Ngodyongodyo
- Authors: Boys of Busoga College , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Jinja f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171176 , vital:42027 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-03
- Description: "Oh, Ngodyongodyo, where is Kibate? what is this? Those are hornets. The hornets are stinging me. Let them sting you, please ask them to leave me; Hornets don't leave him." School song.
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- Date Issued: 1952
Naniyamwenda
- Authors: Nekemiya Nanywamu and Kasani Byansi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171217 , vital:42032 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-07
- Description: A song about the dreadful results of not obeying your parents. A badly brought up disobedient girl is bound to be unhappily married and when her husband beats her for not putting salt in the vegetables, for example, she would get no sympathy from her parents. Morality song, with Ntongoli 8 string lyre and Ndingidi 1 string lute (-10-54-).
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- Date Issued: 1952
Obuwala bwe Nawandende (Girls of Nawanende)
- Authors: Kyotalye Wakabi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Jinja f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171315 , vital:42046 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-17
- Description: This xylophone was played by 4 players. Kyolalye on one side as 'mixer' and three on the other. Xylophone instrumental tune, 16 note Mbaire xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nkende yamuyayu
- Authors: Mulobo Maswa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugembe f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171588 , vital:42096 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-11
- Description: "The waist of the wild cat." During this tune the ols men sitting around began to sing the melody and clap. Flute tune, Ndele flute and 2 drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Okwidhibana
- Authors: Nuzale Kyemiere and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Jinja f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171383 , vital:42054 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-02
- Description: A man wanted a certain woman as a wife and to this end made as much money as he could. As long as he had money she liked him but when he had spent it all she ran away. Topical sogn, with 7 Budongo Likembe and 1 Nsaasi rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Omusango gwenyama tegugwa
- Authors: Temusewo Mukasa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170950 , vital:41988 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-12
- Description: This meat affair goes on and on. Nakatanga took the singer's meat and ate it. Then Nakatanga went off to the war and the singer said "That is right, I hope you get killed". This brilliant singer is well known in Buganda. The clarity both of his singing and playing on the harp is delightful. Song with horizontal, arched, 8 stringed harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Osenga Mwami Tagayere
- Authors: Temusewo Mukasa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170968 , vital:41990 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-14
- Description: "A man who receives a plot of land from the Chief must not be lazy for he must produce crops in return for what he has received. We have no salt here, but during Mutera's reign salt was introduced, so the people had salt with their meat, which pleased them. He who kills snakes will probably meet a cobra one day." Historical song with horizontal, arched 8 string harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kyalema Nnakato (His wife's name)
- Authors: Evaristo N. Muyinda and Yakobo Ssewakirya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Masaka f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171076 , vital:42016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-09
- Description: The singer praises the people of the Mamba clan, for surely this is the clan where he found his wife "I do not care for the Nkima (monkey) clan, nor for the Ngabi (antelope) clan but only for the Mamba (lung fish) clan from which she came." The sharp tone of these Endongo lyres is caused by the fact that they have no bridge and the vibrating strings buzz against the membrane of the body. Love song, with 2 Endongo 8 strings lyres.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Ensega mwoyo
- Authors: Kalaja and Sepiriamo Bemba , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugembe f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171656 , vital:42106 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-18
- Description: Mugabe drum, tall goblet, pinned, open, with water lizard skin membrane. Ngoma drum, closed, laced. A good example of hand technique on two well tuned drums. (Copied from a disc). Drumming dance, Mugabe drum (-14.51201-). Ngoma drum (-14.22301-) and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Batwala bafe (They take our husband)
- Authors: Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170858 , vital:41970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-02
- Description: This tune was composed and played when the Kabaka Mwanga II was exiled. The longest note of the xylophone was 35 inches and the shortest 24 inches, the average widith of each note was 3 and a half in. A servant of the chief placed himself at one end of the instrument to put his hand in under the notes and slide back into place any note which began to slip. The scale was:- 464, 396. 360, 308, 264, 232 v.s. 464 and 232 representing the third and eighth notes on this instrument. All the others in corresponding octaves. Instrumental tune, with 1 Madinda xylophone, 12 loose notes, supported on banana stalks.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Okwagala omulungi kwesengereza
- Authors: Temusewo Mukasa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170977 , vital:41991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-15
- Description: "To love the Kabaka brings trouble. You are handed over to the executioner who binds your arms. When the Kabaka goes to Nakawa, Nabulagawa, he hands people over to the executioner." To be friendly with the powerful has its dangers. Songs such as this give a vivid insight into the conditions around the chief's courts in the old days. Historical song with horizontal, arched 8 string harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kawulu
