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Amina

Bwezi langa

  • Authors: Hodede Homwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186489 , vital:44504 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-08
  • Description: "I had a friend but the high God has taken him away." The pauses in the music are caused by the necessity of having to apply spittle to the bow. The fingering of the single string is done by the inside of the 2nd segment of the fingers of the left hand and not by the tips of the fingers. The open string was tuned to 182 vs. The string was made of twisted Wazi bark, it had a small friction pad of Ilala palm leaf (koko) wound onto where the reed bow (uta) was applied to the string. A loop of bark string was used near the Mtowo peg for fine tuning straining the string downwards the Mpini neck. The goat skin membrane was pinned onto a carved wooden bowl with a sound hole cut into its side. Lament, with 1 stringed Karigo lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ngeniso movement of Ngodo of Banguza 1949

  • Authors: waSimbi, Komukomu , Ngodo waBanguza , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1949-06-05
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Mavila, Zavala District f-rh
  • Language: Chpoi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/199066 , vital:46065 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-018 , Research no. CP1
  • Description: Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, drumming and singing, accompanied by brief, intermittent whistling and rattles. Orchestral dance song for the Ngeniso movement of the Ngodo of Banguza of 1949.
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  • Date Issued: 1949-06-05

Msitso woKata

  • Authors: Faduko, Fomeni , Ngodo of Zandamela , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1949-06-04
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
  • Language: Chpoi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198799 , vital:46034 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-016 , Research no. CN11
  • Description: Indigenous folk song with a timbila xylophone orchestra and background cries. This is an experimental cut taken inside the chiefs office hut to test the acoustic difference to the version played outside, and features only eight players. Orchestral dance for Msitso woKata, the first movement of the Ngodo of Zandamela of 1949.
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  • Date Issued: 1949-06-04

Eto ninga mahwa

Mawotana

Mtsumeto movement

Tambara

Mbandhla movement

Msitso wokata 1st orchestral introduction

Mfumu chindikeni Afrika

Title not specified

Bangisi

Bata wasunga mulundu

Chief Gideon Magak

  • Authors: Daudi Otuoma (Performer) , Daudi Otuoma (Composer)
  • Subjects: Praise song for the chief , Indigenous folk music , Thum eight string bowl lyre , Gara leg bells , Kasipul , Kendu Bay , Kenya
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15278 , MOA02-10 , MOA2 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017221
  • Description: Praise song (for the chief) by Daudi Otuoma with thum eight string bowl lyre, accompanied by gara leg bells , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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Dzoli

  • Authors: Gabriel Ebongoma (Performer) , Composer not specified
  • Subjects: Topical , Indigenous folk music , Neikembe , Ebandrombi , Medje , Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15396 , MOA28-20 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017702 , MOA28
  • Description: Topical folk song by Gabriel Ebongoma, accompanied by neikembe (11 reeds, 1 manual, box with sound hole) , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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Ku lila ku na madandila

Rambuda o vhuya nndwani

Thovhela

Vhasidzana Part I

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