Typology of Choral Music in Ghana: Current Perspectives

Abstract

This paper introduces a new typology of choral music composition in Ghana. It investigates and analyses previous typologies of choral music compositional styles and synchronizes the efforts presented by earlier scholars since the introduction of choral art music composition in Ghana. Through a critical music analysis of compositional styles and a thoughtful observation of previous typologies, the author reveals a new dimension of choral music typology to incorporate traditional choral styles that have been abandoned in the previous typologies. The paper further seeks to incorporate the current choral music compositional fashions to present a survey of choral music compositional styles for the younger generation choral music composers to emulate or diversify.