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Ewutut-tutu

Ayaas imoo esosi ka sogoli

Elosi aberu akipore imaniti abiro

  • Authors: Iganitiyo Ekacholi and Teso men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
  • Language: Adhola
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169309 , vital:41713 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-13
  • Description: It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voice. Iganitiyo, the harp, made friends with Chief K. Omudeka and he visited him at his place over the border in Kenya. He was surprised at the great amount of land which was under cultivation there. He entertained the chief every evening of his visit by playing and singing to his Adedeu harp. Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles, 1 side blown Aluti horn.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ibore aari papa, ng’es kaari eong’da

Euodi odekayi etwani

Adoliong’p akwapa k’omudeke inaminami

  • Authors: Iganitiyo Ekacholi and Teso men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
  • Language: Adhola
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169300 , vital:41712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-12
  • Description: It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voice. Iganitiyo, the harp, made friends with Chief K. Omudeka and he visited him at his place over the border in Kenya. He was surprised at the great amount of land which was under cultivation there. He entertained the chief every evening of his visit by playing and singing to his Adedeu harp. Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles, 1 side blown Aluti horn.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Emomong’o oluki papakimong’ini

Chibudo movement

  • Authors: Komukomu (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1956
  • Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Chopi , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133307 , vital:36962 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-07
  • Description: Movement from the Ngodo xylophone orchestral dance of Regulo Banguza with 15 xylophones and I rattle
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  • Date Issued: 1956

Chipinga movement

Chitsope movement

Chitsope movement

Padhola

Tich mabere

Jamagara

  • Authors: Odongo with Dhola men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
  • Language: Adhola
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169228 , vital:41702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-04
  • Description: This set of xylophone notes is played by five men, two on the one side and there on the other side of the notes which lie on their banana supports between them. The players beat the ends of the notes, not their centres, and if they slip out of place they are pushed back by the players on either side. The notes are made of Isambya wood. These xylophones are played at funeral and other parties especially for the older folk. The leader is called Jachiogo and the other players Jegini. Kwabyalumbe dance tunes with Ndara 13 note xylophone.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Okachi

  • Authors: Odongo with Dhola men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
  • Language: Adhola
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169233 , vital:41703 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-05
  • Description: This set of xylophone notes is played by five men, two on the one side and there on the other side of the notes which lie on their banana supports between them. The players beat the ends of the notes, not their centres, and if they slip out of place they are pushed back by the players on either side. The notes are made of Isambya wood. These xylophones are played at funeral and other parties especially for the older folk. The leader is called Jachiogo and the other players Jegini. Kwabyalumbe dance tunes with Ndara 13 note xylophone.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Drum Rhythms

  • Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169210 , vital:41697 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-02
  • Description: The bells on the ankles of one drummer can be heard though he was not dancing. The names of the two drums are: Timbo (the larger) and Pere (the smaller). Kyopere drum rhythms. Two long stem Goblet drums, open, pegged, with python skin membranes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nyakawo miya Kataiga = Give me Kataiga cloth

  • Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169201 , vital:41696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-01
  • Description: A certain boy loved a girl and gave her a present of Kataiga print cloth. He changed his mind but his girl asked him not to take his cloth back. He agreed and left her the cloth as a souvenir. Kyopere dance song for men and women. With two long stem goblet drums, open and pinned, with python skin membrane.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

O’Winyi Tito obeyobo lobo

  • Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169219 , vital:41698 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-03
  • Description: The men sing the words while the women yodell. The burden of the song is that the Mukama (Tito Gafubusa Winyi II. C.B.E. paramount chief of Bunyoro) makes good laws. He had made a law to stop women from leaving the country in order to become prostituties eleswhere. "At home! ah, that is another matter", they said in answer to a question. Praise song for the Mukama.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sigowuli tunes

Sigowuli tunes

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