Doane
- Authors: Machatini, Maviye , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198624 , vital:46003 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-014 , Research no. CM16
- Description: Indigenous folk song of personal lament, with singing, clapping and intermittent background yodelling and whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-03
Dowane
- Authors: Young Chopi boys and girls with Chopi women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198300 , vital:45965 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL6
- Description: Indigenous folk song for children's night dance, with singing and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Drum Rhythms
- Authors: Samuiri Oduonga and Chopi men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba f-ug
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169210 , vital:41697 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-02
- Description: The bells on the ankles of one drummer can be heard though he was not dancing. The names of the two drums are: Timbo (the larger) and Pere (the smaller). Kyopere drum rhythms. Two long stem Goblet drums, open, pegged, with python skin membranes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Elosi aberu akipore imaniti abiro
- Authors: Iganitiyo Ekacholi and Teso men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
- Language: Adhola
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169309 , vital:41713 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-13
- Description: It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voice. Iganitiyo, the harp, made friends with Chief K. Omudeka and he visited him at his place over the border in Kenya. He was surprised at the great amount of land which was under cultivation there. He entertained the chief every evening of his visit by playing and singing to his Adedeu harp. Topical song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles, 1 side blown Aluti horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Emomong’o oluki papakimong’ini
- Authors: Iganitiyo Ekacholi and Teso men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
- Language: Adhola
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169318 , vital:41714 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-14
- Description: The Teso are a pastoral people and call their Chiefs by the names of bulls. They say their Chiefs are wise, ruling over the people likebulls over the herds. Praise song with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles, 1 side blown Aluti horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Eto anga mahwaTambuzi
- Authors: Manzatu, Pondekane , Ngodo of Zavala , Nyamombe, Katini , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Quissico, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200384 , vital:46229 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-021 , Research no. CR10
- Description: Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, singing, and intermittent background yodelling and cries, accompanied by rattles. Orchestral dance song for the Chiriri movement of the Ngodo of Zavala of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Eto Ninga Mahwa
- Authors: Katini, Katinyane , Ngodo of Zavala , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Quissico, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200410 , vital:46232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-022 , Research no. CR13
- Description: Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, singing and background cries, accompanied by rattles and intermittent whistling. Orchestral dance song for the Msumeto movement of the Ngodo of Zavala of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Eto, hangane maha
- Authors: Miliya Bukulane , Rude Wache , Amelia Faduko , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Canda f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193276 , vital:45317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-11
- Description: Note the change of rhythm as third girl joins in with her pestle. The names of the three women who sang were:- Miliya Bukulane, Rude Wache, Amelia Faduko. Other women were singing in the background. Three women's pounding song, with pestles and mortar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Euodi odekayi etwani
- Authors: Iganitiyo Ekacholi and Teso men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
- Language: Adhola
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169278 , vital:41710 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-10
- Description: "It matters not how dirty or even feble minded a person may be, he should live and perform his duty in keeping with his station in life." Morality songs with five string Adedeu horizontal harp, clapping and leg rattles, 1 side blown Aluti horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ewutut-tutu
- Authors: Ekisa Saulo and Teso men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Chopi , Jopadhola (African people) , Teso (African people) , Music--Uganda , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Lukiko f-ug
- Language: Adhola
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169336 , vital:41716 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0130-16
- Description: The Akisuku dance is done by men and women in two rows shoulder to shoulder. They spring into the air in unision without apparently moving arms or legs but with a clear straight spring, up and down in time with the music. Akisuku dance song for men, with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Gongondo
- Authors: Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195109 , vital:45528 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-06
