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Dance des pygmees batwa

Pygmees manbuti

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

We mbwa yandi nshindikishe

Cabo Obela

Kiriri

Nipande mpala baokeli

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

Talatany chebwomut

Zamapembe sesiyandinda

Kiriri

Mai-o-da

Gbalabalatauw iye hihe

Title not specified

Sigowuli tunes

Sigowilo tunes

Msitso Wokata of the Ngodo of Regulo Canda of 1955

  • Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Canda , Mapasi, Tomio , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1955-10-06
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala District f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/226251 , vital:49312 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT366-J15 , Research no. H1O9
  • Description: Orchestral dance song for Msitso Wokata, the first orchestral introduction of the Ngodo of Regulo Canda of 1955.
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  • Date Issued: 1955-10-06

Lithoko tsa Morena Neo Sibi

A Namageli

Rungano rgwe nerera (Story of the orphan girl in the cave)

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