Obundiba ntaizire
- Aloni Kiiza and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Aloni Kiiza and Nyoro men , 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/10962/169602 , vital:41775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-02
- Description: "If I do not come in time, you will know there is something wrong with me.". "We were pleased with your words" they reply in chorus. The answer to an invitation to a drinking party. This song bears a remarkable similarity to the songs of the Karanga of Southern Rhodesia. It is also interesting to note that two Chopi men of Southern Mozambique when hearing this song, separately and several years apart, both claimed that the song was an old song of their own people. One man Gilbert Mahlatini stated it was a curative and other, Calisto Zavala, an initiation song. Drinking song, with Ebinyege leg rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Aloni Kiiza and Nyoro men , 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/10962/169602 , vital:41775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-02
- Description: "If I do not come in time, you will know there is something wrong with me.". "We were pleased with your words" they reply in chorus. The answer to an invitation to a drinking party. This song bears a remarkable similarity to the songs of the Karanga of Southern Rhodesia. It is also interesting to note that two Chopi men of Southern Mozambique when hearing this song, separately and several years apart, both claimed that the song was an old song of their own people. One man Gilbert Mahlatini stated it was a curative and other, Calisto Zavala, an initiation song. Drinking song, with Ebinyege leg rattles and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Dikitari Tiyakuyia
- Felisiano Karungula with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Felisiano Karungula with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172622 , vital:42230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-14
- Description: "The hospitals is a good place and should not be burnt down. Why, I myself was once treated there." A sentiment which could be echoed through many regions of Africa where rioters are notorious for burning down hospitals, clinics and schools. Ruyaigo dance song for boys and girls, with conical laced drum, 1 gourd rattle (-12.54-) and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Felisiano Karungula with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172622 , vital:42230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-14
- Description: "The hospitals is a good place and should not be burnt down. Why, I myself was once treated there." A sentiment which could be echoed through many regions of Africa where rioters are notorious for burning down hospitals, clinics and schools. Ruyaigo dance song for boys and girls, with conical laced drum, 1 gourd rattle (-12.54-) and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Waitu-waitu
- Mwendera Kaijage with Haya women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mwendera Kaijage with Haya women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172280 , vital:42183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-07
- Description: "Father, creator of our people, you were born chief and we ask you while ruling over us to settle for us our troubles and reward us with cattle when we have done well." Praise song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mwendera Kaijage with Haya women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172280 , vital:42183 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-07
- Description: "Father, creator of our people, you were born chief and we ask you while ruling over us to settle for us our troubles and reward us with cattle when we have done well." Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- 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
- 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Aramutanga
- Bomera and Tibuhoire, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Bomera and Tibuhoire , 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/10962/169798 , vital:41825 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-05
- 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 two Nsegu end blown vertical, open flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Bomera and Tibuhoire , 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/10962/169798 , vital:41825 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-05
- 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 two Nsegu end blown vertical, open flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Musingasingu yakora egali II
- Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169843 , vital:41830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-10
- Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
- Language: Nyoro
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169843 , vital:41830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-10
- Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Nimpwere bana bange kirika mabondo tirekuramya Gavana
- Kanyogote Mdende with Zinza men and women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kanyogote Mdende with Zinza men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Zinza (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyabubungo f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya , Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172520 , vital:42214 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-05
- Description: "Help me to greet the Governor, children." This song is usually sung to greet their own chiefs, but was adapted for the purpose by including special words in honour of the 'Gavana', the Governor of Tanganyika when he visited their district. The favourite 2 against 3 rhythm is used. Greeting song for Chiefs, with conical laced drum.
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- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Kanyogote Mdende with Zinza men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Zinza (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyabubungo f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya , Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172520 , vital:42214 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-05
- Description: "Help me to greet the Governor, children." This song is usually sung to greet their own chiefs, but was adapted for the purpose by including special words in honour of the 'Gavana', the Governor of Tanganyika when he visited their district. The favourite 2 against 3 rhythm is used. Greeting song for Chiefs, with conical laced drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kahwahwe
- Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170038 , vital:41851 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-09
- Description: The people of this district who call themselves Riguru came to the area as refugees from the Christian civil wars of the 1890's in Buganda. Ekizina dance song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170038 , vital:41851 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-09
- Description: The people of this district who call themselves Riguru came to the area as refugees from the Christian civil wars of the 1890's in Buganda. Ekizina dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ndwaile
- Mpabuka Ibanda with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mpabuka Ibanda with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171779 , vital:42124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-08
- Description: Sung when the party of women take the bride to her husband. "I am sick, I have bad luck because I am always sick." The connection between the words of the song and the event is not clear. The wailing chorus of the women is typical of Haya music.. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mpabuka Ibanda with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171779 , vital:42124 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-08
- Description: Sung when the party of women take the bride to her husband. "I am sick, I have bad luck because I am always sick." The connection between the words of the song and the event is not clear. The wailing chorus of the women is typical of Haya music.. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ekyoma kyabora
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169629 , vital:41779 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-05
- Description: Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169629 , vital:41779 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-05
- Description: Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ilemere abagorra nsonga ilemere
- Yohana Byabachwezi with Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Yohana Byabachwezi with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170426 , vital:41921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-07
- Description: Topical songs of this nature are sung at parties and weddings, with local subject matter such as their cattle and their crops. The style of singing would appear to be Hima rather than Bantu. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Yohana Byabachwezi with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170426 , vital:41921 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-07
