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Amen Siyakubonga

- Church music composition participants, Mpotulo, Lambert, Dargie, Dave

Anyilongo (A mere quarrel)

- Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Atuwendi kumanzi ntwende kumulonga tukateke menda (Go to the river, go to draw water.Let us get water)

- Timoti Sadimbi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Timoti Sadimbi , 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/10962/138117 , vital:37595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-16
  • Description: Timoti wet the flute with water first before playing. These flutes, they say, are played in January and February, and finished in March, during the time when they start to eat the new season's summer crop of mealies. They are played in the field. The flute is played with the fingers of the right hand palm turned inwards and is held in thus hand only. Flute tune for harvest with Mutetule usibgwa transverse reed flute x 3, open at far end.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Chepchoni marinda

- Akito Arap Yeko (Performer), Akito Arap Yeko (Composer)

  • Authors: Akito Arap Yeko (Performer) , Akito Arap Yeko (Composer)
  • Subjects: Praise song , Indigenous folk music , Kipukandet six stringed wishbone lyre (pentatonic) , Kapsabet , Kenya
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15364 , MOA27-10 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017669 , MOA27
  • Description: Praise song by Akito Arap Yeko, accompanied by kipukandet six stringed wishbone lyre , This recording is held at the International Library of African Music. For further information contact ilamlibrary@ru.ac.za , This recording was digitised by the International Library of African Music , Original format: 15ips reel , Equipment used in digitisation: Studer B 67 Tape Recorder; Nagra III , Software: Sound Forge V.6 , Sample rate: 44100Hz 16Bit Stereo
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Chibudu left hand 1979

- Venancio Mbande and his Timbila orchestra group, Tracey, Andrew T N

Chitewetewe

- Dibeyoane waChiginyana, Tracey, Hugh

Chitewetewe

- Chopi timbila players of Mavila village, Mbewami, Dibeuana waChiginyane, Tracey, Hugh

Fambisai

- Rapisoni Shungiaro Moyo, performer not soecified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Hugh Tracey memorial service

- Andrew Tracey (Speaker), Tracey, Andrew T N

  • Authors: Andrew Tracey (Speaker) , Tracey, Andrew T N
  • Date: 1977
  • Subjects: Tracey, Hugh , Memorial service , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Saronde Farm f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112616 , vital:33626 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC129a-05
  • Description: Andrew Tracey the son reiterating his father's and family close relationship with Daniel Mabuto and Tshabalala and made a significant note to the Tshabalala family and those gathered for memorial service that Tshabalala died exactly a year ago on 23 October 1976 before his father Hugh Tracey who passed away 22 October 1977
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  • Date Issued: 1977

Iyo-o-u-o

- Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168183 , vital:41549 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-05
  • Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Wedding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Iyo-o-u-o

- Mambuti Pygmy Women, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Jo nnana jo

- Botha, Karika (Recorded by), Sesotho creche children (Performer), Composer unknown

Kalunga Tate otwe ku pandura, iyaloo

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Justianus, Rosvindis, Dargie, Dave

Kgatso ya Modimo

- Church music workshop participants, Skosana, J., Dargie, Dave

Kiere

- Music workshop participants, Group composition, Dargie, Dave

Kitungule Changu

- Mzee Juma with Shiraz Men, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Kitungule changu

- Mzee Juma with Shirazi men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mzee Juma with Shirazi 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/10962/179965 , vital:43279 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR171-10
  • Description: "My onion."Like the French who sometimes call their lovers "little cabbage" the Swahili also frequently refer to their beloved as a vegetable such as an 'onion', or 'corn con' or other food studd. Most instruments of this kind are brought to the island of Zanzibar by migrant labourers. It was known what tribal orign the Kidebe may have had. Ndebe dance song with Kidebe Mbira and Kayambi tin rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kyrie

- Composer Not Specified, Church Choir, Dargie, Dave

Mai ndatombwa

- Vitoria Chirere, women at Gunda village, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mai-o-da

- Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mosis, Magdalena, and Terasa (Mambuti women) , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Songs, Swahili , Mbuti (African people) , Swahili-speaking peoples , Pygmies , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Mbau-Mbili f-cg
  • Language: Congo Swahili
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168169 , vital:41547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0125-03
  • Description: These songs were sung by three very small pygmy women all crouching on the ground close together. Their songs, it is said, asre composed mostly of vowel sounds or very simple words without much attempt to form a lyric. They were clothed only in a small strip of cloth each strung between the legs with each supported by a waist band of bark string. Each had a single string of beads around the neck and black markings were painted on their faces and necks. These songs, they said,could also be used as lullabies. At the end of the second and third items the bleat of a goat kid can be heard. Song after fishing.
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  • Date Issued: 1952
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