Anthology of Music Arrangements and Compositions: A Handbook for Universities, Colleges and Schools [Volume Two]

Description

Anthology of Music Arrangements and Compositions is a documentation of Professor Wanyama’s musical arts creativity over a period of 30 years (1987 – 2017) as a music academician in primary schools, secondary schools and universities. This work – containing 66 creative musical works – is published separately in three volumes – each based on specific themes. Volume One is a collection of 28 compositions (secular and sacred); Volume Two entails 18 arrangements (secular and sacred) and Volume Three documents 20 popular music arrangements, topical songs and patriotic songs. The three volumes – covering a myriad of music making styles, text setting and compositional nuts and bolts – are resourceful to music scholars at universities, colleges and schools in Kenya, Africa and beyond.

Mellitus Nyongesa Wanyama is currently a Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology and Musicology) at Kabarak University, Nakuru, Kenya, where he has served as the Founding Dean, School of Music and Performing Arts, since August 2015. During the 2019 Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE) conference in Victoria, Seychelles, he was elected the President of PASMAE. Prior to moving to Kabarak University, he taught, for over 10 years, Music and Dance at Moi University. He was the Founder of Music Studies at Moi University. He was also the Chairman of the Panel that drafted Music courses for the School of Music and Performing Arts at Kabarak University. He is a music educator, composer, arranger, choral trainer, choreographer and adjudicator of music and dance. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Utafiti Foundation Publishers – a Research and Documentation Centre in Eldoret, Kenya – where he is the Chief Editor (www.utafitifoundation.com). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of African Musicology Online (https://africanmusicology.online/). He holds a Certificate in Education (Mosoriot Teachers College); a Diploma in Education [First Class] (Kisii College); BA and MPhil. (Moi University); and Doctor of Music (DMus) in Ethnomusicology (University of Pretoria, South Africa).