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
- 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
Nkulagilienye omwaitu
- Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172556 , vital:42219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-09
- Description: A very simple song in which the chorus clap their hands turning them over, left over right, right over left, alternately. Katikomurweya Katisha dance songs for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum and clapping (-12.03).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172556 , vital:42219 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-09
- Description: A very simple song in which the chorus clap their hands turning them over, left over right, right over left, alternately. Katikomurweya Katisha dance songs for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum and clapping (-12.03).
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- Date Issued: 1950
Kuhiga
- Haya men and Jason the Chief's hunting dog, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Haya men and Jason the Chief's hunting dog , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171963 , vital:42143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-08
- Description: This was a very cheerful demonstration of a hunting party with the sound of the bells which are attached to the dogs' collars of plaited leather. The dog, Jason, which belonged to the Chief Gabriel Lugabandana, joined in the recording with a right good will, and enjoyed the hunting cries by the men as they pretended to go otter hunting in the wooded marshes in the valleys near the lake. Hunting cry and song with bells and hunting horn.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Haya men and Jason the Chief's hunting dog , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171963 , vital:42143 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-08
- Description: This was a very cheerful demonstration of a hunting party with the sound of the bells which are attached to the dogs' collars of plaited leather. The dog, Jason, which belonged to the Chief Gabriel Lugabandana, joined in the recording with a right good will, and enjoyed the hunting cries by the men as they pretended to go otter hunting in the wooded marshes in the valleys near the lake. Hunting cry and song with bells and hunting horn.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Rwabazira
- Mahibo and Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mahibo and Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamukuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170254 , vital:41874 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-05
- Description: This praise, which both begins and ends with song, are frequently recited by men at parties. The subject of their adulation may be their host, their cattle or any subject gratifying their senses. Adulation of elders is part of the sycophantic social system common to many tribes and especially cattle owners. The practise of interspersing spoken praises between song is also found among the Sotho of Basutoland. The word Engabo means literally a brave man and these praises were originally intended to praise fighting men. Nowadays woth no fighting to be done the praises have been extended to any gratification and particularly of the 'Pombe' banana beer. Engabo praise, with conical drum. laced, single, played with hands and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mahibo and Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamukuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170254 , vital:41874 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-05
- Description: This praise, which both begins and ends with song, are frequently recited by men at parties. The subject of their adulation may be their host, their cattle or any subject gratifying their senses. Adulation of elders is part of the sycophantic social system common to many tribes and especially cattle owners. The practise of interspersing spoken praises between song is also found among the Sotho of Basutoland. The word Engabo means literally a brave man and these praises were originally intended to praise fighting men. Nowadays woth no fighting to be done the praises have been extended to any gratification and particularly of the 'Pombe' banana beer. Engabo praise, with conical drum. laced, single, played with hands and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Topima
- Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171981 , vital:42145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-10
- Description: "Why do you dislike me? I would like you to be a good friend of mine." A man had a friend an they fell out, so he sang to his friend to weigh up their differences, to measure them up and forget about them, or agree to differ. Topical song with laced conical drum and clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171981 , vital:42145 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-10
- Description: "Why do you dislike me? I would like you to be a good friend of mine." A man had a friend an they fell out, so he sang to his friend to weigh up their differences, to measure them up and forget about them, or agree to differ. Topical song with laced conical drum and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Enjangu
- Eliasi Karuandila with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Eliasi Karuandila with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172074 , vital:42157 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-16
- Description: How the cat became a domestic animal. The chattering of villagers can be heard in the background. Story with song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Eliasi Karuandila with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172074 , vital:42157 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-16
- Description: How the cat became a domestic animal. The chattering of villagers can be heard in the background. Story with song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mathereza
- Luhanga Magezi with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Luhanga Magezi with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Rurongo f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171815 , vital:42128 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-12
- Description: The lute is made of a 4 and a half inch section of the lower part of an Ankole ox horn. These cattle have very large horns. The oval shaped membrane is python skin pegged into the horn and the bridge is reed. The string is of raffia palm. "My love, Thereza you come from a good family. I love you so much." Love song, with Ndingidi one string lute.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Luhanga Magezi with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Rurongo f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171815 , vital:42128 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-12
- Description: The lute is made of a 4 and a half inch section of the lower part of an Ankole ox horn. These cattle have very large horns. The oval shaped membrane is python skin pegged into the horn and the bridge is reed. The string is of raffia palm. "My love, Thereza you come from a good family. I love you so much." Love song, with Ndingidi one string lute.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Rukidi
- Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers , 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/10962/169693 , vital:41789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-10
- Description: The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform special functions, one of which was to play early in the morning to waken the chief's household. This duty was performed in the past by the Ntimbo drummers of the Mukama of Bunyoro. "Our Mukama who speaks with the clouds the most learned and wise Mukama, who has been to England." Ntimbo praise song with four Ntimbo Goblet drums, pinned, open, ling stem and small foot. For holding under the arm (not for standing).
