Okulitanga ya ngombe
- Authors: Petrus Sefeni , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Kuanyama (African people) , Ovambo (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Ovamboland f-sx
- Language: Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195528 , vital:45575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR215-12
- Description: Praises of cattle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Chimveka tune
- Authors: Eight small Chopi boys , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193331 , vital:45322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-16
- Description: Chimveka, they say, are only played at the end of the harvest season when there is plenty of food. In time of famine these pipes are never heard. Bands of small Chopi boys can often be seen out in the bush capering around in a tight circle, heads close together and blowing their flutes almost into each others cars. They seem to enjoy the excessive noise at close quarters. The scale of the flutes would appear to be arbitrary and does not correspond with the scale of the Timbila xylophones. The tuning of this set of pipes was:- 632, 592, 544, 488, 412, 372, 348 vs. giving intervals of 112, 147, 188, 148, 145, 177 and 115 cents respectively. Reed end-blown pipes, with rattles and stamping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Chimveka tune
- Authors: Eight small Chopi boys , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193340 , vital:45323 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-17
- Description: Chimveka, they say, are only played at the end of the harvest season when there is plenty of food. In time of famine these pipes are never heard. Bands of small Chopi boys can often be seen out in the bush capering around in a tight circle, heads close together and blowing their flutes almost into each others cars. They seem to enjoy the excessive noise at close quarters. The scale of the flutes would appear to be arbitrary and does not correspond with the scale of the Timbila xylophones. The tuning of this set of pipes was:- 632, 592, 544, 488, 412, 372, 348 vs. giving intervals of 112, 147, 188, 148, 145, 177 and 115 cents respectively. Reed end-blown pipes, with rattles and stamping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ha-a, twanana
- Authors: Makanana, Daine Mutombeni , Shangaan women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187781 , vital:44696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-08
- Description: The name of this singer Makanana means 'Jump for joy'. These Shangan or Tsonga people of the Transvaal are related to the Shangaans of Mozambique many of them having come up onto the highlands during the war of pacification between Gungunyana and the Portuguese at the turn of the century. "When we were still in love, in Johannesburg, it was fine." Love song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Homolela ngwanaka
- Authors: Four Pedi women and a baby , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189265 , vital:44832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-13
- Description: It is hard to decide whether lullabies such as this are meant to put the baby to sleep or merely to drown its crying with an even louder noise. "Keep my child. We shall go to Sabie. We shall eat bread, food for the whites. Keep quiet my child." (A different town is mentioned in each verse). Lullaby
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Waselo waselo
- Authors: Chewa women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252334 , vital:52226 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT594-M66 , Research no. M3H17
- Description: A chintala women dance song about the promiscuity of a mans wife.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
Kulene mamama ndaimbirira, nikawa kapongo ndaimbirira
- Authors: Mutanga, Tenesi , Tonga men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/235722 , vital:50335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT464-L85 , Research no. L2J9
- Description: A mendicant's song accompanied by the sound of feet and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-29
Matshoba
- Authors: Women and children of Dabi's Location , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-05
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228059 , vital:49516 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT391-L12 , Research no. L1G1a
- Description: Indigenous folk threshing song with singing accompanied by the sound of sticks being struck on the ground .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-05
Didiyela nonkala ngasemlanjeni
- Authors: Xhosa women of Kalana Location , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-04
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa King Williams town f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/227998 , vital:49509 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT390-L11 , Research no. L1E5b
- Description: Indigenous divining folk song with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-04
Msitso Wombidi of Ngodo wa Mikumbi 1955
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Mikumbi , Zandamela, John , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-09-30
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Portuguese East Africa f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225168 , vital:49192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT352-J1 , Research no. H1J1b
- Description: First orchestral introduction of the Ngodo wa Mikumbi 1955, played on timbila xylophone and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-09-30
Msitso niMhauzelo
- Authors: Nyalisenga, Nyampose , Ngodo of Nyakutowo , Chiwangana, Maditane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-09
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200994 , vital:46313 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-024 , Research no. CS2
- Description: Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones and singing, accompanied by rattles and whistling. Orchestral dance song for the Mdano movement of the Ngodo of Nyakutowo of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-09