Timba (Timba, the Wren)
- Authors: 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira, Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155930 , vital:39932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-13
- Description: "You mother, Ti-ti-ti- Timba stays in the bushes." The small bird Timba possibly one of the smallest in the district is either a Wren or one of the Tit family from the description given. Appears to be a favourite hero of local stories. Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Tabiya (A woman's name)
- Authors: 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira, Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155939 , vital:39933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-14
- Description: "Tibiya wanted to give me syphilis. Moses, you, I am sure a swallow has passed by." The singer blames the woman Tabiya for his misfortune and warns his friend Moses of following his example. "A bird has passed this way" being a euphemism clearly understood by the men of the district. Self delectative song with board zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Hugh Tracey memorial service
- Authors: (a) Phyllida Wentzel (Speaker) , (b) Irene Frongs (Speaker and Performer) , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: Tracey, Hugh , Memorial service , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Saronde Farm f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113474 , vital:33780 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC131b-09
- Description: (a) Reading of Hugh Tracey's Christmas Card printed for him two months ago and the read verse was an extract from the book 'Faith of an artist' , (b) Irene Frongs former Greek student friend singing an ancient lullaby with guitar accompaniment in tribute to Hugh Tracey of work almost forgotten in Greece, this emanating from Hugh Tracey who encouraged her to do the Greek background and its heritage for her thesis
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1977
Nyele
- Authors: 17 Tonga men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-06-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Zambezi Valley f-za
- Language: Tonga (Zambia)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/234112 , vital:50163 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT459-L80 , Research no. L2F14
- Description: Indigenous folk instrumental with an ensemble of nyele horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-06-24
Nyele/Horns
- Authors: 17 Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138490 , vital:37642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-14
- Description: An experimental recording of the Nyele horns, to demonstrate their tuning, the order of their appearance and general scheme of melody. They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed upon various ceremonial occasions such as funerals and large gatherings. They vary in size from about 5" to 18" long and are taken from a variety of antelope. Names of Nyele pipes (from smallest to largest) 1. Kampeko. 2. Simulya sikiri. 3. Senseku. 4. Jungainga. 5. Pindakati. 6. Muwere. 7. Siamupa. 8. Mpako. 9. Fulwa. 10. Saina. 11. Mulundu chigabana. 12. Gapalikwa. 13. Fumbira momba. 14. Tiabutiabu. 15. Tandamubbgwa. 16. Tandawanyoko. 17. Tukirauso. Horn ensemble with set of 17 Nyele antelope end-blown horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Atu pandula Tate Nampongo
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Simon, Kornelia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-02
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279026 , vital:55456 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-07
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-02
Kalunga Tate otwe ku pandura, iyaloo
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Justianus, Rosvindis , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-02
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279008 , vital:55454 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-06
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-02
Ohapu ha Karunga ohap'ombwanawa
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Simon, Kornelia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-03
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279284 , vital:55484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-24
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-03
Tusiroshenda tu pa ombiri
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Nambundunge, Protasius , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-03
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279360 , vital:55492 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-27
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-03
Farewell Song
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Group Composition , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-05
- Subjects: Folk music , Church music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279937 , vital:55556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD060-06
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-05
Karunga otshoorameno tshetu
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Nambundunge, Protasius , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-03
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279148 , vital:55469 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-15
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-03
Onditela
- Authors: 2 Men and 3 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Batlomeus, Cecilia , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-04
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/279406 , vital:55497 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-31
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-04
Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138207 , vital:37609 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-08
- Description: The bracelet on the wristof one of the women pounding can be clearly heard. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138216 , vital:37610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-09
- Description: The song was done by small girls of about 12 years old. One did the singing, the other the 'shushing'. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Indakurira shua (I cry for my friend (duet))
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138198 , vital:37608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-07
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Indilimbo y' Ingeruzabahizi (The song of the 'Ingeruzabahizi)
- Authors: 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136902 , vital:37439 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-12
- Description: The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the cooper mines of the Katanga Province in the south of the Congo Belge. The Union Miniere asked the Mwami of Ruanda for strong men for this work and when they arrived at the airfield they asked their leader which way they would travel. "It was not by land nor by water, he replied, but by air they would go." So they were taken from Usumbura to Elisabethville by air. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Impunguza matwi (Open your ears)
- Authors: 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136912 , vital:37440 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-13
- Description: "Cyo tya amatwi wumve abakuvuba, Balirimba akamaro ubafitiye, Si urulinu ruvuga ubasa, Ni umutima ushima ubikwiye, Turakakwanga Mubyeyi." Morality song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tate Kalunga ye-ye
- Authors: 3 Men and 6 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Kapweja, Johanna , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-02
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/278463 , vital:55391 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-04
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-02
Mwene Jesus Haleluya
- Authors: 3 Men and 6 Ladies , Ovambo Folk , Isak, Alexander , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1982-11-02
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Oshikuku f-sx
- Language: Kuanyama, Kwanyama
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/278476 , vital:55393 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDD058-05
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1982-11-02