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1st Movement "Msitso wo Khata"

- Katini we Nyamombe (Leader), Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Katini we Nyamombe (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1943
  • 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/10962/194824 , vital:45499 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR209-01
  • Description: This is the first Chopi Ngodo ever recorded and published. It is described in my book "Chopi Muscians" Oxford University Press. The recordings were taken on glass based acetate discs in November 1943 and copied onto tape in October 1963. With the exception of a few verses omitted from one or two of the lyrics this version, performed away from home in the broadcasting studios of SABC Durban, Natal, is the same as a village performance but without the dancers. The players themselves sang all the words which are normally sung by the dancers. As there were no dance routines to be completed during the performance, each item is rather shorter than it would have been in the home village. With these minor exceptions the Ngodo is the complete work; all of it the composition of its leader Katini, a leading figure in Chopi music for 40 years. He died in 1948 about 60 years old. Orchestral dance with six Timbila xylophones.
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  • Date Issued: 1943

A m'bwalo (Unmarried boys)

- Small girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Small girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Ncheu f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160061 , vital:40377 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR096-10
  • Description: The boys go around at night in a group to tease the girls by standing outside their huts, pulling out their sleeping mats and generally making nuisances of themselves, so it was explained. "Unmarried boys "teka-teka" they break the mats. They mock and they do not get fat. Shaking the mats. We will report them to the elders, for breaking our mats." Girls song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Alume yerani malo

- Kanga Mayele with Giryama men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kanga Mayele with Giryama men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Giryama (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Malindi f-ke
  • Language: Giryama
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176603 , vital:42719 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR162-10
  • Description: The singer calls to those behind to hurry and catch up with the dance team as they are going to a big dance competition. This item is a fascinating example of the authentic 2 against 3 African cross rhythm. Msego dance song for men and women with Kayamba raft rattles and clapping (-12.03-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Alume Yerani Malo

- Kanga Mayele and Giryama men, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Alume yerani malo

- Mayele, Kenga, Giryama men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Azungu musinjilo

- Eliya Chaya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185276 , vital:44360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-06
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Bantu bendawo yam

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Chibudu 1979

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

Drum message

- Kasadi Celestine, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kasadi Celestine , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Slit drums , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Kandakanda f-cg
  • Language: Kanyoka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134440 , vital:37151 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0020-01
  • Description: The message sent out on this occasion was to call people to come and dance. The Chondo slit drum was made from a hollowed log through a slit, with a rectangular hole at each extremity of the slit. The drum, or gong, is rested on a circular insulation pad as the whole instrument vibrates after the fashion of a xylophone note and the sound would be deadened if it rested directly on the ground. Message calling people together with Chondo slit drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Hugh Tracey memorial service

- Radio program of words and music (Calendar: presentor), Kathleen David (Producer and Compiler), Tracey, Andrew T N

Lipwami lyaliswangawantu

- Mugabe with Hehe men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mugabe with Hehe men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Chaga (African people) , Hehe (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Kilolo f-tz
  • Language: Hehe
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175031 , vital:42532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR157-10
  • Description: "Hunger makes you feel week." Song for hoeing in the fields. This part of Tanganyika is up on the Southern highlands away from the heat of the valleys. The ground is poor and the rainfall only moderate, the last two seasons 1948-50 were both affected by drought. Work song (agricultural).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Lipwani Lyaliswangawantu

- Mugabe with Hehe men, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mabandla Chibayibayi

- Shalati, Tracey, Andrew T N

Maboko a Kgosi (Praises for Chief Masibi)

- Andrew Morothoco, Hugh Tracey

Mr Music

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Mtsitso wo Khata

- Katini we Nyamombe and five players (Performer), Katini we Nyamombe (Composer)

  • Authors: Katini we Nyamombe and five players (Performer) , Katini we Nyamombe (Composer)
  • Subjects: Orchestral dance , Indigenous folk music , Timbila xylophones , Zavala District , Sul do Save Province , Mozambique
  • Type: Sound , Music
  • Identifier: vital:15443 , MOA31-14 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017749 , MOA31
  • Description: English translation of title: 'First orchestral introduction' , The first Mzeno orchestral movement from the Ngodo of Zavala, Katini we Nyamombe 1943 , Orchestral dance tune by Katini we Nyamombe and five players, with 6 timbila xylophones , 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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Mukadzi unoerei-ko? (What is your surname)

- Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tichainda Mudyanadzo and Lunita Zimbwa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Folk songs, Shona , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Albert Mission, Gutu Reserve, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
  • Language: Shona, Karanga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154667 , vital:39762 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR082-20
  • Description: Sorry, sorry, sorry. What is the woman's surname? My surname is this child. The legs are burnt with the porcupine. What kind of 'mungu' is that, another? I have lost, I have burnt my child. Call his aunt. His aunt where is she? She digs in the chief's garden. Lift the deep voice, we pass. We will come out at Chanembe. Chanembe where there are girls. Who stab each other with knives. The spears are buried under ground . Please give us those spears. We will stab the big tree trunk. The big tree trunk, where is it? It is at the pool of Buuro. What did you give to Buuro? We gave him that little drum there. How does it sound? 'Ti-ndi-ngu!' Hippo in the pool. Where is the owner of the pool? He has gone to pick fruit. We will eat it at our home. Etc., etc.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Mukadzi unoirei-ko

- Mudyanadzo, Tichainda, Zimbwa, Lunita, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ndala ya Magweni i a vhavha

- Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by), Tshivhase, Luvhengo (Performer), Mabilu, Petros (Performer), Mabilu, Petros (Composer)

Ngondo

- Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by), Shonisani, Nelson (Performer), Composer unknown

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