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Ngoma ya kare II

- Zhanke Masingi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Zhanke Masingi , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1954
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Folk songs, Ndau , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Makulane f-rh
  • Language: Ndau
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181816 , vital:43771 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-14
  • Description: The Mbira is not played from the dance itself, these two tunes being taken from the melodies used by the dancers. The tumbling dance of these Ndau people is very popular at the mines of Johannesburg. The tuning of the Mbira was:- 368, 328, 288, 252, 216, 202, 184 v.s. Dance tune for Mandowa tumbling dance with Mbira dza WaNdau
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  • Date Issued: 1954

Ngalanga 4th movement

- Venancio Mbande and his Timbila players, Tracey, Andrew T N

Title not specified

- Composer Not Specified, Venda Children, Dargie, Dave

Everybody come on let's dance

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Dale mu bele sa

- Muyapala Kpeli, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muyapala Kpeli , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Zande , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande/Bandiya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167409 , vital:41477 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-10
  • Description: Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the performers knees, the neck pointing away from him, the strings in a vertical postition and not horizontal. They do not hold their tuning for long and must be returned before each performance. Long song with vertical, angular Kundi harp of 5 strings. and Andzolo metal hand bells.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Ingaju

- Performer not specified, Hugh Tracey

Sigilai

- Kipsigis girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kipsigis girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177662 , vital:42844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-13
  • Description: This song refers to the man Sigilai who first introduced the Chemonget, one of the Kipsigis lyres. They sing "who brought the Chemonget? Sigilai!" Children anywhere are usually poor subjects for recording and there are no exception. These two items are included to show how small Kipsigis girls perform Both songs show a possibility of school (foreign) influence. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ha ke a ota kenamphane (I am so thin

- Mahehlohonolo Lebesa and Maletsoara Johane and Sotho women, Hugh Tracey

Dance des pygmees batwa

- performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Gbada

- Bandani, Mayogo men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Mtsitso Chivayevaye

- Venancio Mbande and his group of 25 men, Tracey, Andrew T N

Mwana angu ngale (My child Ngale)

- Waziya Bilaimo and Nyundo Katona, Hugh Tracey

Gbalabalatauw iye hihe

- Mbuti men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Effects (Woman smoking a "hubble-hubble" pipe)

- Tonga woman, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tonga woman , 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/10962/138876 , vital:37681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR045-11
  • Description: These pipes are made of calabashes with stems. In the bowl of the calabash a wooden or clay pipe bowl is inserted which contains charcoal and tobacco. The bowl of the calabash is half filled with water, only the women do this, the men prefer to smoke without water. Effects with Ndombondo pipe.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Nya udile

- Raimundu Andreu, Luis Manuel maCanda, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Raimundu Andreu , Luis Manuel maCanda , 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/10962/194192 , vital:45427 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-03
  • Description: The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left hand to stop the string and not the more usual one or two, hence the more interesting meloduc possibilities. The bow is resonated in the open mouth, the palm leaf passing between, but not touching, the parted lips. The musical principal is the same as that of the Jews Harp, a vibrating medium suspended in front of the mouth cavity, the pitch of the notes being controlled by altering the shape of the mouth and throat. The performer is virtually singing silently. "I am weeping because my wife has left me though I still loved her." In this song, the singer says who he is, where he is, and the name of his chief, as well as other remarks. He continued his first song with additional verses in his third item. Tune on Chitende stressed bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Hompa Mughameni Wetu

- Group Composition, Katewa, Silvester, Vihemba, Gertraud OSB, Sambiu Folk, Dargie, Dave

Ndapilibuka

- Mataba, Shef, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mataba, Shef , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1957-07-05
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Broken Hill f-za
  • Language: Lala-Bisa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/236860 , vital:50458 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT469-L90 , Research no. L2L17d
  • Description: A self delectative song accompanied by kankowele mbira, external resonator and mirliton.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957-07-05

Lahiwe indoda (When your husband is throwing you out of his house)

- Group of young Mpondo men and women, Hugh Tracey

Kusekerwa

- Group of Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

  • 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/10962/138008 , vital:37583 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-04
  • Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1957

Teachere washu hoyu u ri funza zwavhudi

- Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by), and Ronald Netshifhefhe (Leader), Children of Tsianda (Performer), Composer unknown

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