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.
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- 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
Omukazi owajumire embuzi
- Authors: Amosi Bitanako , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170286 , vital:41879 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-09
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Omukazi owazaire enkirungu
- Authors: Amosi Bitanako , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170281 , vital:41878 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-08
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Omukungu nakanyagwe
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169620 , vital:41777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-04
- Description: Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings about a local sub-chief Umukunga, the Gambololo of Buhimba. During the 1939-45 war he was asked to recruit men for the army but all he sent to the Kings African Rifles was his own brother. "What a shame" the old man sings, "we should have done better than that.". The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Omurimo gwangye
- Authors: Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170002 , vital:41847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-05
- Description: Song praising the beauties of their land, the Banyaguru county, with its many crater lakes along the edge of the rift valley, its fresh and its bananas. The style of singing suggested foreign influence although the singers assured us it was indigenous. Patriotic song, used as dance song for boys and girls, with two conical drums, laced, single and a raft rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Orukobya
- Authors: Tito Manyuru and Nyoro men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169874 , vital:41833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-13
- Description: This dance was named after a certain girl named Komunjara who invented the new steps of the dance. She was a famous dancer in the district. Komunjara dance song with gourd rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Owa Kalema
- 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/10962/171944 , vital:42141 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-06
- Description: "The Mukama of Kalema we call 'King Jojo'." (King George). These fishermen come from the district of Chief Garikani of Kalema. A touch of local patriotism compares their chief with the King of England. Paddling song with conical laced drum, beaten with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Owangye n’omunyoro omu Kongo
- Authors: Razaro Begumiza 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 Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170020 , vital:41849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-07
- Description: The song is about the girl as beautiful as a Congo girl. Entogoro dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Rukidi
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169693 , vital:41789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-10
- Description: The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform special functions, one of which was to play early in the morning to waken the chief's household. This duty was performed in the past by the Ntimbo drummers of the Mukama of Bunyoro. "Our Mukama who speaks with the clouds the most learned and wise Mukama, who has been to England." Ntimbo praise song with four Ntimbo Goblet drums, pinned, open, ling stem and small foot. For holding under the arm (not for standing).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Rwabazira
- Authors: Mahibo 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/10962/170254 , vital:41874 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-05
- 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
Rwaflanembe
- Authors: Abanyabyata Royal band, leader: Bulasio Araya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169816 , vital:41827 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-07
- Description: The Makondere horns are played on the first day of the new moon and also upon important occasions such as the installation of a new Mukama. Horn tune with Makondere gourd horns.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Rwakagasha
- Authors: Ruthahindurwa Lukuka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Gera / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172316 , vital:42187 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-11
- Description: A praise song in honour of the singer's father who was a well-to-do man of the ruling class in this Bukoba country. In this song the sound of the body of the Zither vibrating against the external resonator, upturned gourd or wooden bowl, can be heard. This deep noted Nanja is tuned:- 176, 160, 144, 136, 124, 106 vs. The seveth note was not well in tune as it was too low for the weight of the string to sound properly. Praise song with Nanga trough zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Rwakyesiga ensolima
- Authors: Babyesiga , 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/10962/169651 , vital:41781 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-06
- Description: "A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African fashion. The tuning of this harp is as follows:- 336, 304, 252, 200, 168, (152), (126) vs, strings 7 and 8 were slightly out of tune, and should be 152 and 126. Topical song with Ekidongo eitht string horizontal harp.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Rwosere
- Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169829 , vital:41828 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-08
- Description: "Rwosere was a person who did not like work. We do not like lazy people." If what we hear is true most men in this district must be called Rwosere. Four players perform on the one xylophone, three on one side and one on the other. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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- Date Issued: 1950