Ndalile Nyantungu mpaka kalunguyu
- Authors: Zebikile Kahasa with Zinza men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Lunazi f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172728 , vital:42274 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-07
- Description: "I will go towards Nyantungu until I reach Kaluguyu." Four men and women were playing the one drum, each beating out his own rhythm on his quater of the membrane. Strangely enough this did not deaden the sound as one might have expected. Before the drum maker closes up his laced drum he places a small stone inside. This they call 'Moyo wengoma,' the drum's heart. It does not serve any musical purpose but is found in every drum in the region. Marunda dance song for men and women with 1 conical, laced drum.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ngoma yalilamuno yayenda Maraya Pemba
- Authors: Bangilana Nduhila with Zinza men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalulungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172759 , vital:42277 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-10
- Description: "He is playing his drum well because he is hoping to pick up a girl to take with him to Pemba." The drumming is similar to that found over the border in Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda), but the singing is not. Kilongo dance song for men and women, with 3 conical laced drums played with sticks and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nipande mpola baskeli
- Authors: Wibingile Kabaza , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172709 , vital:42273 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-06
- Description: "I will ride the bicycle carefully because I am tired." The microphone started beneath the instrument and was moved above when he started singing in order to show the difference of tone between the upper and lower surfaces of the resonator. It is interesting to note that unlike the Likembe Mbira further south, the resonator of this instrument is broader at the top than at the bottom, i.e. the bridge end is the broader. The scale was:- 332, 308, 280, 252, 228, 204, 184, 166 vs. Self delecatative tune, with Marimbe Likembe, box resonated, 18 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nyalubungo nibarutenga
- Authors: Tegalyoma Tilwesobwa with Zinza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyalubungo f-tz
- Language: Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172671 , vital:42269 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-02
- Description: "Even the Nyalubongo like this song." The Nyalubongo, it seems, are hard to please. The second song has an attractive change of rhythm. Wedding song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nyankabila, mama we
- Authors: Peter Manyanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172793 , vital:42283 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-12
- Description: "Nyankabila lost himself in a far off land. His father longs for his return." This shape of the instrument, they say has been introduced from Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda) to the west. The shape of its resonating box is distinctive, the lower end being arched and concave, in place of the more usual plan rectangle. The scale was:- 600, 528, 464, 396, 368, 300. Self delectative song, with Ikembe Likembe, 10 notes.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Samaza
- Authors: Peter Manyanga with Hangaza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172813 , vital:42285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-14
- Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sauti za Malimba I
- Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172928 , vital:42297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-03
- Description: Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the instrument was not as good as it might have been. Nevertheless the music is attractive. The tuning from left to right was:- 448, 372, 320, 244, 208, 168, 122, 244, 284, 336, 372, 416, 488 giving a heptatonic scale of:- 488, 448, 416, 372, 336, 320, 284, 244 vs. These items were recorded at Itetemia, the village of Chief N. S. Fundikira. Wedding tune, with Malimba Likembe.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sauti za Malimba II
- Authors: Ngayamiso Kitunga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172933 , vital:42298 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-04
- Description: Tunes played at weddings. The instrument was new and the notes not well hammered so the tone of the instrument was not as good as it might have been. Nevertheless the music is attractive. The tuning from left to right was:- 448, 372, 320, 244, 208, 168, 122, 244, 284, 336, 372, 416, 488 giving a heptatonic scale of:- 488, 448, 416, 372, 336, 320, 284, 244 vs. These items were recorded at Itetemia, the village of Chief N. S. Fundikira. Wedding tune, with Malimba Likembe.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sengemela
- Authors: Peter Manyanga with Hangaza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172808 , vital:42284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-13
- Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Sinyenye mama
- Authors: Mukhunganilwa with Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172970 , vital:42303 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-07
- Description: "When it became clear that my friend had no drums, I went to her to tell her that we had drums." In this area most of the domestic work in European houses is done by men, familiarly called 'boy'. The woman mentioned in the song became a domestic servant, but, the song says, she repented her decision and preferred to get married and have a home of her own. The connection between this song and the divination of the old woman who sanf it is not clear. Migabo is said to be the name of a group of older people, mostly women, who believe in the power of divination to assist their friends and relatives. Migabo divination songs, with 3 conical laced drums, and 4 gourd rattles (-12.54-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Siwe woronka
- Authors: Serina Mako with Hangaza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Shanga f-tz
- Language: Rundi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172832 , vital:42287 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-16
- Description: It is significant that an Ndau man from the South East of Southern Rhodesian on hearing these songs claimed that the style of singing and the sound of the words were very like his own. It is believed that the five related tribes of Southern Rhodesia, now called Shona a common Hima strain from the north, and may well indicate a link with the legend of the Hima Bachwezi, who, the Rundi and Tutsi maintain, came down with them from the north but did not stay and went on south. The features of the singers showed a strong Hamite strain although clearly semi-Bantu. The fourth song has unusally clever little melody. These people come from the border of Rundi-Urundi (Rwanda) in Ngala district. Topical song, with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Tula bongela heya (We are talking, yes!)
