- Title
- Elija
- Creator
- Joshua Omwami and John Manyasi
- Creator
- Hugh Tracey
- Subject
- Folk music--Kenya
- Subject
- Folk music
- Subject
- Field recordings
- Subject
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Subject
- Africa Kenya Bunyore f-ke
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Date
- 1950
- Type
- sound recordings
- Type
- field recordings
- Type
- sound recording-musical
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176554
- Identifier
- vital:42714
- Identifier
- International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Identifier
- TR162-07
- Description
- The lyre was played horizontally with the right hand plucking the group of four strings and near the bridge. The left hand extended to pluck the group of 3 strings near the crossbar. The scale was:- 416, 352, 304, 268, 248, 232, 208 vs. The lyre is used more as a rhythmic base rather than melodic instrument, though the player can and indeed frequently does play the melody. Praise song, with Litungu lyre, 7 string leg bells and gourd rattle (-12.54-).
- Format
- mp3
- Format
- 7" Reel
- Format
- 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo
- Format
- Studer B67 Recorder
- Format
- Sound Forge V.6
- Format
- 00:02:46
- Publisher
- International Library of African Music
- Language
- Luya
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Ceative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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