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Authors: Balekenosa Kayala , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175164 , vital:42549 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-01
Description: This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend have a strange fascination. They are played, they said, during the burial feast or wake. A woman can be crying in the background as in mourning. The method of blowing this pipe is interesting. The open, square cut end to the bamboo pipe is partly closed by the tongue, the wind being expelled out of the side of the mouth across the edge of the bamboo. The tongue is used to give a vibrato effect but the purity of tone is marred by the strong edge tone. These tunes, they say, are frequently used for lamenting the dead, and the player will sit all night outside the hut of his dead friend, improvising flute tunes throughout the hours of darkness.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Balekenosa Kayala , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175256 , vital:42558 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-04
Description: This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend have a strange fascination. They are played, they said, during the burial feast or wake. A woman can be crying in the background as in mourning. The method of blowing this pipe is interesting. The open, square cut end to the bamboo pipe is partly closed by the tongue, the wind being expelled out of the side of the mouth across the edge of the bamboo. The tongue is used to give a vibrato effect but the purity of tone is marred by the strong edge tone. These tunes, they say, are frequently used for lamenting the dead, and the player will sit all night outside the hut of his dead friend, improvising flute tunes throughout the hours of darkness. Ilonge end blown flutes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Balekenosa Kayala , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175273 , vital:42559 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-05
Description: This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend have a strange fascination. They are played, they said, during the burial feast or wake. A woman can be crying in the background as in mourning. The method of blowing this pipe is interesting. The open, square cut end to the bamboo pipe is partly closed by the tongue, the wind being expelled out of the side of the mouth across the edge of the bamboo. The tongue is used to give a vibrato effect but the purity of tone is marred by the strong edge tone. These tunes, they say, are frequently used for lamenting the dead, and the player will sit all night outside the hut of his dead friend, improvising flute tunes throughout the hours of darkness. Ilonge end blown flutes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Balekenosa Kayala , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175251 , vital:42557 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-03
Description: This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend have a strange fascination. They are played, they said, during the burial feast or wake. A woman can be crying in the background as in mourning. The method of blowing this pipe is interesting. The open, square cut end to the bamboo pipe is partly closed by the tongue, the wind being expelled out of the side of the mouth across the edge of the bamboo. The tongue is used to give a vibrato effect but the purity of tone is marred by the strong edge tone. These tunes, they say, are frequently used for lamenting the dead, and the player will sit all night outside the hut of his dead friend, improvising flute tunes throughout the hours of darkness. Ilonge end blown flutes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Balekenosa Kayala , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Nyakyusa (African people) , Zaramo (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kiwira f-tz
Language: Nyakyusa , Zaramo
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175246 , vital:42556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR158-02
Description: This hunting flute melodies improvised by the player as he sits iutside the hut of a dead friend have a strange fascination. They are played, they said, during the burial feast or wake. A woman can be crying in the background as in mourning. The method of blowing this pipe is interesting. The open, square cut end to the bamboo pipe is partly closed by the tongue, the wind being expelled out of the side of the mouth across the edge of the bamboo. The tongue is used to give a vibrato effect but the purity of tone is marred by the strong edge tone. These tunes, they say, are frequently used for lamenting the dead, and the player will sit all night outside the hut of his dead friend, improvising flute tunes throughout the hours of darkness. Ilonge end blown flutes.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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