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Daula mabanja nangu Mpezeni

  • Authors: Blaisoni Jere , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185507 , vital:44392 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-14
  • Description: Mpezeni was a famous chief of the Ngoni in the Fort Jameson district of Northern Rhodesia about 200 miles south of this village. He was defeated by the British. "The conqueror of all the chiefs is Mpezeni. My child Dangala, let us go." The tuning:- 280, 260, 232, 176, 156, 140 vs. The tuning of this Bango is of doubtful accuracy. Self delecatative song with Bango board zither, (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kumaji kumailo-mailo

Wezulu walila

Amama nkhawawone

  • Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185263 , vital:44359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-05
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Azungu musinjilo

  • Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185276 , vital:44360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-06
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wanganya welaninge

Kaliya-liya, ndinde kaliya

Walila winu mung'omba

Mwana winu wancenekela

Diyele wane

  • Authors: Japhiti Zimba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185114 , vital:44329 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-08
  • Description: The Kalimba, they say, is a comparatively new to this district and people. They have recently begun to learn it from the Nsenga at Fort Jameson where this player had gone to work on a Europen farm there in 1922. "You always call me 'dear' with your mouth, but what kind of 'dear' is this if you do not let me sleep with you?" This is a pleasnt little melody set against an appropriate accompaniment. The player's old voice does not do his own melody credit, as so often happens among folk singers, and it should be performed by a younger person to bring out its virtue. Love song with Kalimba Mbira (nine notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Uyezwa ngendumo macaba ngendumo

  • Authors: Joel M , Ngoni men , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Nsenga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184482 , vital:44227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-10
  • Description: This somg is taken from an old Ngoni regimental song which would, in the old days, have been used only as a song after hunting. This style of singing is indigenous to Zululand rather than Nyasaland and was brought up north in the early nineteenth century migration of the two distinct groups, the Jiri and the Gomani. The Jiri came up through the highlands of what is now Southern Rhodesia and sacked the settlement at Zimbabwe on their way. In one or two words the change over from the Zulu "L" to the Nyasa "R" can be discerned. After hunting and killing a lion the party will dance the Mgubo before the chief and earn an ox in reward. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Silandele Unjenje oyana

Walowela mawa

  • Authors: Kachali, Zakaliya , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-26
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211433 , vital:47614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT177-D35.1 , Research no. D2B8
  • Description: Humorous song with Bango Board Zither accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1950-05-26

Kunazareti - mwanditengela mwana umozi

Iyelele

Zamapembe sesiyandinda

Eda iwe, zomela

  • Authors: Mwenela Kaunda , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185159 , vital:44334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-13
  • Description: Pounding with three pestles to one mortar. Six or seven girls stand around the mortar and take turns tp pound. One girl on each repeat of the tune, throws her pestle up into the air to the next on her left, this girl catches it in mid air and first pounds lightly on the edge of the mortar (the sound of which can be clearly heard) and then in the mortar until it is her turn to throw it on to her neighbor who repeats the process. Since the pestles weigh about 20 lbs. each, this game at the mortar takes considerable skill and strength. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

A pongozi mbanonoko

A buthu wa cimbira

Zelina

  • Authors: Nezala Shongs , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185104 , vital:44328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-07
  • Description: "Zelina I have touched your girdle of beads." This singer is a Ngoni singing in Tumbuka, the language of the people amongst whom he lives. To touch the bead girdle is an indication of success in love.Love song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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