Ninkutina
- Authors: Kabyoma Mashulamo with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kagya Bugabo / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172262 , vital:42181 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-05
- Description: "I am afraid of you chief because you are cunning as a leopard and you might kill me tomorrow." The singer, who is well known for leading this kind of song, had a very troublesome cough in the first item. Praise song with conical, laced drum played with sticks.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nkete
- Authors: Eliazale Kazinduki , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukoba f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171700 , vital:42113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-02
- Description: These horns, Makondere, are made of horn and of calabash gourds combined, bound together with skin (mostly cows tail) to keep the joints tight. They are cut open across the small end where a finger hole makes two notes possible on each horn. The mouthpiece is cut rectangularly on the side of the horn near the small end. These Makondere horn bands are now played upon special occasions at the chief's place. In the old days, they say, they were played after fighting when they came to report to the chief how they had fared. Victory song, after fighting with Makondere side blown horns, 1 conical laced drum (-14.22303-), 1 cylindrical, footed, pegged drum (14.01101-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nkingulila ngende
- Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171899 , vital:42136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-01
- Description: The fishermen haul in their nets onto the shore and call to each other instructions and encoragement. Lake Victoria is called Nyanja by the Haya people. "Open the door and let me out, I want to go to the village beyond." The singing of the fishermen as they go fishing out on the lake at night is a feature of the district. Their voices can be heard for miles across the quiet waters of the lake in behind the islands which protect their bay. They used a drum, they said, to help their singing as normally they would beat the gunwale of their canoe with the paddles. Fishing song, with conical laced drum beaten with sticks and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nkulagilienye omwaitu
- Authors: Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172556 , vital:42219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-09
- Description: A very simple song in which the chorus clap their hands turning them over, left over right, right over left, alternately. Katikomurweya Katisha dance songs for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum and clapping (-12.03).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nkurukumbi
- Authors: Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania/Uganda Bukoba/Kabale f-tz/f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171748 , vital:42121 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-05
- Description: "You, the girl who is being married." This song is sung when the mother of the bride is about to take both the bride and the bridegroom into their new house. It is sung by the rejoicing party upon the final act of the wedding ceremony when the bridegroom touches the breasts of his bride in front of all the people. The diction of the leader in all these songs is particularly clear. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ntajemerwa
- Authors: Kihuka and Ntajemerwa (Royal drummers) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169760 , vital:41820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-01
- Description: This set of drums is played when there is a special ceremonial gathering such as the opening of the Bunyoro Council, or on the first day of the new moon. It may also be played at other times. The royal Hima houses of Uganda are all drum minded, with special drums exclusively associated with royalty and royal occasions. Drum rhythm, with four conical drums, laced, closed, played with sticks, and two long stemmed Goblet drums, open, pinned, footed.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ntimbo, Kwebembera Omukama
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169793 , vital:41824 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-04
- Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nyamwanga obuyaza Buganda
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170092 , vital:41857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-14
- Description: Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1890 when the English took over the Protectorate. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nyamwiza omurongo
- Authors: Laurenti Kamwabwa with Haya boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kagya / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171824 , vital:42129 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-13
- Description: "Nyamwiza, the 'Queen'. You are my beloved and you come from a high born family." Nyamwiza, it appears was a local belle. Love song, with conical laced drum played with sticks and rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nyegera
- Authors: Nyakato Mwaga with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171770 , vital:42123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-07
- Description: Song to be sung during the wedding procession of the bride and bridegroom. Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nzaireki akatera empihi
- Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169934 , vital:41840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
- Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nzaireki akatera empihi
- Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169925 , vital:41839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
- Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Obalemege
- Authors: Yosamu Kanagwa and Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamukuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170263 , vital:41875 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-06
- Description: This praise, which both begins and ends with song, are frequently recited by men at parties. The subject of their adulation may be their host, their cattle or any subject gratifying their senses. Adulation of elders is part of the sycophantic social system common to many tribes and especially cattle owners. The practise of interspersing spoken praises between song is also found among the Sotho of Basutoland. The word Engabo means literally a brave man and these praises were originally intended to praise fighting men. Nowadays woth no fighting to be done the praises have been extended to any gratification and particularly of the 'Pombe' banana beer. Engabo praise, with conical drum. laced, single, played with hands and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Obugambo bunsemerire ngalyara
- Authors: Aloni Kiiza and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169593 , vital:41773 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-01
- Description: A ceertain man invited his friends to a drinking party and during the proceedings he spoke inspiring words to his guests which delighted them very much. "We were pleased with your words" they reply in chorus. The answer to an invitation to a drinking party. This song bears a remarkable similarity to the songs of the Karanga of Southern Rhodesia. It is also interesting to note that two Chopi men of Southern Mozambique when hearing this song, separately and several years apart, both claimed that the song was an old song of their own people. One man Gilbert Mahlatini stated it was a curative and other, Calisto Zavala, an initiation song. Drinking song, with Ebinyege leg rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Obundiba ntaizire
- Authors: Aloni Kiiza and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169602 , vital:41775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-02
- Description: "If I do not come in time, you will know there is something wrong with me.". "We were pleased with your words" they reply in chorus. The answer to an invitation to a drinking party. This song bears a remarkable similarity to the songs of the Karanga of Southern Rhodesia. It is also interesting to note that two Chopi men of Southern Mozambique when hearing this song, separately and several years apart, both claimed that the song was an old song of their own people. One man Gilbert Mahlatini stated it was a curative and other, Calisto Zavala, an initiation song. Drinking song, with Ebinyege leg rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Obw’omugabe Gasyonga II yagwara ekirunga
- Authors: Rusania and Nkole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169979 , vital:41844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-03
- Description: Song sung at the installation of the present (1950) Mugabe as head of all the Ankole. Mugabe Gasyonga II. The manner in which this song is sung gives impression that both the style and the words belong to an era of Hima conquest, when the Nkole first came from the north. Installation of a Chief.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Okuturukya Omukama
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169784 , vital:41823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-03
- Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Omtwale Kasha
- Authors: Ernest Kibuka with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172042 , vital:42151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-12
- Description: "Take him to Kasha's village, where he will be happy and have plenty to drink." A beer made from bananas is the favourite drink of the district. Note the somewhat complicated rhythmic structure of the song. Topical song with conical laced drum and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Omubanda
- Authors: Matesaiwe and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170117 , vital:41860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-16
- Description: The flute (Omubanda. s. Emibanda. pl.) is a notched flute, end blown onto a V shaped notch cut into the end of the open pipe. There are four finger holes in two pairs. These flutes usually accompany the chief country dance the Ekitagururo, a very simple rhythm. The clay poys, which cannot be distinguished in this recording are played by striking the orifice of the pot with a flat beater made of banana frond or leaf. Emibanda flute duet, with two conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, three clay pots, (Enyungu), rattles and two end blown notched flutes (Emibanda).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Omugere
- Authors: Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukoba f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171725 , vital:42116 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-04
- Description: "You, the girl who is being married." Song for the bride as she enters her new home. "You are now married. Look after your house, we bid you farewell.". Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1950