This book investigates the origin in European tradition of military music in Nigeria and its subsequent development and indigenization within the Nigerian cultural milieu. Among other things, the results show that there are four historical periods with regard to the processes of evolution and indigenization of military music in Nigeria. It also reveals that, even though European styled military music, as practised in Nigeria still depends heavily on the use of many European structural forms, composers employ a lot of Nigerian traditional musical devices. The study concludes that...