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
Kiriri
- Authors: Wangari wa Gibson with kikuyu girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kikuyu , Kikuyu (African people) , Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Forest Hall f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175549 , vital:42592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR159-11
- Description: "Anyone who dares to stop the dance should be denied the abilty to bear children. Simple school dance song. European insipiration is almost certain in the first item, possibly taken from "There was a farmer who had two sons." Dance song for boys and girls.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Sigowuli tunes
- Authors: Three chopi girls (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Chopi , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133343 , vital:36966 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-11
- Description: Self-delectative tune by three girls on two ocarinas
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Rungano rgwe nerera (Story of the orphan girl in the cave)
- Authors: Rufashas and friend , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Takawarasha, Chibi District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Shona, Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154577 , vital:39750 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-10
- Description: A variation of a story collected at Gutu and eleswhere. It tells of a girl who was locked in a cave and whose brother brought her food every day. He used to sing a special song by which she recognised him and opened the door. But a hyena had been hiding nearby and observed all this. And one day he impersonated the brother and sang his song. The girl opened the door and the hyena ate her up. Stroy with song.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Chimwanikoda
- Authors: Munthuanengwi Muhlanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180348 , vital:43355 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-04
- Description: An unusual musical bow on account of the use of a bridge ith which to divide the string into two segements and convey the sound direct to a small drum like resonator attached to the bow near its center. This simple little bow is played with an ox-tail bow near the point of stress. A thin stick is inserted between the gourd's membrane and the wire, conveying the sound down to the resonator and also dividing the single string into two unequal segments. The player stops the shorter of the two, thus producing the fundamental note on the longer segment and two or three notes on the shorter. It is perhaps strange to think that this product could prove entertaining and satisfactory to the performer. Self delectative song, with Chimwanikoda bowed musical bow, braced.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Khajoane Ntseke (The Crow)
- Authors: Malebaka Moroke , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161747 , vital:40659 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-01
- Description: "Crow, go and call my uncle. Uncle should come and see the work that is being done." Grinding son.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi
- Authors: Group of Sotho men and Khotso Lepheana (Performers) , Composer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--South Africa , Folk songs, Sotho , Praise , Africa South Africa Matatiele f-za
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134241 , vital:37104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR018-10
- Description: The praises spoken in the intervals of the song are in honour of the fighters of the tribe. (Knotso means 'Peace'.) The hero of this praise verse is the Chief of the Sibi location, a region north of Matatiele lying along the Qacha's Nek Road, adjoining the eastern border of Basutoland.
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- Date Issued: 1957
A Namageli
- Authors: Faresi Gama and Nadiesi Namulinde , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Masula, Lilongwe, Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153482 , vital:39457 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR076-19
- Description: A Namageli, the woman, waas called to Chief Masura's court and while in the court she gave to her child. She had been asked to expalin how she had obtained her child in the absence of her husband in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The dramatic appearance of the child at the moment of investigations was a cause of merriment to all concerned. Pounding song with pestle and mortar.
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- Date Issued: 1958