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers , 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/10962/169693 , vital:41789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-10
- Description: The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform special functions, one of which was to play early in the morning to waken the chief's household. This duty was performed in the past by the Ntimbo drummers of the Mukama of Bunyoro. "Our Mukama who speaks with the clouds the most learned and wise Mukama, who has been to England." Ntimbo praise song with four Ntimbo Goblet drums, pinned, open, ling stem and small foot. For holding under the arm (not for standing).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Ente za Kanyororo Abateza
- Authors: Nyamukuru , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamukuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170216 , vital:41870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-02
- Description: In praise of Kanyororo's cattle, of which he was the herdsman. The herd was called "Abateza", and because it was so strinkingly beautiful to the beholder it would make him shade his eyes and stumble away after looking at them. Praise chant.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nyamukuru , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kamukuzi f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170216 , vital:41870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-02
- Description: In praise of Kanyororo's cattle, of which he was the herdsman. The herd was called "Abateza", and because it was so strinkingly beautiful to the beholder it would make him shade his eyes and stumble away after looking at them. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Mugasha 3
- Habib Bin Seliman, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172359 , vital:42192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-14
- Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
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- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Habib Bin Seliman , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172359 , vital:42192 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-14
- Description: The singer was word perfect throughout the whole recitation. He tells the locally well known legend of the Lake Victoria Nyanza. He is credited with being the best legend reciter in all the Haya country. Before Mugasha was born he is said to have threatened his mother that unless he was born quickly he would come out of the side of the womb. The instrument had to be returned before the end of the legend, as one or two strings were slightly flat. It was originally recorded in five sections. The Legend of spirit of the Lake, with Nanga trough Zither.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Naba aninduga Kilanja
- Felisiano Karungula with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Felisiano Karungula with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba / Bibanga f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171788 , vital:42125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-09
- Description: "On my way back from Kihanja I met that famous girl Felista. She was very beautiful yet she had no husband." On first hearing , this style of singing would appear to have an Arabic or Swahili origin, but this is denied by the singers. Love song with 1 conical laced drum, beaten by sticks, clapping (-12.03-), 1 Nyimba gourd rattle (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Felisiano Karungula with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba / Bibanga f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171788 , vital:42125 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-09
- Description: "On my way back from Kihanja I met that famous girl Felista. She was very beautiful yet she had no husband." On first hearing , this style of singing would appear to have an Arabic or Swahili origin, but this is denied by the singers. Love song with 1 conical laced drum, beaten by sticks, clapping (-12.03-), 1 Nyimba gourd rattle (-12.54-).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nimboroga
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169733 , vital:41793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-14
- Description: The Ekidongo harp is a pleasing instrument in the hands of an expert. This man Eriya Bakwasa is a professional minstrel who makes his livelihood by singing songs. "I weep" he sings "because I am poor", a theme very popular among mendicant musicians. Self delectative song with Ekidongo eight string harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , 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/10962/169733 , vital:41793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-14
- Description: The Ekidongo harp is a pleasing instrument in the hands of an expert. This man Eriya Bakwasa is a professional minstrel who makes his livelihood by singing songs. "I weep" he sings "because I am poor", a theme very popular among mendicant musicians. Self delectative song with Ekidongo eight string harp.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Nyegera
- Nyakato Mwaga with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Nyakato Mwaga with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171770 , vital:42123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-07
- Description: Song to be sung during the wedding procession of the bride and bridegroom. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Nyakato Mwaga with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171770 , vital:42123 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-07
- Description: Song to be sung during the wedding procession of the bride and bridegroom. Wedding song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Omukazi owajumire embuzi
- Authors: Amosi Bitanako , 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/10962/170286 , vital:41879 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-09
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Amosi Bitanako , 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/10962/170286 , vital:41879 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0135-09
