Thomas Eze Ekundayo Phillips

  Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips (1884 – 10 Julaị 1969) bụ onye Naijiria organist, onye nduzi, onye na-agụ egwú na onye nkuzi nke akọwara dị ka “nna nke egwu ụka ụka Naijiria”

Ndụ

Thomas Ekundayo Phillips mụrụ na 1884. Nna ya bụ Bishọp Charles Phillips nke Ondo. Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ CMS Grammar dị na Legọs wee gaa na ụlọ akwụkwọ Ọzụzụ Gọọmenti maka ndị na-ekesa ihe, bụ ebe o tozuru oke dịka Chemist. Ọ ghọrọ onye dibịa anya site n'ọrụ ya. A gbara Phillips ume ka ọ mụọ egwu site n'aka Archdeacon Nathaniel, nwanne nna ya. Nwanne nna ya Johnson Phillips, onye ụkọchukwu Anglịkan, nyere ya nkuzi akụkụ ahụ nke mbụ ya. Solomon Moses Daniels, onye omenkà a ma ama na St Paul's Church, Aroloya, nyere ya nkuzi n'ịgba egwu egwu. Ọ bụ onye enyemaka Organist na St Paul's Church, Lagos ruo 1914.

Phillips gara Trinity College of Music na London site na 1911 ruo 1914, ebe ọ gụrụ organ, piano na violin. Enyere ya Fellowship of Trinity College of Music, London (FTCML) na egwu egwu, Phillips bụ onye Naijiria nke abụọ nwetara nzere baccalaureate na egwu. Mgbe ọ lọghachiri na Naijiria na 1914 Bishọp Herbert Tugwell kpọrọ Phillips ka ọ bụrụ organist na Master of the Music na Katidral Church of Christ, Lagos. Ọ ga-ejigide ọnọdụ a afọ iri anọ na asatọ. Nwanne ya nwoke nke okenye ghọrọ bishọp nke katidral, bishọp Afrịka nke abụọ n’ebe ahụ mgbe Achịbishọp Leslie Vining gachara.

Phillips zụrụ ụmụakwụkwọ ama ama dịka Fela Sowande, Ayo Bankole, Lazarus Ekwueme, Christopher Oyesiku na nwa ya nwoke Charles Oluwole Obayomi Phillips, bụ onye nọchiri ya na Ụka ​​Katidral nke Kraịst. Fela Sowande na-echeta mgbe niile ọzụzụ Phillips nyere, nke bụ nnukwu enyemaka n'ọrụ nke ya. N'afọ 1964, Mahadum Naijiria, Nsukka nyere Phillips nzere Dọkịta egwu egwu maka ntinye aka ya na mmepe egwu ụka Naijiria. Phillips nwụrụ na 10 Julaị 1969. Ọ mụrụ ụmụ ise.

Ọrụ

N'afọ 1926, Phillips nyere ndị Synod nke Diocese nke Lagos ndụmọdụ, bụ nke a nabatara, ka ha jiri "ikuku ala" na-eje ozi n'ụka. Ọtụtụ n'ime ọrụ ya gụnyere egwu ụka nke gụnyere abụ, abụ antiphonal, ukwe ukwe n'asụsụ Yoruba na ọrụ solo abụọ, Passacaglia on an African Folk Song na Variations on an African Folk Song. Phillips dere mkpirisi akụkụ akụkụ atọ dị mkpụmkpụ, mana ọtụtụ akụkụ akụkụ ya dabere na isiokwu ụmụ amaala dị adị. O mere ndokwa ọgbara ọhụrụ nke mbụ nke Ise Oluwa, bụ abụ Ndị Kraịst kacha ewu ewu na Yoruba, maka SATB na ngwa ahụ. Phillips bụ onye ode akwụkwọ egwu Yoruba (Johannesburg: African Music Society, 1953), akwụkwọ akụkọ egwu izizi nke onye egwu Africa zụrụ azụ iji kparịta egwu Africa. Akwụkwọ a kọwara nke ọma egwu ọdịnala ndị Yoruba ma gosi ka e nwere ike isi tinye echiche dị n'ọdịnala obodo a n'ọrụ ọgbara ọhụrụ.

Akwụkwọ

• Peel (2003). Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21588-9.