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Doreka reka obwenzi

- Martin Zomwe and Ruguru men, Hugh Tracey

Musingasingu yakora egali II

- Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169843 , vital:41830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-10
  • Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Musingasingu yakora egali I

- Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169838 , vital:41829 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-09
  • Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Abagungu

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169914 , vital:41838 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-17
  • Description: The Bagungu people are fishermen and live near the eastern shore of Lake Albert. They are renowned for their cheerful rhythmic dancing with leg rattles. The water lizard skin membranes of their drums make for high quality drumming and clear finger work. The 'Legevans' or iguana are found near the lake shore, they say. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kaburora akaiba muhogo

- Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169901 , vital:41836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-16
  • Description: "Kaburora stale cassava roots from the field." The theft of standing crops was in the old days considered one of the worst forms of theft and was severely punished. The sound of the leg rattles makes a very jolly accompaniment to the simple song. Orunyege dance song for boys and girls, with Ebinyege leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kawairanga

- Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ezekeri Ndamanyire and Nyoro boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169883 , vital:41834 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-14
  • Description: The topical references to this song are most amusing to the audience. One refers to a certain native game guard who is said to have shot a man, buried him in a small hut and vanished into the bush. The police are still looking for him and the people are afraid as he is still at large. Orunyege dance song for boys and girls, with Ebinyege leg rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Muli baripiya

- Paulo Rufundamwarwo and Nyoro boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Ayahangiri abakazi

- Festo Mburabwikyo and Nyoro men and women, Hugh Tracey

Speech

- Rukirabasaija Agutamba Tito, Gafabusa II, C.B.E., Mukama of Bunyoro, Hugh Tracey

Irambi

- Abanyabyata Royal band, leader: Bulasio Araya, Hugh Tracey

Orukobya

- Tito Manyuru and Nyoro men and women, Hugh Tracey

Mukunge Stefano

- Festo Mburabwikyo and Nyoro men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Festo Mburabwikyo and Nyoro men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169865 , vital:41832 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-12
  • Description: Stefano was a policeman. Festo was arrested by him for being in illegal possession of a rifle and he served three months in gaol. Festo bears a grudge against the policeman and made up this song about him. Since poaching elephants for their ivory is a big racket in this district, the loss of a rifle would rankle in the mind of a happy law breaker. Incidentally, the policeman was given, they say, a reward of 400 shillings for arresting the man. Igulya dance song, with ankle gourd rattles and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Omurimo gwangye

- Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170002 , vital:41847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-05
  • Description: Song praising the beauties of their land, the Banyaguru county, with its many crater lakes along the edge of the rift valley, its fresh and its bananas. The style of singing suggested foreign influence although the singers assured us it was indigenous. Patriotic song, used as dance song for boys and girls, with two conical drums, laced, single and a raft rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kurungi Ngweyo

- Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169991 , vital:41846 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-04
  • Description: Song praising the beauties of their land, the Banyaguru county, with its many crater lakes along the edge of the rift valley, its fresh and its bananas. The style of singing suggested foreign influence although the singers assured us it was indigenous. Patriotic song, used as dance song for boys and girls, with two conical drums, laced, single and a raft rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Obw’omugabe Gasyonga II yagwara ekirunga

- Rusania and Nkole, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Rusania and Nkole , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbarara f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169979 , vital:41844 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-03
  • Description: Song sung at the installation of the present (1950) Mugabe as head of all the Ankole. Mugabe Gasyonga II. The manner in which this song is sung gives impression that both the style and the words belong to an era of Hima conquest, when the Nkole first came from the north. Installation of a Chief.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nzaireki akatera empihi

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169934 , vital:41840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
  • Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nzaireki akatera empihi

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169925 , vital:41839 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
  • Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ekizina ky’okuhingera

- Ferezi Bazamu and Nkole girls, Hugh Tracey

Ekizina ky’abaishiri

- Ferezi Bazamu and Nkole girls, Hugh Tracey

Ndamukiza aba Kayanga

- Razaro Begumiza and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

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