Zaina wasala madembe (Those that are left behind)
- Authors: Simenti Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Sena (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Malindi f-mw
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156568 , vital:40022 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-16
- Description: The tune orginated from the Southern side of the Zambezi valley from the Sena/Tonga people, so the singer said. If so it is likely that the original tune was played upon some instrument other than the Bangwe board zither which normally does not penetrate across the Zambezi. Self delectative song with board zither (Bangwe).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Tu changiye
- Authors: Zuze, Solomon , Nguza, Louis , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-08-04
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Elisabethville f-cg
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/245866 , vital:51412 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT535-L157 , Research no. L3J1
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by a guitar, a friction stick and a struck bottle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-08-04
Kwanukimpi
- Authors: Group of Mpondo elder men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-23
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tabankulu f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228365 , vital:49550 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT425-L46 , Research no. L1U1
- Description: An old fighting song about the smell of war.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-23
Doka, wandimara chiperi
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Beni Furancungo f-mz
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251901 , vital:52179 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT589-M61 , Research no. M3F8
- Description: A dai dance song accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-24
Ndodya mutombo
- Authors: o Feliciano, Muntano Gomez , Gomez, F , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Topical song , Guitar music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131992 , vital:36783 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR003-05 , Field card no. H1P-10
- Description: "Doctor must cure doctor." When a doctor (nyanga) falls sick, he must seek another nyanga to cure him, as he cannot know the medicine to cure himself. This tune would make an excellent round. One of three topical songs with guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Mona Karunga Vana Mushampuruka
- Authors: Composer Not Specified , Marungu, Kashindi , Katewa, Silvester , Karufere, P. M. , Haididira, P. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-11-17
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Sambiu f-sx
- Language: Kwangali
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/262410 , vital:53515 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD032-05
- Description: Indigenous music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-11-17
Qubula inkosi
- Authors: Men and women of the choir of the church of Shembe , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-01-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Not specified f-sa
- Language: Zulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/224064 , vital:49063 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT340-H6 , Research no. H1C9
- Description: A hymn for christain dancing accompanied by izigubu drums and imbungu horns.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-01-24
Wada pita pana pa Angoni
- Authors: Nyungwe men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Beni Furancungo f-mz
- Language: Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/251910 , vital:52180 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT589-M61 , Research no. M3F9
- Description: A dai dance song accompanied by drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-24
Nai puma kuma kuba ngii ndoda
- Authors: Mbontyi, Nqwane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-05-21
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Peddie f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/228207 , vital:49532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT419-L40 , Research no. L1S10a
- Description: A tune played on the harmonica.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-05-21
Msitso weMbidi. 2nd Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Banguza , Jao Nemba Mboteya (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Banguza f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/191334 , vital:45086 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR199-07
- Description: Bilenyani is the local maker of Timbila who played a Doli sitting in the second rank behind the leader. Orchestral introductions with 16 Timbila xylophones, 1 Chilanzane (Treble), 8 Sange (Alto), 2 Doli (Tenor), 2 Debiinda (Bass), and 4 Njele rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ke dumela go Modimo
- Authors: Composer Not Specified , Epukiro Folk , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Epukiro f-sx
- Language: Afrikaans , Tswana
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/262047 , vital:53475 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD031-04
- Description: Indigenous music, Church Songs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-05-02
Sabwabwa
- Authors: Group of 5 Kete men , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1957-07-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo (Democratic Republic) Katanga f-cg
- Language: Lunda
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/242575 , vital:51057 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT509-L131 , Research no. L2Z7
- Description: Maza dance for men and women with 1 slit drum (canoe), 1 weighted cylindrical drum (Nguma), open hand beaten and 3 xylophones accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957-07-24
He! Makoth' omncane
- Authors: Dargie, Dave , Ngqoko Herd Boys
- Date: 1981-10-24
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/258883 , vital:53028 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD025-13
- Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-10-24
Salute
- Authors: Men of the Premier Groupement, Force Publique , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-07-07
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Congo Elizabethville, Lubumbashi f-cg
- Language: French
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202895 , vital:46585 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-034 , Research no. C2U3
- Description: A song which soldiers marched to accompanied by a brass band and trumpets.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-07-07
Juma pembe
- Authors: Simai Bini Ali with Swahili men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Tanzania , Swahili-speaking peoples , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Zanzibar f-tz
- Language: Swahili
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179889 , vital:43246 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-02
- Description: This short song is used for waking up the people for their last meal-the second of the night during the fast of Ramadhan. The singers go around singing and playing the drum at about 1-2 a.m. It is a picturesque Swahili/Mohammedan custom. The to membranes of the bass drum are tuned to different notes. Kigoma cha daku songs, with 2 tin rattles, 1 double-sided bass drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
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
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-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1951
Nina Hara Karunga
- Authors: Sitoka, Joseph , Tondoro Folk , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-11-14
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Nambia Tondoro f-sx
- Language: Kwangali
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/260400 , vital:53280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD029-01
- Description: Indigenous traditional music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-11-14
Woca mwana
- Authors: Nezala Shonga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mukotsama f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185285 , vital:44361 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-07
- Description: "She burnt her child, carelessly! She has fine great hips, a delight to the touch!" A song of broad rustic humour by a Ngoni singer in the language of the district-Tumbuka. Humorous song with Bango board zither
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Shibudu. 9th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Mavila , Shambini , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Mavila f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/191258 , vital:45076 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR199-01
- Description: "All you people of Gaza, listen to this wonderful Mzeno of Timbilas." The sound of the dancers smacking their shields onto the ground can be heard in the background as they dance in line. Orchestral dances with 6 Timbila xylophones, 4 Sanzhe (Alto), 1 Debiinda (Bass), 1 Gulu (Double Bass) and 1 Njele rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963