Teaching Music Composition in Nigerian Tertiary Music Education

Abstract

Music composition is defined simply as the creative assembling ofsounds in certain determined order for social and cultural purposes.It is a prominent component of music education in Nigerianinstitutions. While aspects of creative musical activities are conducted at the lower tiers of learning resulting from the new Cultural and Creative Arts Curriculum, formal teaching of the subject component is prominent only at the tertiary level where the curricula for institutions provide for professional specialization on it. This unit focuses on the current practice, methods, relevance and new directions arising from the subject component, using selected institutions in southern Nigeria.