- Description: Topical songs of this nature are sung at parties and weddings, with local subject matter such as their cattle and their crops. The style of singing would appear to be Hima rather than Bantu. Topical song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mugasha 3
- Habib Bin Seliman, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172346 , vital:42191 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-14
- Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172346 , vital:42191 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-14
- Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kigara kyamsiriba
- Authors: Babyesiga , 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/10962/169664 , vital:41784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-07
- Description: "There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No one believes him." The singer yodells in typically African fashion. The tuning of this harp is as follows:- 336, 304, 252, 200, 168, (152), (126) vs, strings 7 and 8 were slightly out of tune, and should be 152 and 126. Topical song with Ekidongo eitht string horizontal harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Babyesiga , 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/10962/169664 , vital:41784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-07
- Description: "There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No one believes him." The singer yodells in typically African fashion. The tuning of this harp is as follows:- 336, 304, 252, 200, 168, (152), (126) vs, strings 7 and 8 were slightly out of tune, and should be 152 and 126. Topical song with Ekidongo eitht string horizontal harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Igumira obuyatabara Ruanda
- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
- Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170083 , vital:41855 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-13
- Description: Igumira was a local chief who used to go over into Rwanda and raid tribes there, the Tutsi and the Hutu. The song is now used for dancing the Ekitagururo dance in which mena nd women do a simple rhythmic shuffle with rattles attached to their calves. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ekyoma kyabora
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169646 , vital:41778 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-05
- Description: Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169646 , vital:41778 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-05
- Description: Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton ginnery of Kyabora which is run by an Indian. 'The machine Kyaboro' he call it. The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ekyeshansha
- Authors: Katakura , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamakuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170065 , vital:41854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-12
- Description: This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm of the J is held onto the left shoulder and the base of the bow stands on a resonator; a petrol tin, held there by the left hand. There are 3 strings two across the lower end of the bow which are plucked by the left thumb. The third (plucked with a stick plectrum) is stretched across the bow from the lower tip to near the upper hip. It is stoped by the player's chin, in one, two or three positions. A very simple accompaniment only is possible. The tuning of these strings was as follows; 364, 292, 198. 1. 364 vs. the shortest strng across the head of the bow. 2. 292 is the second string above it. 3. 198 is the stopped string. 1 is played by plucking with the left thumb. 2 is played by both the left thumb and by the plectrum in the right hand. 3 is played by the plectrum only. The song recalls the fighting with a certain tribe to the south which is now part of Tanganyika territory, and praises the old army. In this part of Africa and especially around the great lakes several reciters of legend use relatively unmusical instruments with which to provide a thrumming background to their declamations. Historic recitation with musical bow of three strings. Ekiningo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Katakura , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamakuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170065 , vital:41854 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-12
- Description: This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm of the J is held onto the left shoulder and the base of the bow stands on a resonator; a petrol tin, held there by the left hand. There are 3 strings two across the lower end of the bow which are plucked by the left thumb. The third (plucked with a stick plectrum) is stretched across the bow from the lower tip to near the upper hip. It is stoped by the player's chin, in one, two or three positions. A very simple accompaniment only is possible. The tuning of these strings was as follows; 364, 292, 198. 1. 364 vs. the shortest strng across the head of the bow. 2. 292 is the second string above it. 3. 198 is the stopped string. 1 is played by plucking with the left thumb. 2 is played by both the left thumb and by the plectrum in the right hand. 3 is played by the plectrum only. The song recalls the fighting with a certain tribe to the south which is now part of Tanganyika territory, and praises the old army. In this part of Africa and especially around the great lakes several reciters of legend use relatively unmusical instruments with which to provide a thrumming background to their declamations. Historic recitation with musical bow of three strings. Ekiningo.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mkazi wa musaiza talya mugobe
- Tigalyoma Tiwesobwa with Zinza women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tigalyoma Tiwesobwa with Zinza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Zinza (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyabubungo f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya , Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172538 , vital:42216 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-07
- Description: "The wife of Mr. so-and-so, does not eat dry meat." During the songs the women clapped their hands onto their knees rhythmically, clapping them together at the top of the swing. Wedding song, with conical, laced, drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Tigalyoma Tiwesobwa with Zinza women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Zinza (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Nyabubungo f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya , Zinza
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172538 , vital:42216 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-07
- Description: "The wife of Mr. so-and-so, does not eat dry meat." During the songs the women clapped their hands onto their knees rhythmically, clapping them together at the top of the swing. Wedding song, with conical, laced, drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mpyaile entongo
- Atanasi Gamanya with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Atanasi Gamanya with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172595 , vital:42225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-11
- Description: "I have planted my seeds and if I reap six of them it will be enough." "Should anyone steal my crops I would be very hungry." This item was recorded by a group of Haya men who were working on the diamond mines near Shinyanga at Mwadui. Like several other Haya items it gives the impression of having strong affinity if not its origin with Arab music. Ngoma yawakazi dance song for women, with metal cylindrical laced drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Atanasi Gamanya with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172595 , vital:42225 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-11
- Description: "I have planted my seeds and if I reap six of them it will be enough." "Should anyone steal my crops I would be very hungry." This item was recorded by a group of Haya men who were working on the diamond mines near Shinyanga at Mwadui. Like several other Haya items it gives the impression of having strong affinity if not its origin with Arab music. Ngoma yawakazi dance song for women, with metal cylindrical laced drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ekizina ky’abaishiri
- Ferezi Bazamu and Nkole girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ferezi Bazamu and Nkole girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169965 , vital:41843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-02
- Description: Song sung as a farewell to a bride by her girl friends when she is about to go to her new home. Wedding song with conical drum, laced, single and four raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Ferezi Bazamu and Nkole girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169965 , vital:41843 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-02
- Description: Song sung as a farewell to a bride by her girl friends when she is about to go to her new home. Wedding song with conical drum, laced, single and four raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mugasha 4
- Habib Bin Seliman, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172364 , vital:42193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-15
- Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172364 , vital:42193 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-15
- Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950