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Ndaramba miranda kumudzi kwangu (I will have more trouble in my home)

- A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women, Hugh Tracey

Ndarira (I cry)

- Dawusi Chirongo, Hugh Tracey

Ndasaya may angu (I have lost my mother)

- A. A. C. Lubino and 2 Nyungwe women, Hugh Tracey

Ndayamba dale (I start, darling)

- Young girls and 5 drummers, Hugh Tracey

Ndaza apa ndaima (I am here waiting)

- Bifi Phiri and friend, Hugh Tracey

Ndicha Girita pano mufare mufare (I am leaving here, stay happily)

- Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera, Hugh Tracey

Ndikati ubwera ulendo waimba wisulo kunjila

- Tweleve elderly women and two drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tweleve elderly women and two drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Mpatsa, Port Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155766 , vital:39914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR087-11
  • Description: "I supposed you would come back from your journey singing as you came along the path. But you have gone for good." A woman is being justifyably caustic about her husband who is going away on a journey presumably leaving her to do all the work. Pairs of singers sing alternately, the second pair repeating what the first initiated. Chitsukulumwe dance with rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ndimgayo Timba (The bird Timba)

- Agnes Maknwalo, Hugh Tracey

Ndinali naye m'ngono wanga (I had a young brother)

- Robson Cibwe and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

Ndingindi (The well dressed man)

- Elizabeth Banda and Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Ndodya mutombo

- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndorowe ngoma (I play music)

- Pineas Hungwe, Hugh Tracey

Ndozofa (I shall die)

- Pineas Hungwe, Hugh Tracey

Ndudzi nendudzi

- Stephen R. Gumbo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Stephen R. Gumbo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154211 , vital:39621 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR080-08
  • Description: A certain Nyasa went to see his his Karanga parents-in-law and they all began drinking. Owing to difficulties which arose over the mispronounciation of certain words, he decided to distract them by saying he knew od a piece where there was even better beer. His mother-in-law then said she would accompany him there. Much later on when they had both drunk a great deal they both left the mother-in-law saying, "Don't leave me behind or I shall be murdered by 'tsotsis' (fuffians) and when my dead body is found, you will be accused of killing me." Humorous song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ng'ombe zaya (His cattle)

- Kampala Mware and Chewa boys, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kampala Mware and Chewa boys , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Kotakota f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159989 , vital:40364 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-02
  • Description: The listeners answer 'Tilitonsi' "We are together". There was once a man who had some cows and he went to herd them out in the bush. When he felt hungry he went to a certain tree to cook a few grains of maize to eat. When he had eaten all he had cooked, he looked up and found his cows had disappeared. He called his son and told him the cattle had gone. "Bring me an arrow" he said, and then he sang this magic song "Ng'ombe dzaya" so they were able to find the animals again and took them back to the village. Nthano story song.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nga, nga, nga, nda reka (Lift and drop)

- Bauleni Zhuau, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Bauleni Zhuau , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chipwembwe, Fort Herald f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155829 , vital:39921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-03
  • Description: The drum leader was not satisfied with the pitch of the drums and stopped playing to adjust the amount of wax on two of the drums and then started again while the girls continued to sing. The wax is made of caster oil beans pounded up, it sticks onto the drum heads in spite of the continual beating of sticks and hands. The addition of wax or paste lowers the note of the drum and the removal of quite a small amount of wax raises the note. Thus the drums can be tunned with reasonable accuracy. The players brought more paste on the drum heads than they needed, no doubt because a certain amount is lost in playing and then tuned by removing a certain amount on each head with a curved piece of tin shaped like a spoon. Note the stress upon the final syllable of Reka NdaReka. Likhuba dance with 9 tuned drums.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngibanjwe sigebengu sentombazana swazini (I made love to a girl who already had a lover)

- Group of 10 young Swazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Group of 10 young Swazi men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Pigg's Peak f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153064 , vital:39378 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR073-15
  • Description: "I made love to a girl who already had a lover. The case was brought against me by the policeman of the 'Ngonine' Estates. I would be a free man were it not for the Ngonine Estates." Ndlamu dance.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Nginyengwe luyengwe babe (I have been decived by a deceiver)

- Lompahlo Dlamini (women of about 28 years), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Lompahlo Dlamini (women of about 28 years) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk songs, Swazi , Folk music , Africa Eswatini Emkhuzweni, Northern District f-sq
  • Language: Swati
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152807 , vital:39344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR072-09
  • Description: "Intombi izonile kaNgwane. Ubongiyehla babe Ngubani lontshitshinpondo, Ayinihe emashangane?" "A girl has spoiled herself in KaNgwane. Father, you should leave me alone. You, who changes a pound note and gives it to the Shangaans?" In this song the performer creates a buzzing effect by holding the beater grass against the vibrating string of the bow. It is an interesting melody. Topical song with Makweyana musical bow, stressed and gourd resonated.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ngitowucelinkhoto nahojaba (I have come to ask for admission from thr groom's mother)

- Lomadlozi Dlamini and group of Swazi women, Hugh Tracey

Ngodo of Regulo Banguza

- Komukomu, Performer not specified, Komukomu Wa Simbe, Tracey, Hugh

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