Choix musicaux dans le film d’animation « Aya de Yopougon » : influence narrative et représentation culturelle ?

The film is not just visual. It’s also auditory. Its auditory aspect encompasses three (03) components: Voice-Over and/or in (dialogue); sound effects; and music. Regarding music, it is established that its creation for thefilm is not done ex-nihilo. It participates in the film’s framework as it forms, along with the other auditory and visual components, an osmosis that anticipates an architectural design aimed at conveying a message. However, while there is abundant literature on the creative and decision-making processes guiding music choices in European and American cinema, this is not the case for African cinema.This article attempts to fill this documentary gap through musical analyses of certain sequences from the animated film «Aya de Yopougon.» The study examines the creative and decision-making processes from which the musical ideas contained in this Ivorian film emerge, thereby providing some specific technico-speculative keys to African cinema in terms of film music.KEYWORDS:Animated film –Film music –Musical semiotic analysis –African cinema.