Art Music of the Early Nationalistic Period in Brazil, c1870–1920 (diss., Tulane U., 1966) G. Béhague: Music in Latin America: an Introduction (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1979) V. Mariz: História da música no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1981, 4/1994) GERARD BÉHAGUE Yüklə 10,2 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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