Maboko ga Moswetsi Kgakole (Praises for Moswetsi Kgakole)
- Authors: The brother of the man who killed the lion , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mochudi f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166227 , vital:41340 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-03
- Description: These praises were spoken by the brother of the man who killed the lion and the praises are his fathers's praises, recited while the lion's skin was being presented to the Chief Murusi Pilane. Praises.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ede! Ede!
- Authors: Young Chewa boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153347 , vital:39439 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-05
- Description: Song among those sung by young girls and boys at night in their respective huts before going to sleep. It appears that there are many such songs of traditional usage. As they fall off to sleep the singing gets more fitful and finally fades away. "You quarrel with me. If there is another love I will go away." Children's song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
M'dankaka nawo (I should have come with you)
- Authors: Five elderly Chewa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza f-mw
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160625 , vital:40484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR098-07
- Description: The wife is singing to her husband. Lionde is the well-known ferry across the shire river, north of Blantyre on the main north road. It is above 100 miles from their village. The word Konsolo comes from the English word "Council" and was at the time in the 1930's considered a word of high praise for the most important people of the district. "I should have come with if only Lionde was near by. But because it is so far, I cannot come with you." Konsolo dance song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ndaji! Jize! (Ready! Right!)
- Authors: Mulanzi and Malunja , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Njolomole, Ncheu f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Chewa/Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155644 , vital:39903 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR086-14
- Description: Riddles are an ever popular pastime among many tribes. In the distance can be heard young boys, playing a drum over on the other side of the village. The call "Ndaji" is sometimes "Ndagi'. Riddles.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Nguwo yanga (My cloth)
- Authors: Young Chewa boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Vidzumo, Kasungu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153356 , vital:39441 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-06
- Description: Song among those sung by young girls and boys at night in their respective huts before going to sleep. It appears that there are many such songs of traditional usage. As they fall off to sleep the singing gets more fitful and finally fades away. "My own cloth - My poor cloth. You laugh at the holes in my cloth." Taken from the days when people only wore cloth, before Europeans came. Children's song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Amai netini kone chamba
- Authors: Josita Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk songs , Songs, Nyanja , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Africa South Africa Northern Transvaal f-sa
- Language: Nyanja , Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137529 , vital:37534 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR038-10
- Description: A mother was cutting her child's hair. The child says: "Mother why do you do this? I want to go and play." Selef-delectative song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings
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- Date Issued: 1957
Kanakazibulu
- Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138966 , vital:37691 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-04
- Description: Played with 4 notes. The notes were roughly hewn pieces of wood laid across the thighs ans played by means of sticks. In this case, the player stood behind the back of the young man on whose thighs the notes were played and beat the notes bending forward over his shoulders. The man acting as xylophone stand sat on a stool with his feet on another stool. Beneath his thighs was a large pot used as simple external resonator. The instrument is played out in the fields when preparing the winter gardens in May. Once the gardens are planted, the xylophone notes are discarded and used as fire wood, new ones being cut each year. The position of the loose notes was changed with each change of tune to facilitate the playing of the item. The pause during the 3rd recording was caused by one of the notes rolling down the boys's thigh and having to be replaced. Self-delectative song with Chikirekore loose note xylophone x 4 notes, pot resonated.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Msitso woraru 1st, 2nd and 3rd Orchestral introduction
- Authors: Chopi performers (Performers) , Komukomu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Orchestral music , Xylophone with orchestra , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132281 , vital:36819 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR005-03
- Description: Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Bangaza with 15 xylophones and 1 rattle
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- Date Issued: 1955
Bwezi langa
- Authors: Hodede Homwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186489 , vital:44504 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-08
- Description: "I had a friend but the high God has taken him away." The pauses in the music are caused by the necessity of having to apply spittle to the bow. The fingering of the single string is done by the inside of the 2nd segment of the fingers of the left hand and not by the tips of the fingers. The open string was tuned to 182 vs. The string was made of twisted Wazi bark, it had a small friction pad of Ilala palm leaf (koko) wound onto where the reed bow (uta) was applied to the string. A loop of bark string was used near the Mtowo peg for fine tuning straining the string downwards the Mpini neck. The goat skin membrane was pinned onto a carved wooden bowl with a sound hole cut into its side. Lament, with 1 stringed Karigo lute
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- Date Issued: 1950