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ALAGBA • Solo for Marching Snare Drum • JT Baker

Yoruba culture suggests that there exists a connection between the world of the living, the world of the dead and the world of the unborn. In many instances, in the case of the animal companion of a king, it was expected that they die after the king's passing, in order to serve the king in the afterlife. This cycle was broken by a tortoise of the palace of Ogbomoso, in Oyo state, Nigeria. Her name was Alagba. Reportedly brought to Ogbomoso sometime between 1770-1797, Alagba began as a companion to the king, and as each king died and she survived, she developed into being seen as a deity and a symbol of the Ogbomoso township. While the west only recognizes jonathan the tortoise as the oldest tortoise in the world at 187, and there is no way of positively verifying Alagba's age, she could have been the oldest known tortoise in the world at approx. 344. Marching snare drum is a tricky genre of interest. The typical business model is to discover drumming as a kid, and if it hits the right nerve, you light the fire and burn through the next 10 years obsessed with it, audition, get cut, audition, make it, perform, then age out. And you either continue on teaching, or disappear. Because of how young and unstable the modern marching activity is, if you decide to build a life in it, you can end up in the position of feeling stationary as the world shifts around you. Either you die with the king, or each king dies, and you remain. This solo can be interpreted in two ways. At face value, it's an exercise in vocabulary- what sounds have I developed over the years and how those can be tied together in one whole product- a treatise of my current outlook on the drum through the classic format of an "I&E" solo. On a deeper level, I implore the audience to interpret this piece how I see it- as a representation of the monolithic time in my life that was entering and moving through the snare drum world of the University of North Texas. The nights in the annex, carrying a drum to the park, sitting in a desk in the drumline class, the thousands of youtube videos and google drive links and ripped VHS tapes. These rituals pile up over years to feed one endeavor- the slow unfolding and learning of an instrument and its culture. "ALAGBA" functions to me as an accumulation of that time of my life, and what it means to me. Check it out, and I hope you enjoy 0:00 Intro 0:28 Part I 1:04 Part II 1:42 Part III 3:30 Part IV 4:16 Part V 5:16 Ending