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Lolo mntwanami (Hush, my child)

- Justine Shabangu, Hugh Tracey

Akantaiba No. I

- Mulobo Maswa and Soga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamodi f-ug
  • Language: Soga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171561 , vital:42091 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-08
  • Description: These two versions of the same flute were recorded by Mulobo Maswa in September 1950 and again in June 1952. He has been the offical flute player to the royal house of the Kyabazinga of the Soga people, ever since he was a young boy. The first version was recorded after midnight under a starlit sky, and in the second version he was accompanied by two old friends on the drum. The audience sitting around him had to join in as well. The tune "Akantaiba" is taken from a song said to be a century or two old which says, "If your wife is rude to you, she loves another. If your servant is rude to you, he wants to leave you." Flute tune with Ndele, end blown, notched and 4 holed flute (14.2-).
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Lalala lise

- Zande elephant drivers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zande elephant drivers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Alur (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Dungu f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Vongara
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168004 , vital:41530 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0124-02
  • Description: The song was learnt from the original Indian trainers who came across to Africa from India with Indian elephants when the experimental training of African elephants was begun in North Eastern Congo in 1910. The songs taught to the local Zande mahouts or trainers (locally called Cornacs) have survived though local words have partly replaced the original words of the Indians. The original Indian mahouts impressed upon the Zande the need for singing to their elephants, an instruction they have never neglected. Work song for riding and driving tamed elphants.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Song after moving camp

- Moke with Mbuti men, Hugh Tracey

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

Arap Chepsiolei

- Malakwen Chepsaikut, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malakwen Chepsaikut , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Mijikenda (African people) , Nandi (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapsabet f-ke
  • Language: Nandi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176838 , vital:42764 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR164-03
  • Description: This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was:- 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs. Praise and topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Jamagara

- Odongo with Dhola men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Odongo with Dhola men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
  • Language: Adhola
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169228 , vital:41702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-04
  • Description: This set of xylophone notes is played by five men, two on the one side and there on the other side of the notes which lie on their banana supports between them. The players beat the ends of the notes, not their centres, and if they slip out of place they are pushed back by the players on either side. The notes are made of Isambya wood. These xylophones are played at funeral and other parties especially for the older folk. The leader is called Jachiogo and the other players Jegini. Kwabyalumbe dance tunes with Ndara 13 note xylophone.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kamwhino wa Mwikya

- Munyithya wa Kyenze, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175851 , vital:42630 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-04
  • Description: The singer sings to his lost love. He reminds her that he loved her even before she grew up. He had asked her to speak to him, but she refused and used to speak to another. The singer uses his lute as a rhythmic rather than a melodic instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the two basic notes of his lute, but the interval may bear some constant relationship which is not discernable to a foreign ear at first hearing. On the other hand the lute may be considered as a two note 'drone' to the melody. It will be noticed that the pitch of his lute slightly lower in this and the next song "Musenga." Love song, with Mbebe, one string, bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kyamukuku

- Sergent Joseph Musisi and Bamba men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sergent Joseph Musisi and Bamba men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bundibugyo f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170452 , vital:41924 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-08
  • Description: "Who has the authority in this place?" "After the white man comes the Chief and after the Chief it is the Sergent who has the authority." This song was perfomed by two convicts from the local prison let out for the occasion. They were accomapanied by the Sergent in charge of the prison who sang jovially with his arms around his wards shoulders. Humorous song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Lukhano lunarula

- Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Wamimbi Magombe and Gishu men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Gisu (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
  • Language: Masaba (Gisu, Kisu, Dadiri, Buya)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169511 , vital:41758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0131-12
  • Description: Boys who are ready for initiation are warned in this song of the pain they muct experience and exhorted to be brave. Imbalu circumcision dance with Mungiri leg bells, European whistle and side blown horn, open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ntimbo, Kwebembera Omukama

- Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Saiya Mikamba

- Yuspina Gadwin with Ghaga girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yuspina Gadwin with Ghaga girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Marangu f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174318 , vital:42466 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-09
  • Description: "Saiya Mikamba is sick." Marangu is the small village on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The first of these songs may not be an authentic Chaga song, but is rather similiar to songs in the schools. Temo dance song for girls with stamping and bass drums, laced, played with sticks, (-14.05303-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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