Nguruwe (The pig)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138433 , vital:37636 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-08
- Description: Throughout Africa drinking songs are often the most gay and light-heated of all local songs and this is no exception. Mayanza drinking song with 1 Gavanda drum, conical, single, open, pegged and 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ngubani o'sibizela elamgeni
- Authors: Ngoni men , Ngoni women , Nsenga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184502 , vital:44229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-12
- Description: An old regimental song from the days of Zongendaba now used at parties or when the men have killed a lion or leopard, at the dance before the chief to celebrate the event. This song and many others like it demonstrate the Zulu or Ngoni strain in the northern Nyasaland culture since there has been no direct connection with Zukuland for well over 100 years. Mgubo dance song, after hunting leopard or lion
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- Date Issued: 1950
Ngoma dze ngororombe
- Authors: Sani Madera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Tonga/Sena
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179245 , vital:39864 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-07
- Description: This remarkably efficient syncopating drummer gives a brilliant display on two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, accompanied by a ground played on Usindi and Karipi-Karipi. The player of the latter was blind. For details of the drums see TR085-03 and TR085-04. Drum rhythms with 4 drums.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Ngoma (3)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138824 , vital:37676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-07
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma (2)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138819 , vital:37675 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-06
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138810 , vital:37674 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-05
- Description: The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely hapharzard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancing madly in a mob. The step is a short staccato, jigging step to and fro, very simple. Noise seems to be the main object and the dust thrown up by their feet in the alluvial soil of the river valley almost obscured the tight knot of dancers. The celeste caused by the treble pipes in deafening to an observer, but too high pitched to record. The names of the 7 drums from smal to large were:- 1) Gogogo, 2) Kingaridi, 3) Chamutanda, 4) Muntunda, 5) Mujinji, 6) Pininga, 7) Pati. The first four are played with sticks and the three others with hands. They are all the same basic shape being an almost square cut rectangular cylinder for a body and a hollow pipe of wood without foot for a base. They are all sung across the shoulder or held between the thighs for playing. Ngoma dance with Nyele end-blown antelope horn and set of Ngoma drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngoma
- Authors: Group of Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138044 , vital:37587 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-08
- Description: The names of the drums from small to large are: Gogogo, Chamutanda, Muntundu, Pininga and Pati. The drums set the pace of the rhythm, then the horns begin. Each man or boy blows one horn and interpolates his note as he pleases while he dances a jig to and fro among the close knot of hornblowers. The result is a loud and cheerful noise devoid of any melody with everyone, men, women and children shouting, singing and whistling as they shuffle to the impulse of the drumming. The hornblowers at first held ther free hand to an ear, presumably to help them establish their own contribution to the mass sound. Funeral dance song with ensemble of Nyele end-blown antelope horns and Ngoma drums.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ngano zwano twokuruma (The story of the people who were digging)
- Authors: Jobi Chaliwepa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138526 , vital:37646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-04
- Description: The response is "Kalanga-ti". The burden of this story is that a certain man with only one testicle could not walk like other men, but walked with a limp on account of his physical peculiarity. Story with song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nensonde nyama nyawonga
- Authors: Jespar Lungu and is wife , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Nsenga (African people) , Ngoni (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Petauke f-za
- Language: Nsenga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184446 , vital:44223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR185-06
- Description: The man is singing, partly in Falsetto, a duet with his wife. Self delectative song with Kalimba, eleven notes, fan and external resonator
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwimo lwa mutetere(Flute tune)
- Authors: Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138460 , vital:37639 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-11
- Description: The flute was 6 feet long, and was made of the section of an old bicycle pump. Walking song. (Also self-delectative after work), with Mutetere transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwano uswi yatata (Father's fish)
- Authors: Group of young Tonga girls and children , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138499 , vital:37643 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-01
- Description: The story was told to a group of about 30 children of all ages by a young girl of about 16 years. The story was clearly a well known favourite as the audience participated in the song without hesitation or teaching. Perhaps it was father's favourite fishing story. Story with songs.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndwano siya mani zuminina ngoma ye
- Authors: Group of 8 Tonga men and boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139126 , vital:37707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-17
- Description: This story was enacted as well as told with much vigour. It appears to be based on the theme of the child imprisoned in a drum by a wicked old musician - a story which is well known on the south of the Zambezi throughout S. Rhodesia as the story of "Mikunda wa serewa" and in other versions. Story with song.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndoba bieena wisi Mbozi (I am afraid, Father of Mbozi)
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138026 , vital:37585 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-06
- Description: This was an actual funeral dance for an old woman. The dance was a circle dance and a few men joined in, one of them singing the verses. The woman wear clothes knotted on the shoulder (black), leaving one shoulder bare. A string tied round the head. Some of them just wore kilts or skirts and very few beads. "What can I do, As I have lost my mother, oh, what are all these sorrows upon me-" The chorus repeats - "O-yeyeye!" Womens' funeral dance-after burial.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)
- Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
- Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndicha Girita pano mufare mufare (I am leaving here, stay happily)
- Authors: Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera , 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 Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156532 , vital:40013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-12
- Description: The drum player hits the side of the drum with his stick, the membrane with his fingers as well as playing strong notes with the stick and his hand. Party song with three Matebe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Ndamba ndabula bwa muleya (The child says I am the son of my father)
- Authors: Tenesi Muntanga and Panisi Mwetwa and group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138315 , vital:37622 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-19
- Description: There appears to be some connection in this song with the matrilineal outlook of the Tonga people, who inherit through the more certain distaff side. The fact that the child made this remark might indicate that truth may be spoken "out of the mouth of babes", regarding legitimacy. Mendicant's song with leg rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Ndafwa bama (I am dying mama)
- Authors: Notis Chukwa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139097 , vital:37704 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-15
- Description: This item is taken from a dance song-which appears to be a common practice for bow players. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ndaboola oko ( I am on my way there)
- Authors: H. G. Habanyama and group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138928 , vital:37686 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-13
- Description: "I am lonely, I wish you would come and help me-who shall sing me my mother's song before I die-I am ashamed because there is nobody who will sing my mother's song." Chiyema party song for men and women with 2 goblet and 1 cylindrical drum, hand beaten and 1 Kayanda tin rattle.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Nabutema fulida mvlito (Widow, blow up the fire)
- Authors: Tonga woman , Anrosi Kaniamba
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137990 , vital:37581 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-02
- Description: This is the only bow of its kind I have seen with a mirliton of spider's nest on the top of the resonating gourd. The song is supposed to be sung by a man who is visiting a woman in her hut and says "Below the fire so that I can see your face." Played with a stout section of grass. Love song with Kalumbo one-stringed, braced, gourd resonated bow, with mirliton.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Muzolange nobakotata (You come and see me)
- Authors: Siambelele Nyama , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138108 , vital:37594 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-15
- Description: The singer says to his father's relations: "You must come and see me and find out what difficulties I am in. I am suffering like a dog, can't come and assist me. If I am really your son, you should help me." Scale of the instrument: 656, 584, 528, 472, 432, 396, 356, 328, 292, 264 vps. Personal lament with fan-shaped Kankowela mira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957