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Kuwe kuwe ngoma

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

Kwa ambuya asina keriya

- Muchabaiwa and two others, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180637 , vital:43595 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-06
  • Description: "You must bring your mother-in-law a present on your bicycle carrier when you go to see her, or she will be angry." Towards the end of the second tune the bow player can be heard whistling out of the side of his mouth. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Madebura

- Dudzai Sigauke, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dudzai Sigauke , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180725 , vital:43607 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-15
  • Description: "I play on my kness because I am bound. I cannot do it any more. Changamire (Chief). You come out showing the marks. Like the marks of scorching on your legs." the mouth resonated harmonics can be clearly heard in this recording. Self delectative tune with friction bow, mouth resonated, and rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Mai vandoswere piko

- Muchabaiwa and two others, Hugh Tracey

Mai wa Aruna (Mother of Aruna)

- James Gwezhe Soko, Hugh Tracey

Matye rupanga (Fear of the knife)

- Manyika Highlanders (group of singers at St. Augustine's Mission, Penhalonga), Hugh Tracey

Munandi

- Dudzai Sigauke, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Dudzai Sigauke , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180749 , vital:43610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-16
  • Description: "Dance gently so that your breasts do not drop. You, from heaven, what do they talk about there? They talk about the punishment for theft." It appears that the player had recently been in gaol for theft. The mouth resonated harmonics can be clearly heard in this recording. Self delectative tune with friction bow, mouth resonated, and rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Murombo

- Raimon Jaket, Hugh Tracey

Ndagado kufa

- Muchaenda Sigauke with Ndau men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchaenda Sigauke with Ndau men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180758 , vital:43611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-17
  • Description: 'I nearly died." A typical threshing song which will keep the team of threshers wprking for long s[ells at a time. The yodeling is also typical of the music of the eastern and central parts of Southern Rhodesia. The Garwe clan lives halfway betwenn the Manyika and the WaNdau in the Melsetter district. The Ndau call them "Manyika" and the Manyika call them "Ndau". Threshing song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Ndiripo

- Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men, Hugh Tracey

Pfeni nengoma

- Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181688 , vital:43758 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-01
  • Description: There was a man who had the brilliant idea of putting a pole across the path by which a baboon entered his fields, and a drum on the far side. The baboon leaping over the pole landed on the drum and did a back somersault over the pole again. The sound so delighted the baboon that he went on leaning and back somersaulting until he died of exhaustion. Story with song.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Pi mcinanga

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180672 , vital:43600 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-09
  • Description: It was a time of famine and the chief had collected a heap of flying ants which were put out to dry on a rock. He ordered the people to look after this precious food. The people told him that a small buck came and took the ants. So the chief went down to see for himself. While he was there the small buck came along and sang to the chief at the rock, eating up the ants as he sang. The people were so delighted and enchanted that they sang the chorus for the buck while he ate up the ants in front of their eyes until all the ants were finished. Story song, with 2 rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Samondoza iwe

- Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Melsetter f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181697 , vital:43759 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR176-02
  • Description: This dance is usually performed by both men and girls. It is a good example of the simple dance song and rhythmic clapping which accompany the solo stampings performed in the centre of the circle of dancers by individuals who come into the ring one at a time for this purpose. This rhythm and song was adapted by Andrew Tracey for the musical show "Wait a Minim" in January-December 1962. Dance song for the Chiturirano dance with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Shangara ye kwa Nyamweda

- Muchabaiwa and two others, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180659 , vital:43597 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-08
  • Description: The Shangara dance at Nyamweda. There they brewed beer at their mother-in-law's. The mother-in-law made beer for her new son-in-law and they danced the Shangara dance. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Shangara ye kwa Nyamweda

- Muchabaiwa and two others, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muchabaiwa and two others , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Marandellas f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180661 , vital:43598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-08
  • Description: The Shangara dance at Nyamweda. There they brewed beer at their mother-in-law's. The mother-in-law made beer for her new son-in-law and they danced the Shangara dance. The performer of the mouth bow sometimes resonates the harmonics out of the side of the mouth and sometimes whistles without taking the bow from his mouth. Self delectative song, with Chipendani musical bow, mouth resonated
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Shoko woye

- Muchaenda Sigauke and Ndau men, Hugh Tracey

Shumba (The liar)

- James Gwezhe Soko, Hugh Tracey

Terera Machangwa

- Mukomondera Moyo, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mukomondera Moyo , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Shona (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181576 , vital:43748 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR175-16
  • Description: The otes were produced by the peerformer drawing his breath in past tha Ilala string of the bow, forming the notes at the same time with the fingers of his left hand. The Machangwa they said was a small kind of jackal found along the streams. The singer was blind. Self delectative song with Chizambi friction bow.
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  • Date Issued: 1951

Tiende Serukwe

- unknown, Hugh Tracey

Tsuro woye

- Teachers Training College, Penhalonga, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Teachers Training College, Penhalonga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1951
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Shona (African people) , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Zimbabwe , Africa Zimbabwe Goromonze f-rh
  • Language: Shona
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/180690 , vital:43602 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR170-11
  • Description: A woman gave her child to a rabbit to look after, but the rabbit ran away with it. She put a pumpkin in her cloth on her back in order to decieve her husband. He was not decieved. So she sang a song to the rabbit. "Rabbit, rabbit! the sun is setting fast like a river in flood." The rabbit eventually brought the child back, when it was tired of playing with the child. Story song, with 2 rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1951
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