- Authors: Nekemeya Nenywamu , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kyemere f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171036 , vital:42012 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-06
- Description: Kawulu, a Ganda man, was a cannibal. One day he met a woman, he caught her, killed her and ate her. The Hima people reported the matter to the police and Kawulu was taken to prison. After he was caught the Ganda denied everything saying they were never cannibals, but rather it was the Soga people who had done this dreadgul thing. So the case was heard in Jinja instead of in Kampala, but eventually he confessed and was hanged. So it was a Ganda and not a Soga who was proved to be a cannibal. Topical song with Ntongoli bowl lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Abalogo balnanira Daudi
- Authors: Kuruseni with Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Jinja f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171419 , vital:42058 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR141-05
- Description: Legends in this part of Africa, around the great lakes are often told to a rippling instrumental accompaniment especially to the trough zither. This song refers to the death of a certain Saza chief called Daudi. Rumour has it that after he was buried certain men (said to be socerers) went to the grave to dig him up. But just at the moment it began to rain and they diagreed so violently that they failed in their purpose and went away. The cries in the background from one of the spectators, they said, had nothing to do with the legend. The narrator unfortunately had a very husky voice. Legend in song, with 6 Budongo Likembe and 1 flat Nsaasi tin rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Munya, gwerira munyale
- Authors: Evaristo N. Muyinda and Yakobo Ssewakirya , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Ssaza Kyagwe f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171063 , vital:42015 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-08
- Description: This is a song about a Gekko lizard. The lizard, he says, is a harmless animal, it does not eat food like other animals. All it eats is soot, nor does it despise anybody, so why kill it. If one of these Gekko lizards is killed seven others would take the case to the chief and they will win their case. So do not kill the gekko lizard. The two lyres were tuned an ocatve apart and were said to be exactly in tune with lyre played by Bulasiyo. viz:- 286, 336, 194, 168, 144, 194, 248 vs. Topical song, with 2 Endongo lyres (-10.625 x 8-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mulimo omutanda
- Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bugembe f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171624 , vital:42101 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-15
- Description: The owner of the house. Tune with Magwala horns, Kigoma, large conical laced drum (-14.2-) and small conical drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Akantaiba No. II
- Authors: Mulobo Maswa and Soga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamodi f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171566 , vital:42092 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR142-09
- Description: These two versions of the same flute were recorded by Mulobo Maswa in September 1950 and again in June 1952. He has been the offical flute player to the royal house of the Kyabazinga of the Soga people, ever since he was a young boy. The first version was recorded after midnight under a starlit sky, and in the second version he was accompanied by two old friends on the drum. The audience sitting around him had to join in as well. The tune "Akantaiba" is taken from a song said to be a century or two old which says, "If your wife is rude to you, she loves another. If your servant is rude to you, he wants to leave you." Flute tune with Ndele, end blown, notched and 4 holed flute (14.2-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Bu
- Authors: Muliama Namale and Ganda people , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170896 , vital:41980 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-06
- Description: In 1949 there was a disturbance in Uganda caused by a group of people known as "Bu". In the singers opinion they should not have been arrested as they caused no damage and carried no weapons. She was at the the coronation of the Kabaka (king) and saw the preliminary ceremonies, she sings. The "Bu" it was suggested was shrot for 'Buganda' and the Ganda people.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mukama Gavumba yaira
- Authors: Nekemiya Nanywamu and Kasani Byansi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171225 , vital:42033 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-08
- Description: There was once a well known theif in this district called Gavumba. He is held up as a bad example which should not be copied. Morality song, with Ntongoli 8 string lyre and Ndingidi 1 string lute (-10-54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Webale Kujja
- Authors: Temusewo Mukasa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170941 , vital:41987 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-11
- Description: A song of welcome to a friend. He also warns him not to drink "Enguli" or Nubian gin, which is distilled from 'Jagri', unrefined sugar still in the coagulated stage. 'Jagri' is the Hindustani word for this and the customers for this commodity at Indian stores have taken over the foreign word. This brilliant singer is well known in Buganda. The clarity both of his singing and playing on the harp is delightful. Song with horizontal, arched, 8 stringed harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Woba newali ogya nalyo
- Authors: Nawandala Social Club , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Soga (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Iganga f-ug
- Language: Soga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171250 , vital:42037 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR140-11
- Description: "Some women do not like other women. They are only fit to marry lepers Exhortations, with 1 laced, conical drum played with sticks, and clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952