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Abagenyi baizere

- Nyoro men of Bunyoro District, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abagenyi Baizire

- Stephen Kaholya, Nyoro men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abagenyi baizire

- Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen Kaholya 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/10962/169747 , vital:41795 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-16
  • Description: "The visitors have arrived", a welcome to the visitors at a party. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abagungu

- Samuiri Bitadwa, Nyoro men of Bunyoro District, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abagungu

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/169914 , vital:41838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-17
  • Description: The Bagungu people are fishermen and live near the eastern shore of Lake Albert. They are renowned for their cheerful rhythmic dancing with leg rattles. The water lizard skin membranes of their drums make for high quality drumming and clear finger work. The 'Legevans' or iguana are found near the lake shore, they say. 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

Abagungu

- Samuiri Bitadwa, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abahira tweninde

- Performer not specifed, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abakaikula kitulayeza twena tucome Mlekule

- Siluvesitere Ilaliya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Siluvesitere Ilaliya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
  • Language: Zinza
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172689 , vital:42271 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-04
  • Description: "When we harvest our crops we shall all enjoy dancing the Mlekule." Mlekule is a dance perfromed for the chief at his village. The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abakaikulu kitulayeza twena tucome Mlekule

- Siluvesitere, Ilaliya, Zinza women, Tracey, Hugh

Abakankuli Kitulayeza Turena mlekule

- Siluvesitere Ilaliya, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abale tikalimbana

- Sabuni, Robati, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Sabuni, Robati , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi City not specified f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/314650 , vital:59623 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2706-XYZ6269
  • Description: Indigenous music
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Abale Tikalimbana

- Sabuni, Robati, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abamalaya

- Salima with Haya women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Salima with Haya women , 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/10962/172604 , vital:42227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-12
  • Description: The subject of this song refers to the burning question in Bukoba at the time (1950), that of the recent rebellion on the part of the women against virtual enslavement by the men. It has given rise to the most interesting social complications. The rattle is played with a circular movement of the wrist. Ngondo dance song for girls, with 1 laced conical drum and gourd rattle (-12.54-) and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abantalapa

- Mabena, Mishak, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abarinda nibarwana

- Eria Rubanda, Nkole men, Rubanda, Eria, Tracey, Hugh

Abarinda nibarwana

- Eria Rubanda and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

Abatuga Abagalana

- Zakaria Kasara, Endongo za Buganda, Kasara, Zakaria, Tracey, Hugh

Abatuga abagalana

- Sergent Joseph Musisi and Bamba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Joseph Musisi and Bamba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
  • Language: Ganda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170466 , vital:41925 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-09
  • Description: "People born in Uganda should love each other." The tuning with the Endongo lyre in the order of strings from lowest to highest in position of playing is as follows:- 448, 528, 592, 264, 224, 340, 296, 404. The lyre is held with the strings horizontal with the left hand plucking from above, the right hand from below. The order of strings is irregular, but traditionally constant in their placing. Topical song, with Endongo bowl lyre with 8 strings, Ndingidi one string bowed lute, and one Ntenga conical drum, laced, single.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abazi okuzanhola

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Abiia nensawo asiima

- S. Mondo, Hugh Tracey

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