Mpundu
- Authors: Batwa women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217664 , vital:48309 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT309-F81 , Research no. F3V2
- Description: Indigenous folk song of praise for the chief, with singing and handclapping .
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-15
Nyirandabyiguze
- Authors: Twa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148933 , vital:38787 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-05
- Description: Once in a time of famine, a woman went to look for food. Her search proving fruitless, in order to keep herself, she became a courtesan (she sold herself for food). The song is sung by small Batwa (pigmoid women) who sing in a style typical of their tribe with falling melodies and with clever hand clapping accompaniment. Party song with hand clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Wirigiringwe
- Authors: Mihambari and Rwanda girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Gihini f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148764 , vital:38771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-11
- Description: "Mama, don't be afraid of a leopard you see by day, it's a kind leopard, not like the ones you see by night, and you must try to be like it, i.e. you must try to be as beautiful as the leopard, but without scratching." Wedding song with hand clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Bamurangahe
- Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Chief Bininga's home f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214839 , vital:47993 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. MOA7 SIDE B NO.4
- Description: Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera horns and drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-15
Aku dewile
- Authors: Zande men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214861 , vital:47995 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. MOA7 SIDE B NO.5
- Description: Zande dance song played on Kponingbo xylophone, with banana stalks and hand bells.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-15
Igiterane
- Authors: Batwa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148903 , vital:38784 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-04
- Description: A song to praise chiefs and notables. The chiefs in this country are still all Hamitic Tutsi, whose height (generally between 6 and 7 foot tall) is in great contrast to the short pigmoid Twa whom they have ruled for over five centuries. The modality of this song and the complex pattern of the clapping are both notable. Praise song for chief with handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Uruchantege
- Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183625 , vital:44016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-07
- Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Lama
- Authors: Ndengabaganizi, Leonard , Leonard Ndengabaganizi and group of singers , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217625 , vital:48304 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT309-F81 , Research no. F3U9
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-08
Agasiga
- Authors: Bijyiyobyenda, Simon , 8 Hutu men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/244664 , vital:51282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT531-L153 , Research no. L3H1d
- Description: Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden beaters, and 1 laced and cylindrical treble drum with wooden beaters.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-02
Urwintwari
- Authors: Mirimba, Francois , Niyondorera, Joseph , Gakombe, Gakombe , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/217593 , vital:48300 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT309-F81 , Research no. F3U8
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-08
Indilimbo y'ingereza bahizi
- Authors: Three Hutu men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Katanga f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245214 , vital:51343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT532-L154 , Research no. L3H3
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-02
Ingaju
- Authors: Performer not specified , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148677 , vital:38762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-04
- Description: Accompanied by 2 drums, one conical, laced, closed, one long cylindrical, pinned. Makondera horn band of the Mwami of Ruanda
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Kyarutema
- Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Chief Bininga's home f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214830 , vital:47991 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. MOA7 SIDE B NO.4
- Description: Imihamilizo Tutsi dance song with Makondera horns and drum accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-15
Bamurangahe
- Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-07-15
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Chief Bininga's home f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/214846 , vital:47992 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT270-F2 , Research no. MOA7 SIDE B NO.4
- Description: Imihamilizo dance song played by Twa musicians for their Tutsi masters to dance to, with makondera horns and drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-07-15
Urunahi
- Authors: Ntamakiriro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Kibimba f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148971 , vital:38791 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-08
- Description: The singer addresses himself to the chiefs of the country asking for alms. Player holds a small rattle in his right hand, the stick of which strikes the gourd in order to create additional percussion. This same type of bow is called UKUBU by the HA and UGUBU by the Zulu. Fundamental notes of bow:- 288 and 720 vs. Medicant's song with musical bow, vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Inkuru nziza
- Authors: Ndengabaganzi Leonard , Rwagasana Michel , Ewagirumukiza Donatien , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183615 , vital:44015 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-06
- Description: Chant in honour of St. Mary Magdalen and the resurrection of our Lord. This unaccompanied hymn was composed by a Tutsi who was studying for the priesthood. Abbe Alfred by name. This man was also a notable musician. His proper name was Sebakiga. This song demonstrates the ease with which the particular style of indegenous singing found in Ruanda (Rwanda) can be readily adapted for Catholic use. Whether this will result in confusion or in a deeper appreciation of the basic folk music of the Tutsi remains to be seen. As elsewhere in Africa the danger lies in he non-musical social pressures exerted by the missions. Catholic chant
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Amaliza
- Authors: Batwa women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Rundi (African people) , Folk songs, Rundi , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148859 , vital:38780 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR058-02
- Description: A song in which the young women praise themselves. Sung when they come to pay court to the Omwami or at weedings. Praise song for chief with handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Urukina
- Authors: Bijyiyobyenda, Simon , 8 Hutu men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic Cite Indigene f-cg
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/244690 , vital:51285 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT531-L153 , Research no. L3H1g
- Description: Indigenous folk drum rhythms, with 2 conical drums, 5 laced and closed cylindrical drums with wooden beaters, and 1 laced and cylindrical treble drum with wooden beaters.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-02
Lama
- Authors: Ndengabaganizi Leonard and group of Tutsi , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183574 , vital:44009 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-02
- Description: "Why do I love you when you do not respond? I have written you letters and you do not answer? I have sent messengers and you turn them away. I bow to you when we meet and you hide your face. You do not notice me. Love song with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Lama
- Authors: Leonard, Ndengabaganizi , Group of Tutsi singers , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952-01-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Usumbura f-rw
- Language: Kinyarwanda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/215140 , vital:48025 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT275-F27 , Research no. MOA NO.7 SIDE1 NO.2
- Description: Love song with clapping accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952-01-08