- Description: The first story is about a man who was born and grew up inside a hard stonelike skin. It was not until a beautiful girl agreed to marry him that his stoney casing fell away. Story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Bateme Makonge
- Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171972 , vital:42144 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-09
- Description: "Cut down the trees at Makonge farm." This farm was originally the property of a German farmer. The singer urges his friends to co-operate in this job of cutting the trees. It was also a gesture to retrieve the land from foreign occupation as they say that 'the one who plants trees owns the land'. Topical song with laced conical drum and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Kabale / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171972 , vital:42144 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-09
- Description: "Cut down the trees at Makonge farm." This farm was originally the property of a German farmer. The singer urges his friends to co-operate in this job of cutting the trees. It was also a gesture to retrieve the land from foreign occupation as they say that 'the one who plants trees owns the land'. Topical song with laced conical drum and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kaheru
- Tibamwenda with Toro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Tibamwenda with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170382 , vital:41915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-02
- Description: Kaheru was well known in the Bulahya district, all the more so because he was the unfortunate person who was injured by stones during blasting operations when the road to Bwamba was being constructed. Everyone was sad about it as Kaheru was a specially good dancer of Mateguru. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Tibamwenda with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170382 , vital:41915 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-02
- Description: Kaheru was well known in the Bulahya district, all the more so because he was the unfortunate person who was injured by stones during blasting operations when the road to Bwamba was being constructed. Everyone was sad about it as Kaheru was a specially good dancer of Mateguru. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Muyaga (Parts 1-4)
- Addalla Feza Ibraim, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Addalla Feza Ibraim , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172491 , vital:42209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-02
- Description: The lake in this legend is Nyanja, Lake Victoria, the great central African lake. The Haya people live on the south western shore of the lake in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika and are well known as fishermen plying their calling in sewn plank canoes. "There was once a Chief's young wife, Mirembe who did not love the man to whom she had married by her father and she fell in love with the handsome son of another chief, whose name was Kitungi. She called to Kitungi to come to her like the wind over the lake. A recitative Legend, with Nanga trough zither, 7 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Addalla Feza Ibraim , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172491 , vital:42209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-02
- Description: The lake in this legend is Nyanja, Lake Victoria, the great central African lake. The Haya people live on the south western shore of the lake in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika and are well known as fishermen plying their calling in sewn plank canoes. "There was once a Chief's young wife, Mirembe who did not love the man to whom she had married by her father and she fell in love with the handsome son of another chief, whose name was Kitungi. She called to Kitungi to come to her like the wind over the lake. A recitative Legend, with Nanga trough zither, 7 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Batele bwankya
- Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172580 , vital:42223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-10
- Description: A very simple song in which the chorus clap their hands turning them over, left over right, right over left, alternately. Katikomurweya Katisha dance songs for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum and clapping (-12.03).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Bukoba f-tz
- Language: Nyoro , Haya
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172580 , vital:42223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-10
- Description: A very simple song in which the chorus clap their hands turning them over, left over right, right over left, alternately. Katikomurweya Katisha dance songs for men and women, with metal cylindrical drum and clapping (-12.03).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Okuturukya Omukama
- Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , 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/10962/169784 , vital:41823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-03
- Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , 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/10962/169784 , vital:41823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-03
- Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Kotabijuba
- Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Stephen Kaholya 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/10962/169742 , vital:41794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-15
- Description: The subjects of these short dance songs, such as this, they say, may be lazy people who do not weed their gardens or banana plantations or those who drink too much banana beer. The eight horn blowers stand in a row with the women opposite them while the dancers strut in between. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Stephen Kaholya 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/10962/169742 , vital:41794 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-15
- Description: The subjects of these short dance songs, such as this, they say, may be lazy people who do not weed their gardens or banana plantations or those who drink too much banana beer. The eight horn blowers stand in a row with the women opposite them while the dancers strut in between. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950