Magonde
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180132 , vital:43317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-02
- Description: One of the best known tunes in all the Shona area of Southern Rhodesia. It has been associated with the older generation of forefathers and consquently played at all tribal or royal functions. The cock is above the Chief, because he wakes up still earler. Girls, let me make a magic. Grandmothers food! there is something suspicious under the plate. Which makes my heart turn over, (makes me want to be sick). My relative, my girl, dance well to delight my heart. Leave your husband and let us dance. Whatever happens we will pay for it, mu mother. What I have said is very little, and not enough to stop you cooking food. Girls just let me walk all over it. You girls, you refuse anyone until you feel you are about to die. I am also a man like other men. I am a cock, I am a ... (word not clear) and my spurs are worn out with strutting, (the ruffling of the wing feathers against the leg). The fowls have no holes in the village. Outside the village thay are afraid of cutting the trees. The older men with beards interfere. It is only their beards which make them sorry people. The Ndebele want administration all the time, and to pick and chose what they like from the cattle kraal. I am ugly but I am not a cannibal! I may be ugly but I am not a killer! I am ugly but still I do my ploughing! Song for the entertainment of chiefs, with Njari.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mai vandoswere piko
- Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180628 , vital:43594 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-05
- Description: "Mother where have you been all the day? I have been to Tinyandoro where the baboons live! Climb up the Musasa tree and see." The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth.
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- Date Issued: 1951
Mai wa Aruna (Mother of Aruna)
- Authors: James Gwezhe Soko , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180610 , vital:43592 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-03
- Description: A traditional song, sung after a party. No one knows who the mother of Aruna might have been. The song has been sung for over 30 years to my certain knowledge and is likely to be much older. Traditional song with "Mbira Huru".
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- Date Issued: 1951
Map of Africa, 1794. Estate of Monomotapa
- Subjects: Monomotapa Empire , Mutapa , Africa , Zimbabwe , Africa -- Maps , Monomotapa Empire -- Maps , Mutapa -- Maps
- Type: Image
- Identifier: vital:13970 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017490 , CD 55 , MS 10 542 , PIC/SL 4804
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Masongano
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180167 , vital:43328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-05
- Description: Of all the multiple souls, or Mashawi, with which each man and woman is blest, the Masangano or Parental souls are the most important. Continuity of the tribe is with most people a central belief and conviction. With the Karanga this is crystalized in the ritual of Masongano and of the Midzimu -the immediate dead. The Masongano are in the path. Mother, let me step over it. You, woman, when you are pregnant you are in the firplace, of that I am sure. When you eat pumpkins you must be uncomfortably full! Fair skinned women are thoughtless. Early in the morning they get up and go to the fireplace outside, you men. Short women are alert, and if I was asked about Zinembgwa, I would say it is a mature girl who cannot make fire. Leave your husband and let us dance. Anything that happens we will account for. What I have said is very little. Not enough to make you leave home! If women were eaten like meat, I would chose the rump steak. The rest of it I would throw to the dogs. Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Matye rupanga (Fear of the knife)
- Authors: Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mutasa f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180718 , vital:43606 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-14
- Description: The 'diatonic progression' (the two similar phrases sung one after the other) is typical of a great number of Shona songs. Installation of a Chief, with rattle and clapping (-12.03-).
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- Date Issued: 1951
Mbiriwiri ya Mondoro
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Fort Victoria f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180222 , vital:43334 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-11
- Description: The name of this tune 'Mbiriwiri' has been associated with the playing of Mbira type instruments from time immemorial. In this case it is also connected with the spirit concept of the Mondoro or Lion spirit. The singer uses several quotations from older songs such as "Regai ndi baiwa ne banga chena, kufa kwandida." This is to be the prophet Chaminuka's last words when he was surrounded by Ndebele soilders who had come to kill him. They could not harm him and he died by being pierced in the armpit with a sharp knife held by a small boy. "Let me be stabbed by a bright knife, the death of my desiring." Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Munandi
- Authors: Dudzai Sigauke , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180749 , vital:43610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-16
- Description: "Dance gently so that your breasts do not drop. You, from heaven, what do they talk about there? They talk about the punishment for theft." It appears that the player had recently been in gaol for theft. The mouth resonated harmonics can be clearly heard in this recording. Self delectative tune with friction bow, mouth resonated, and rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1951
Musengu
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180141 , vital:43324 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-03
- Description: The spirit complex which goes by the name Mondoro or Lion spirit is a central belief in the ethics of the Karanga people. This song is here played by a gifted young musician who plays his instruments in the traditional style. Do not argue child, it is forbidden. And you will be sorry for it. Ha, my son-in-law, it makes you feel good (?) The way you dance makes the earth turn over. Song for the Mondoro Spirits with Njari.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Muzazaranda
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180152 , vital:43327 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-04
- Description: Many of the best pieces of music in South Rhodesia are dedicated to the traditional belief in Mashawi souls. Muzazaranda is one of several songs which accompany this interesting ritual. Mashawi 'Souls' are not to be confused with the various spirits. The former are said to live in the chest of the individual, the latter's usual habitation is external. Girls you have looked at me. Do you know me? You boys, my name is "The cutter of gourds". Do you east grandmother's food, you boys. Under the plate there is something suspicious. Chikanga do not leave me when you go hunting. I want to see it hen you catch a 'duiker' (buck). My mother, ... my mother, has turned over. Has turned over the sun the moon! My mother's magic, it pleases me, it follows me wherever I go. That thing of my mother pleases. It came with four hyaenas. The fifth one ran off with the mouse. You, young person! Look, look you young person! Look, look at the girls! To you, you, you young person! To you, Chijaka, you Chijaka, you young person! Song for Mashawi souls with Njari (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ndagado kufa