- Description: This cider is made from the fruit of the Caju tree, (also spelt Cazhu and Cashew). The fruit consists of an apple, which is fermented for cider, and an external nut, the cashew nut, which is attached to the tip of the apple in a crescent shaped pod. The nut itself is edible but the hard pod in which it is encased is impregnated with virulent oil which must first be expelled by fire or distillation before the nut can be cracked open. It now forms an important part of the local economy. The cashew apples rippen in November and their harvest marks a time of annual indulgence for the Chopi and is frequently mentioned in song. Drinking song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Gongondo
- Authors: Chopi women , Mwutamula , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198242 , vital:45959 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-011 , Research no. CL3
- Description: Indigenous folk drinking song with singing and handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-02
Gongondwani wandwike
- Authors: Elena Leve , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193178 , vital:45306 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-04
- Description: "You Gongondwani, you kill people but stay alive yourself." Funeral song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Gulende gulende
- Authors: Machatini, Nwatamula , Machatini, Nwatamul , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198651 , vital:46007 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-015 , Research no. CM17
- Description: Indigenous folk song of personal lament, with singing, clapping and background whistling towards the end.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-03
Hambokami kota mova
- Authors: Tabarirevu Muyambo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Folk songs, Ndau , Chopi (African people) , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Mwanditura f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194266 , vital:45438 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-11
- Description: This song is generally known among the people of these regions of Southern Rhodesia and is sung when the men go off to Johannesburg to work. The tuning of the Mbira dze chiNdau is: 408, 388, 348, 300, 256, 224, 204 vs. "Out of the way, the motor car is coming! We go past Messina. On the way to Johannesburg. Mohamba's car worries me. Out of the way, you Shangaans." Many men from this Chipinga district go to Johannesburg to work taking Mohamba's lorry which connects with the mine buses to Messina and Johannesburg. Topical song with Mbira dze chiNdau with 3 manuals.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Hauza muteto
- Authors: Teni Maposi (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Johannesburg f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194707 , vital:45483 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR208-04
- Description: This item was recorded in the dance arenaat the consolidated main Reef Gold mine near Johannesburf. The large double bass Timbila (metal drum resonated) makes a full sounded recording. The leader and composer, Teni Maposi, from Regulo Canda's village has for many years been the leader of this mine's Chopi orchestra, over 400 miles from their home district. Other items by the same orchestra led by Teni Maposi at the mine have been published in the 'Music of Africa' series, 'African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines'. At the opening of the item the singers shout in their own language:- "Beer! Beer! we want at the time we want it! Beer!" Orchestral dance with eight Sange (Alto) Timbila, two Chilanzane (Treble) Timbila, one Debiinda (Bass) and two Gulu double bass Timbila and tin rattles (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Hebuya Gaza
- Authors: Manzatu, Pondekane , Ngodo of Zavala , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Quissico, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200393 , vital:46230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-022 , Research no. CR11
- Description: Orchestral dance song for the second Chiriri movement of the Ngodo of Zavala of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Heengisela Nzila Ya Masava
- Authors: Katini, Katinyane , Ngodo of Zavala , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-08
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Quissico, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/200702 , vital:46268 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-022 , Research no. CR15
- Description: Indigenous folk song with timbila xylophones, singing, and intermittent background yodelling, accompanied by rattles. Orchestral dance song for the Chiriri cho Gwitisa movement of the Ngodo of Zavala of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-08
Heleweda Chigubu
- Authors: Ngodo of Kanda , waNgunyuza, Ngunyuzane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-04
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Kanda, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198880 , vital:46044 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-017 , Research no. CO2
- Description: Indigenous folk song with unaccompanied timbila xylophones and singing. Orchestral timbila dance for the Chiriri movement of the Ngodo of Kanda of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-04
Heleweda Chigubu
- Authors: Ngodo of Kanda , waNgunyuza, Ngunyuzane , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-04
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Chopi , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Kanda, Zavala District f-rh
- Language: Chpoi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198889 , vital:46045 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-017 , Research no. CO3
- Description: Indigenous folk song with unaccompanied timbila xylophones and singing. Orchestral timbila dance for the Chiriri movement of the Ngodo of Kanda of 1949.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-04