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 areconducted at the lower tiers of learning resulting from the newCultural and Creative Arts Curriculum, formal teaching of the subjectcomponent is prominent only at the tertiary level where the curriculafor institutions provide for professional specialization on it. Thisunit focuses on the current practice, methods, relevance and newdirections arising from the subject component, using selectedinstitutions in southern Nigeria.