Mupukumo

Title: Mupukumo
Creator: Sirifino Mutare
Creator: Two Bemba men
Creator: Hugh Tracey
Subject: Folk music--Africa
Subject: Lozi (African people)
Subject: Bemba (African people)
Subject: Folk songs, Bemba
Subject: Field recordings
Subject: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Subject: Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
Date Issued: 1952
Date: 1952
Type: sound recordings
Type: field recordings
Type: sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183789
Identifier: vital:44069
Identifier: International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Identifier: TR182-15
Description: The scale of this instrumet was:- 592, 544, 504, 456, 424, 376, 340, 308, 280, 252, 228 vs. With the exception of the new top intervals of the scale all the remainder are approximately 1 3/4 semitone each. The intervals measured in cents are:- 126, 208, 174, 172, 165, 182, 173 cents. This tune follows closely upon a well established and unmistakeably Bemba style of melody. When singing in parallel thirds the size of the consecutive thirds, taken from the measured scale would be:- 334, 382, 346, 337, 355 cents. Parallel fourths would be:- 508, 554, 511, 519, 520 cents. Drinking song with Mbira, Chilimba ya waBemba
Format: mp3
Format: 7" Reel
Format: 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
Format: Studer B67 Recorder
Format: Sound Forge V.6
Format: 00:02:51
Publisher: International Library of African Music
Language: Lozi
Language: Bemba
Rights: International Library of African Music
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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