Kgaka e tswher we ke mutloane Mamonope! (The guinea fowl has been caught by a small dog, Mamonope!)
- Authors: About 20 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Kwena (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Molepolole f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Kwena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162844 , vital:40989 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0109-12
- Description: Reference to the guinea fowl is common in Tswana songs often in connection with male initiation songs. Party dance song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Sechomane, ke kabo ke itsi (Sechomane, if I knew how to write)
- Authors: Group of about 30 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165344 , vital:41235 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-07
- Description: "Sechomane, if I knew how to write, I would write to the Chief." The melody of this song suggests a similarity with songs from the Masai - Arusha region of Tanganyika. There may be no direct connection whatsoever; it is only the musical impact which suggests the comparison. People's dance with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Hololo we Bahurutshe Matebeyane (When we saw the Hurutshe approaching, we thought they were Ndebele)
- Authors: Daniel Ramokgadi and Sei Lobega , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164277 , vital:41104 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-14
- Description: The song continues at considerable length. Another typical herdsman's song, "full of joy and full of scandals" as one man put it. In parts it is Rabelaisian. Humorous song with one stringed bow 'Segakure'.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Nkwe e jele Rantshilane (The leopard has eaten Rantshilane)
- Authors: Kebaakantse Dikhudu and group of 20 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165241 , vital:41222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-12
- Description: "A leopard has eaten Rantshilane. It held him, it ate him. Oh! Mokampa--wee!" The pitches of the 19 flutes were as follows:- 1728, 1568, 1280, 1136, 864, 760, 664, 584, 432, 380, 332, 292, 224, (216)? 194, 172, 144, 108, 98, 84. The pitch of each pipe can be varied by the player both by the position of the lips and tongue over the emboucher and by the force of the wind, especially noticeable in the higher pitched pipes. The general mode adopted can be gauged roughly but few conclusions as to a Tswana pipe scale can be made from this evidence alone. No names other than Tswana numerals were given to the pipes except to that of the leader playing the highest pipe - Mutenyane. Pipe dance with ensemble of 19 "Ditlhaka" flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Maboko a Dikgomo (Praises for cattle)
- Authors: Brown Medufe , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164218 , vital:41095 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-08
- Description: These folk are mostly a pastoral people who send the young boys out herding the cattle. Praise verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Mamarutla
- Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165678 , vital:41270 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-06
- Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ca a nelwe kolobe (Give the pig to no one)
- Authors: Young school girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162612 , vital:40955 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-13
- Description: This is a very well-known old Tswana song and can be heard in most districts and as far east as Saulspoort amongst the Kgatla. There is a little game left in the countryside and so the song must have been current in past generations when wild pig were plentiful. Song on returning from hunting.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ga a nelwe Kolobe (Give the pig to no one)
- Authors: Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166014 , vital:41307 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-11
- Description: "Give the pig to no one. Warn those dogs, Kolobe, and give the pig to no one. Pig is not given to one in confinement. Give it to no one. Hoki has not had some." This song reflects the play of words on the name Kolobe and its literal translation, meaning 'pig'. The song's origin is obsecure. There is little hunting now-a-days and there are few buck or pig left in the vivinity. This song is well-known, it appears, among most, if not all, Tswana tribes. Hunting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Kgokong
- Authors: Modiseng , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1948
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Maraisburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166283 , vital:41347 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-09
- Description: There are 4 sets of single end-blown pipes, 4 in each. From 1120 vs. to 93 vs. Each set covers a fifth only and is an octave lower than the one above. All notes bearing approximately the same relationship. Treble pipes are called Metenyane, Alto pipes are called Dinikwana, Tenor pipes are called Meporo, Bass pipes are called Meporo e metelele. Intervals: 259. 240. 209 cents. Total 708 cents. These copper and iron pipes are stopped with wood. In Bechuanaland, the pipes are made of reed-Matlhaka. These two flute tunes were recorded eleven years earlier than the other items on this side. Flute tune.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1948
He Mmuputsoane (Mmamoshage)
- Authors: Rautana Dinake and large group of men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162506 , vital:40941 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-04
- Description: "Mmamoshage, being with child, does not want to frequent the company of other people. Do you mean to say, Mmamoshage. That just because you have given up dancing I should no longer dance?" The women stand singing and clapping while the men dance. Pina dance with clapping and stamping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ga re a nwa ka nkgwana pele (There is a pot of beer in front of us)
- Authors: Stone Kgaswe and 4 Kgatla men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166236 , vital:41341 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-04
- Description: "We have in front of us a pot of beer. We are asking for the dregs" (meaning: 'We are longing to finish it). But the dregs are also the thickest part of the brew and are, therefore considered the best. Stone Kgaswe is the Postmaster of Mabe's kraal. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Godumaduma gwa Mosadi
- Authors: Modiseng , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1948
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Maraisburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166275 , vital:41346 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-08
- Description: There are 4 sets of single end-blown pipes, 4 in each. From 1120 vs. to 93 vs. Each set covers a fifth only and is an octave lower than the one above. All notes bearing approximately the same relationship. Treble pipes are called Metenyane, Alto pipes are called Dinikwana, Tenor pipes are called Meporo, Bass pipes are called Meporo e metelele. Intervals: 259. 240. 209 cents. Total 708 cents. These copper and iron pipes are stopped with wood. In Bechuanaland, the pipes are made of reed-Matlhaka. These two flute tunes were recorded eleven years earlier than the other items on this side. Flute tune.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1948
Dumele le teme teme lengwe le godimo (Greetings to the most respected Chief)
- Authors: Levi Matlapeng , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166338 , vital:41353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-15
- Description: This praise verse to Chief Matlapeng was spoken by a young man, one of his relatives. Praise verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Silang moshoko (Grind and make porridge)
- Authors: Grace Merementsi and group of about 30 school girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165177 , vital:41215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-09
- Description: "Grind and make porridge, milk the cows. The sun has set. The children are hungry. The children are getting rheumatic. That man is lean." Some of the children knelt and rubbed the stones on each other, in imitation of grinding whilst the others sang and made appropriate miming gestures to each verse. Children's singing game.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
A re eng
- Authors: Serakalala Abotsen and large group of middle-aged and elderly men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162497 , vital:40940 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-03
- Description: "Let us go, let us go to the Great palace to see our senior, our Chief Tshosa Mogoloarona, he is calling." The whole group danced enthusisastically during the performance. Walking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
He mogoge goga o lere thokolo (Draw, draw us heavy drops of rain)
- Authors: Boyalenyana Simamma and large group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162538 , vital:40945 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-08
- Description: When the women bring the first crops of the chief, they sing their thanks and ask him to pray for rain. Thele is a custom for women to pretend to beat the chief with leafy branches (very respectfully) when asking him to pray for rain on these occassions
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Maboko a Kgosi (Chief's praises)
- Authors: Sei Robega , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164194 , vital:41092 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-05
- Description: The praise is composed by the speaker or praiser themselves. Praise in verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Natal koa Boroa Tshukudu
- Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165688 , vital:41272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-08
- Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Selepe ga se a ja mesu (The axe on the thorn tree)
- Authors: Ngwaketse men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162550 , vital:40946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-09
- Description: "Chop, chop, the axe on the thorn tree." This is also used as a dance song for the Pina dance, a cheerful party dance. Work song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Maboko a Kgosi (Praises for Chief Masibi)
- Authors: Andrew Morothoco , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164184 , vital:41088 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0110-04
- Description: The praise is composed by the speaker or praiser themselves. Praise in verse.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959