Description: Scope/Content: Oba Koso-Glover Memorial Hall, Lagos; Scene 1 & 2Description: Characters - Sango, Wife, Gbonka, TimiEssential Plot . Two generals - feuding, desiring war. Timi sent off to war with the Ijeshas. He wins and establishes Ede. Gbonka sent to subdue him, in hopes he'll get bumped off. Gbonka wins. Comes back a hero, gains favor.. Sango despairs - what to do?. Wife advises new fight in Oyo in market. Sango orders new fight. Gbonka goes to forest spirit for stronger medicine. Fight - Gbonka wins. People rally to Gbonka. Sango despairs suicideEuropean influences. Leitmotif - Sango, Counselors, Timi. Scenes - scenery, lighting, costume, "orchestrated" music, written storyInstruments. Dundun band. Bata drums (for Sango). Igbin (at announcement moments). Gbonka's fluteMisc. Bamboo flutes (Piper's Guild, Pipe Maker's Guild, Union Settlement House).
Item number: 2005.09_088. Includes updated metadata from Jesse Ruskin.About 5 mins. of extra tape at the end. Conserv. note: Digitized 2012-10-22 at 24bit/96khz. Staff note: Hand written liner notes included.
Participant/Performer Note:
Contributors: Darius Louis Thieme.
Original Version:
Reproduction of: Reel no. Oba Koso; OK-1 April 30, 1965. n.d. sound tape reel: 7 1/2 ips, single track, mono.; 7 in. Field Recording.
Location of Originals:
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles
Copyright Note:
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles
