University of Ilorin 203rd Inaugural Lecture
| dc.contributor.author | Ikibe, Solomon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-02T15:28:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-02T15:28:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-08-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This Inaugural Lecture focuses on the relationship between Music and the Sciences – “Man Uses Science In Communication”. It investigates the very close relationship between Music and the Sciences – Physics, Mathematics, Biology and Health Sciences. Incidentally, as I was preparing this lecture, one of our colleagues’ son who had been admitted and registered to study Physiotherapy willingly opted out to study Music with Physics, Mathematics and Biology at the UNILORIN JUPEB Program. Initially, I wondered what kind of subject combination that was, but on a second thought, I perceived that the boy made a very good choice as I pray that posterity will vindicate and reward him on this wonderful subjects’ combination. He wants to go into Music Technology.Mr. Vice-Chancellor Sir, the first part of this inaugural lecture has to do with an age-long misdemeanour, a minor misdeed indeed, among choristers in Nigeria which has been of great concern to me. This is the issue of sol being wrongly enunciated as saw. The tonic sol-fa notes (d:r:m:f:s:l:t:d’) consisting of seven syllabic consonants (and a repetition of the first note with an apostrophe, to make it an octave higher) were devised by Sarah Ann Glover (1785 – 1867) a native of Norwich, England, in the 18th century but popularized by John Curwen (1816 – 1880) to simplify the sight-singing ability of choristers. The correct enunciation of the tonic sol-fa notes is doh, ray, me, fah, sol (soh), lah, te doh’. The fifth note, sol (soh), had always been wrongly sung as saw instead of sol. I have kept correcting this at various fora – conferences, workshops, classroom teaching and in publications. (See Ikibȩ, 2003, p. 120; 2012, p.1; 2013, p.34; and 2014, pp.4-5). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ikibe, Solomon (2021). 203 Unilorin Inaugural Lecture Series "So it's Sol in Music as Man Uses Science In Communication" | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/10943 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Ilorin Library and Publications Committee, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Ilorin 203rd Inaugural Lecture;203 | |
| dc.subject | Sol, Music, Man, Uses, Science, In, Communication, Musicology, Tonic Sol-fa, Ethnomusicology, Composition, Musical Arrangement, | en_US |
| dc.title | University of Ilorin 203rd Inaugural Lecture | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | So it's Sol in Music as Man Uses Science In Communication | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |