A lona le utse le ithuta dithuto tseo tsa lona
- Authors: Mapidio Elisabeth Mothulwe and Kgatla women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana , Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165960 , vital:41301 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-05
- Description: Chief: "Are you going on with those lessons of yours, Kgabo (monkey)? show them to me." Children: "Here they are, here they are." Chief: "Show them to me." Children: "Here they are, here they are." This is believed to be a very old song taught in the early days of the church when the Chief would come round asking the children if they were learning their lessons properly. The Dutch Reformed Church was first established in this village in 1864. Morality song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Akasozi bamunanika
- Authors: Zakaria Kasasa, 'Endongo za Baganda'. , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- 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/10962/170484 , vital:41927 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-11
- Description: "The new Lubili (palace of the Kabaka, King of Buganda) is very beautiful. The Kabaka is good and does his duties well. We like him and also his office bearers." This is the gist of the song. Praise song with Endongo 8 string bowl lyre, Ndingidi one string lute, Ntenga conical drum, laced.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Alleluia
- Authors: Guguletu Church Congregation , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Cape Town sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/417254 , vital:71434 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC150-10
- Description: Catholic mass hymn, accompanied by the marimba xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982
Amakhosikazi
- Authors: Zulu church music workshop participants , Molefe, S. C. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Pinetown sa
- Language: isiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/335489 , vital:62009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC325b-03
- Description: Zulu church workshop music accompanied by drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Amakhosikazi acebileyo
- Authors: Music workshop participants , Molefe, S. C. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mariannhill sa
- Language: IsiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/361873 , vital:65255 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC045b-03
- Description: Church choral hymn with singing, accompanied by drumming. Mariannhill Zulu church music workshop.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1978
Burai
- Authors: Teituk Arap Sumiyot , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177730 , vital:42853 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-18
- Description: This song, it was claimed, was composed by the singer when he was an askari in the Kings African Rifles. He urges everyone to cheer up for as soon as the war is over they will be going home again. It is sung in a mixture of Kipsigis and Swahili. He plays an attractive little melody on the Kibungandet as accompaniment. Topical song, with Kibungandet 5 string lyre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Buyani Sangweni (Come to the gate)
- Authors: Elderly men of Chief Njolomole , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Dedza and Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154865 , vital:39787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-07
- Description: The old Nguni fighting song calls out the men of the village to come and fight, having had the good wishes and blessing of the Isangoma, the woman diviner, assuring them of victory like the prophets of Baal in the Bible story "Go up and prosper." "Ayaye Eye! Come to the gate. There goes the diviner. Yes we hear! What kind of a thing is this and how have you heard it from the wife of a man. It is right, it is right, we agree. Regimental song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ea Tuka (It burns)
- Authors: Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men , 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/10962/162139 , vital:40763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-12
- Description: "It is burning! An island is burning! Thaba Bosiu is burning! At the pass there are flames. Thaba Bosiu is burning. You will burn and burst into flames, you witches. You have left the son of God out on the veld. You will have to go back and fetch him. The island is burning!" The song refers to the wild storm which raged around the mountain Thaba Bosiu in 1957 which blew away the roof of a Church and did much damage to homes in the region. Although the song is an initiation song, it is couched in essentially Christian trems. Lengae men's initiation song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Enguli
- Authors: William Semogole (Lyre), Lafairi Morindwa and Yuan Wiswa (lutes), Cristof Sebabi (Drum) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Busito f-ug
- Language: Ganda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171022 , vital:42010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-04
- Description: Performers such as these on the lute and lyres are in great demand in Uganda where they still fulfill an important function as dispensers of news and opinions. Most important matters of public concern will find their way into such songs and thus help crystalise public opinion. The efficient musician and composer is thus an integral part of the social scheme in Uganda. Drinking song with Endongo lyre (Bowl lyre), 2 Ndingidi lutes (bow stringed instrument) (-10.54-), 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-).
- 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
Eya mulanda kankola kami (I like my girl)
- Authors: Group of 6 Lunda men. Leader: Conguboyi Ntambo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Luba (African people) , Southern Lunda (African people) , Folk music , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Mwinilungu f-za
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139319 , vital:37726 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0047-10
- Description: "If a man has a girl he loves and she has gone away, he must sing this song in order to remember her.". Sikinta party dance song with 2 struck bottles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kaiwang'u
- Authors: Ndasimi Sarubare with Arusha men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Maasai (African people) , Songs, Maasai , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Arusha f-tz
- Language: Masai
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174096 , vital:42440 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR154-04
- Description: This a self praise song by boys and girls who are waiting during the Rika period prior to undergoing circumcision. The leader sings in a kind of falsetto voice which is much appreciated by the people but on a recording gives no idea of his manly appearance. The calling for a special response during the course of the recitative is typical of Arusha songs. Rika Intitiation dance song for boys and girls.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kalagala ebwembe
- Authors: Ntamivu za Kabaka , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- 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/10962/170646 , vital:41945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-06
- Description: The tune is based upon a song which says that Kalagala was a chief in Busoga who caught and killed the Kabaka's messengers. The Kabaka sent an army in return to destroy him and his people. Feeling has always run high between the Ganda and Soga peoples, the former living on the west and the latter on the east side of the river Nile where it emerges from Lake Victoria Nyanza. The approximate sizes of the drums were:- Ntamivu, big drum, 25 inches across, 37 inches tall. Naku, medium drum, c. 14 inch head, 19 inches tall. Njongo, small drum, c. 12 inch head, 17 inches tall. Tall laced drum. c. 10 inch head, 39 inches tall. The Naku (-14.22301-) was played with the hands, the others (-14.22303-) were played with beaters. The tall drum stood beside the very large Ntamivu and both were played by one man. The tuning of the xylophone was:- 776, 688, 608, 520, 456, 388, 344, 304, 260, 228, 194, 172 v.s. This gives intervals within the octave (from 344 to 172) of 214, 271, 227, 280 and 208 cents. Two instrumental tunes with loose note xylophone and 5 drums (-14.99-), laced, conical.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kamulo korgochei
- Authors: Chebitet Arap Muina , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
- Language: Kipsigis
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177712 , vital:42850 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-16
- Description: The singer like most Kipsigis, hisses in between verses. He mocks the uncircumcised and people who do not drink milk the pastoral Kipsigis. He urges everyone to play the Ketuba lyre a fit and manly instrument for the circumcised. The tuning of his instrument is as follows:- 184, 162, 138, 120, 240, 212, 184, 162 vs. Arap Towett was the name of the Kipsigis interpreter who translated all his peoples songs for us. Topical song, Ketuba 8 string bowl lyre, laced. (-10.621 x 8-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kariala
- Authors: Johnnie Murithe Wambu and Kibunga Waita , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kikuyu , Kikuyu (African people) , Songs, Kikuyu--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Embu f-ke
- Language: Kikuyu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175616 , vital:42599 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR159-16
- Description: The singer was a cycle repairer by trade, claimed to belong to the Njeudura age grade (his own age at the time being about 22 years in 1952). He, like other Kikuyu who buy these expensive accordians uses it as a noise maker rather than a melodic or harmonic accompaniment. As with the guitar players they rarely change key. This performance was remarkable for the understanding between the singer and his accompanist on the 'iron'. The song was deafening to observers nearby, but apparently enthralling to the performers. Kikuyu musicians appear to be able to tolerate an intensity of sound far beyond the normal, in fact bordering on the threshold of pain in the ears. For the recording the man with his piece of iron and box had to be placed a considerable distance from the microphone. Mamboko dance with accordian and struck iron (-12.16-).
- 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
Kishwaga
- Authors: Kabyoma Mashulamo , 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/10962/172129 , vital:42164 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-02
- Description: "When he fights he does not retreat but threatens all the chiefs.". The trough zithers are like long bowls of wood with the strings stretched along over the hollow of the highest note downwards, the friction of the string caught in slits at either end of the trough is enough to retain the tuning for quite a while before returning is necessary. The structure if the phrasing of the accompaniment can be well observed in this recording. Praise song for chief with Nanga trough zither, 7 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kuklala pafupi (If it was near)
- Authors: Nazaro Ngoma and Chewa men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Pemba, Salima, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/153615 , vital:39487 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR077-10
- Description: "Let me drink and go, father, and make me a witness myself." The cheerful confusion of this drinking song is typical of the country, and the meaning of the words is obsecure. It is suggested that it refers to death and the fact that did they but know what happened after death they would accompany the dead. "If it was only close by where my father went I would go with him, indeed, I would go with him.". Drinking song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Luwangula Mugema
- Authors: Ludovico Mugerwa and Ganda women , 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/10962/171103 , vital:42019 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-12
- Description: "To who do these children belong? To the ruler Luwangula Mugema." Luwangula Mugema is the honorific title for a ruler, they explained. The singer is a young man about 20 years and is already well known in the district for the facility with which he drums and sings this type of song. Topical song, with 1 tall, cylindrical, open and pinned drum, 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mabandla
- Authors: Venancio Mbande and his Chopi timbila xylophone group , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Rattle (Musical instrument) , Drum (Musical instrument) , Europe Holland Hague e-ne
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/96389 , vital:31270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC048b-05
- Description: Traditional dance song accompanied by timbila xylophone rattles and one drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1993