- Authors: Muchaenda Sigauke with Ndau men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180758 , vital:43611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-17
- Description: 'I nearly died." A typical threshing song which will keep the team of threshers wprking for long s[ells at a time. The yodeling is also typical of the music of the eastern and central parts of Southern Rhodesia. The Garwe clan lives halfway betwenn the Manyika and the WaNdau in the Melsetter district. The Ndau call them "Manyika" and the Manyika call them "Ndau". Threshing song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1951
Ndera wandera
- Authors: Duma women and men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180583 , vital:43405 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-17
- Description: The response by the audience is "Sarangano, sarangano. A certain woman who was very found of meat went to fetch water at the stream and saw a crocodile which put its head out of the water and sneezed. "Ah" she said "Bless you! What do you want?" The crocodile said he would like some beer. So they made an arrangement between them ... six fish for siz pots of beer. Story song
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ndinoda kuyenda mbuyawe
- Authors: Mashanje Shawa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180492 , vital:43394 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-07
- Description: These three short tunes also demonstrate the sound of the friction bow as heard by the player. One end of the palm leaf strip is held across the open mouth and the whole is set in vibration by the rattle stick rubbing across serations in the bow. The mouth harmonies can be heard through the piercing noise of the rattle and the rubbing. Self delectative songs, with Chipendani musical bow and Chimazambi friction bow.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ndinosara nani (With whom shall I stay)
- Authors: Muroiwa Musobenzo , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180403 , vital:43360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-06
- Description: a) This tune in 5 time is very well known in the southern part of the country, and has been set to the Njari Mbira as well as the bow and was recorded by H. T. T. in 1933, sixteen years earlier. b) The player strained up his bow for the second tune. Both tunes were recorded with the microphone very near the performer's mouth in order to demonstrate the sound of the Chipedani as heard by the player himself. The mouthed harmonics can be clearly heard. Only those very nearby would in fact hear the bow clearly and the mouth harmonics. Self delectative songs, with Chipendani musical bow and Chimazambi friction bow.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Ngorombe
- Authors: Several boys with Nyere flutes , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180316 , vital:43352 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-03
- Description: The Zezuru play ensembles of flutes, each player having two or three loose end blown flutes which blows in his turn interpolating his notes at the right moments in the melody after the fashion of bell ringers. The players perform a number of variations interpreting voiced notes into the sequence of pipe notes. Ngorombe flute dance.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Nheura
- Authors: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180123 , vital:43316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-01
- Description: A song for entertaining the chief. The title of this song has persisted for generations, each no doubt setting its own topical words to the traditional air. This in turn has no doubt suffered many a change in the course of time but is still Nheura for all that. The yodelling by Shona musicians in Southern Rhodesia is a distictive characteristic of their music and is similar to the yodelling of the Mambuti pygmies of North East Congo and the Turi forest. Chabarwa is a Njanja from the Charter district where about 1750 A.D. a certain Portuguese mulatto trader married the chief's daughter and took the Mitupo or clan name of Sinyoro (Senhor) which has been handed down to his male descendants since that date. Leave your husband and let us dance. What I have said is very little. But not enough to leave your husband behind in the house. The dream of Hobe's wife is true, she dreamed about a wagon. It has come, you men. Tall men are lucky, even when they kneel down they are still big. You can do it too. You women, I will start. The children of today are wocked. They only learn to be 'wasters'. We will marry the children of the Zinjanja. There are women who wear skin aprons. But the cost of dresses spoil the country. Who have you come with? Four will come in and the fifth I will go with. Topical song sung for the entertainment of Chiefs, with Njari dza Manjanja (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Pi mcinanga
- Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1951
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180672 , vital:43600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-09
- Description: It was a time of famine and the chief had collected a heap of flying ants which were put out to dry on a rock. He ordered the people to look after this precious food. The people told him that a small buck came and took the ants. So the chief went down to see for himself. While he was there the small buck came along and sang to the chief at the rock, eating up the ants as he sang. The people were so delighted and enchanted that they sang the chorus for the buck while he ate up the ants in front of their eyes until all the ants were finished. Story song, with 2 rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1951
Samanyemba ne Nzou
- Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Mangwende f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180601 , vital:43589 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-02
- Description: The story of an elephant who was given a child to liik after. "I have brought up so many children, that is easy, leave it to me" said the elephant. So he took the child away into the thick bush. When evening came she called the elephant to bring the child back. But there was no reply. So she went home to tell her husband and to collect the men to come and help her find the elephant. They came straight away, found the footprints of the elephant and followed them into the bush singing to the elephant as they went. At this point the recording ends without the denouement, so we shall never know if she got her child back or not. Whenever the word or refrain 'Samanyemba' is used in a Karanga song it is usually associated with decit. It appears that Samanyemba was the father of all liars - men were deceivers ever. Story song.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Sarunde-runde-runde
- Authors: Duma women and men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180574 , vital:43404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR173-16
- Description: In this well known story the hero is called Sarunde at Bikita but Saronde is in the Chilimanzi district. In this version, the elder brother covets his younger brother's beautiful wife; while out hunting together the elder brother manages to entice his younger brother into a cave and rolls stones over the entrance. He can be heard singing from inside the cave telling people outside what has happened. Story song
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- Date Issued: 1949
Shangara
- Authors: Manyoni Wanyamande and his wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Gwelo f-rh
- Language: Shona
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180185 , vital:43330 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR172-07
- Description: Drinking song with Njari (Mbira)
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- Date Issued: 1949