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173088 , vital:42321 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-19
- Description: The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over their mouths. His 'tch-tch' can be clearly heard in his second song. Hiyari ya Moyo dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Tulaongela heya
- Authors: Kasomangila Husen Ishla , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172891 , vital:42292 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-21
- Description: "We must be careful not to spoil our customs." The meaning of all this is obscure. The singers were a professional group of entertainers who go around the villages singing, dancing and drumming. Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Usambo wakasenga
- Authors: Masudi Bini Amam with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173018 , vital:42312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-11
- Description: A song congratulating the Chief Fundikira on his method of stopping thieving in the country. He made wide areas collectively responsible for finding the thief. Thieving had become so bad, both from houses and from standing crops, that it called for drastic treatment. It appears that in the end all persons who had in the past been convicted of theiving were collected together and warned by the chief that every time there was a burglary they would all have to come to his headquaters and account for themselves. The sonstant journeys to the chief which this entailed had its effect and the known thieves volunteered to end the crime wave. This they did effectively and thus Chief Fundikira proved the virtue of the saying "Set a thief to catch a thief." Topical song, with 3 conical drums, 2 played with sticks and 1 with hands.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uswezi I
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-SA f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172996 , vital:42307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-09
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Uswezi II
- Authors: Uwilula with old Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173001 , vital:42309 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-10
- Description: Uswezi is said to be the name of a special religious group which believes in divination and power of magic. They speak a special patois or code language of their cult. Unlike the Migabo they are not considered to be useful to society but have certain influence in the land. The song was recorded in Dar-es-Salaam, but their origin is up country near Tabora in the home district of the Nyamwezi tribe. Uswezi divination song, with gourd rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Uwi, mamsaga makumbulage wagela mnyabo
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173044 , vital:42316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-14
- Description: "You are talking a lot these days my friend, I am sure you will be sad when Nyahinga dies." Nyahinga, they said, is known to be very good singer in Nyamwezi country. Idi Selemani, the leader 'lines' the verses to be sung by the chorus of his friends. The soloist, Idi is a well known and much beloved comedian in his own society of Nyamwezi people living in Dar-es-Salaam and is a joy to watch. His antics and feigned anger are masterly acting. The singer starts the third song with the familiar cry of the 2nd King's African Rifles, "Seken-Seken, K.A.R. Namba wantu. Humorous song with clapping, with clapping and 1 Goblet drum (-14.52101-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Uyo mayo kuwa boyi
- Authors: Mukhunganilwa with Nyamwezi women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Tabora f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172975 , vital:42305 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-08
- Description: "The woman worked as a 'boy'." In this area most of the domestic work in European houses is done by men, familiarly called 'boy'. The woman mentioned in the song became a domestic servant, but, the song says, she repented her decision and preferred to get married and have a home of her own. The connection between this song and the divination of the old woman who sanf it is not clear. Migabo is said to be the name of a group of older people, mostly women, who believe in the power of divination to assist their friends and relatives. Migabo divination songs, with 3 conical laced drums, and 4 gourd rattles (-12.54-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Wa selenge nina kitabu cha mauridi (My beloved, I have a book of prayers)
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar es Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172869 , vital:42290 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR147-19
- Description: The leader of this song, Idi Selemani is a well known homourist and great favourite in the town of Dar es Salaam (1950). Part of his act is pretending to be very angry with his singers. The 'Book of Mauridi' refers, they say, to a section of the Koran containing prayers and instructions. Love song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Yabulele Hiyari ngoma (This Hiyari dance is very foolish)
- Authors: Idi Selemani with Nyamwezi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zinza (African people) , Rundi (African people) , Nyamwezi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam f-tz
- Language: Nyamwezi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173083 , vital:42320 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR148-18
- Description: The leader disapproved of the singing of the women who persisted in putting their black bourkas over their mouths. His 'tch-tch' can be clearly heard in his second song. Hiyari ya Moyo dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950