ABSTRACT
The development of arts music composition as far as Africa and indeed Nigeria is concerned, is a resort to materials drawn from its immediate environment. It is a phenomenal factor for a researcher to follow the path of his predecessors and thus derives components from the traditional music of his people. This work will define how traditional musical components and techniques of composition could be utilized in establishing and identifiable culture. The title of this research work is “Adiaha Udo” and it centres on materials derived from the folk songs of the Ibibio people of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The selected folk songs are only used as thematic materials for the movements of this respectively. Adiaha Udo is written for piano alone to capture and bring to mind the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic textures of traditional folk music. It also seeks to contribute to a new usage of traditional musical idiom of expression in contemporary music composition. This entire work is subsumed under five chapters. Chapter One deals with the Introduction and the General Background of the Entire Work. Chapter Three highlights the Review of Related Literature on the Work. Chapter Four explains thje performance prescriptions of the work and the analysis of the composition together with the provision of compositional procedures. Chapter Five which is the last chapter presents the composition (original),the summary, Recommendation and Conclusion.