Kawoza ndirinde
- Authors: Filimon Phiri , Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184911 , vital:44286 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-12
- Description: The story is about a chief who died and left a window. People used to come and visit her every evening. She would play them a magical drum both to entertain her visitors and also to remind her of her husband. The drum would play rhythms by itself being touched. Story song
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ncembele imbi kamphundu
- Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184653 , vital:44245 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-10
- Description: The slight pauses in the song are the points where the bow of bamboo needed a little more spittle, necessitating its removal from the string. Most simple string lutes of this kind are bowed with a sisal bow, but occassionaly, as in this case, with a short lenght of bamboo, a sliver taken from the outside of the stalk. Instead of natural rezin the players use spittle. Humorous song with Karigo one stringed lute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Swaluu-Alah maachini-l-imaan I
- Authors: Watoto wa Madrasa el-Hasanain , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179478 , vital:43069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR169-11
- Description: All items on this disc are included as example of the African adoptation of Arabic styles of music on the coast. This choice is composed of 12 young Swahili boys with a man soloist (el-ustadh) and three teachers playing the "duff" tambourines. Arabic and the lingua franca, Swahili, are part of the inheritance of all the coast dwellers and on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It is interesting to note how easily these African born Swahili children appear to adopt Arabic music with far greater facility that the efforts of most African children to sing European songs Kasida, Moslem Religious chants, with 3 Duff frame drums (tambourines).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Woca mwana
- Authors: Nezala Shonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mukotsama f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185285 , vital:44361 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-07
- Description: "She burnt her child, carelessly! She has fine great hips, a delight to the touch!" A song of broad rustic humour by a Ngoni singer in the language of the district-Tumbuka. Humorous song with Bango board zither
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nyasaland police march
- Authors: Nyasaland Police Band , Gukha, Shamshersing (Bandmaster) , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-09-12
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Zomba f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/209740 , vital:47417 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT104-C122 , Research no. C5K1
- Description: Military march song accompanied by the 27 piece Brass Band.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-09-12
Tikangai nadenda
- Authors: Katanga, Sami Societe , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Lubumbashi, Elisabethville f-cg
- Language: Swhaili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202685 , vital:46555 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-032 , Research no. C2S13
- Description: English translation of title 'Let me put off my clothes my love.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-05
Munakala pango
- Authors: Tonga Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-14
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Guiguni, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202430 , vital:46519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-030 , Research no. CX4
- Description: Indigenous folk song with voices, drumming, rattles, struck percussion, background cries and an unspecified aerophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-14
Mamane Wa Bebe
- Authors: Mafilori, Isabela , Young Shangaan girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Bilene Macia f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197156 , vital:45845 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-004 , Research no. CG4
- Description: Indigenous work folk song with unaccampanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-28
Nwamanyange
- Authors: Shangaan men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Incomati Sugar Estates f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197710 , vital:45901 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-007 , Research no. CE7
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing and intermittent whistling using hlengane (short buck horn).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-25
Msitso woKata I
- Authors: Mkoma Ramao Mtoti , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Kanda f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194555 , vital:45461 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR207-01
- Description: The orchestral tuning was as follows:- 536, 488, 440, 400, 364, 328, 300, 268 vs. This is a Ngilishi's orchestra. but he was ill at the time and unable to lead his musicians for this recording. The dances in this Ngodo were striking for their variations and vigour. Orchestral introductions with Timbila xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
The Ngodo of Regulo Zandamela. Msitso woMbidi (2nd Movement)
- Authors: Fomeni Faduko (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela's f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194441 , vital:45449 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR206-02
- Description: The ochestra was not in very good tune that year, several instruments being off pitch in one or two notes. The scale was: 496, 488, 448, 404, 368, 332, 300, 248 vs. This recording is not of high fidelity quality but merits inclusion in this series as comparative evidence of Chopi musicianship at the time (1949). Orchestral dance with 23 Timbila xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
The Ngodo of Regulo Zandamela. Ngeniso (4th Movement)
- Authors: Fomeni Faduko (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela's f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194459 , vital:45451 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR206-04
- Description: The ochestra was not in very good tune that year, several instruments being off pitch in one or two notes. The scale was: 496, 488, 448, 404, 368, 332, 300, 248 vs. Orchestral dance with 23 Timbila xylophones.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949