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Wathi wa mwita mwendwa

- Munyithya wa Kyenze, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175856 , vital:42631 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-05
  • Description: "I love you so Munanie, I do not know where I am. If a man is hated by the Kamba many bad things may be said about him. But it does not matter if they turn your heart from me, you will still come to my hut.". The singer uses his lute as a rhythmic rather than a melodic instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the two basic notes of his lute, but the interval may bear some constant relationship which is not discernable to a foreign ear at first hearing. On the other hand the lute may be considered as a two note 'drone' to the melody. It will be noticed that the pitch of his lute slightly lower in this and the next song "Musenga." Love song, with Mbebe, one string, bowed lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wathi wa mwita mwendwa

- Munyithya wa Kyenze, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wathi wa mwita mwendwa

- Munyithya wa Kyenze, Tracey, Hugh

Wathi wa Ngethi

- Kanyense Muange, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wathi wa Ngethi

- Kanyense Muange, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kanyense Muange , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175986 , vital:42650 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-13
  • Description: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wathi wa Ota

- Mutio wa Katuma, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Mutio wa Katuma , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya city not specified f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/300379 , vital:57926 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2128-XYZ5574
  • Description: Indigenous music
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wathi wa Ota

- Mutio wa Katuma, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wathi wa ota

- Mutio wa Katuma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mutio wa Katuma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175889 , vital:42635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-07
  • Description: This musical bow is a plain bow, loosely strung and strained by means of a half section gourd, which is situated between the bow and the wire string. The concave side is held against the bow, the convex against the string. The singer sings into this hollow gourd and beats the string with a light stick producing one note only. Other players may beat both segments of the string thus producing two fundamental notes Divination song, with musical bow, strained and resonated with half gourd.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wavina Nindo wose murkalage mumanyile

- Malaika Chedego, Gogo women and men, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wavina Nindo wose mwikalage mumanyile

- Malaika Chedega with Gogo men and women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malaika Chedega with Gogo men and women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Gogo (African people) , Songs, Gogo , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania Dodoma f-tz
  • Language: Gogo
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174300 , vital:42464 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR155-07
  • Description: "You dancers of Nindo, be ready and strengthen your lines. Our enemies are coming to fight us." A song praising the young men in such a way as to produce national solidarity. The stamping dance with the rhythms enhanced by the sound of the leg bells is a most effective display both in sight and sound. Nindo praise song with stamping (-12.4-), Ndwala bells (-12.55-), horn and whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Waya, waya

- Sanyenke Gethula, Sukuma men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Waya, waya

- Sanyenke Gethula with Sukuma men, Hugh Tracey

We buru nolimatenda

- Gondwe, E.M, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Webemba mt0to washio matata

- Losta Abelo, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wena buti lalela

- Bulawayo Sweet Rythms, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wena buti wena lalela

- Bulawayo Sweet Rythms, I. Msekiwa, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wenayu sanje

- Mwale, Maluba, Tongo men, Tracey, Hugh

Wenayu Sanje

- Mwale, M, Tonga People, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Wenayu sanje

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184635 , vital:44243 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-08
  • Description: A story about the wives of a certain man who are jealous of the attentions paid to the others. The balance of this recording gives too much preference to the simple one stringed lute, but at the same time emphasises the utter simplicity of the accompaniment to which songs of this kind are sung by Tonga people. Humorous song with Karigo one stringed lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Wenayu sanje

- Maluba Mwale with Tonga men, performer not specified, Maluba Mwale, Tracey, Hugh

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