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Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
Language: Ganda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170709 , vital:41952 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-13
Description: This drum tune is taken from a song about a simple country lad who wanted to go and work for the Kabaka (the native 'King' of Uganda) as his servant and yet to remain faithful to his obligations both to his family and his ancestral ties at home. The set of royal Entenga drums are kept and played in a separate courtyard of the Lubili palace. In this recording the separate parts are brought out one after the other. Each drummer plays his allotted drums from the treble player down to the deep bass player while the others continue to strike the side of their drums with their beaters. The first four men play 3 drums each. The fifth plays one drum, and the sixth plays the two deepest toned bass drums. Drum tune. Set of 15 tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
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Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
Language: Ganda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170700 , vital:41951 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-12
Description: At the time when cotton was first introduced into Uganda (largely by the efforts of an indsutrial missionary, Mr. K. Borup, from 1903 onwards) a friend of Mr. Borup came to stay with him from England and brought with him the idea of erecting a roundabout. It was such a novelty that this song "Kyuma" was composed about it. The set of royal Entenga drums are kept and played in a separate courtyard of the Lubili palace. In this recording the separate parts are brought out one after the other. Each drummer plays his allotted drums from the treble player down to the deep bass player while the others continue to strike the side of their drums with their beaters. The first four men play 3 drums each. The fifth plays one drum, and the sixth plays the two deepest toned bass drums. Drum tune. Set of 15 tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
Language: Ganda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170728 , vital:41954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-15
Description: The story behind this tune is about a certain 'Saza' chief named Kangawo who wore as a charm a headband. He would wear it all day and at night hang it up on the wall of his hut. One night the headband was stolen and he soon died without his protective charm. Six drummers play these 15 drums. Four the main set of 12 drums, and two others the three bass drums. The melody of the tune is well brought out both at the beginning and the end of the performance. Drum tunes. Set of 15 Entenga tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

Authors: Entenga, Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1950
Subjects: Music--Uganda , Folk songs, Ganda , Ganda (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kampala f-ug
Language: Ganda
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170719 , vital:41953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-14
Description: One of the royal bands, the flautist, failed upon a certain occasion in their musical duties at the Kabaka's Lubili (palace). They were condemned to death but they pleaded with the Kabaka for leniency as the people of the village from which they came, Bira, had once saved the Kabaka's son, a service which had in the first instance earned them the honour of becoming the royal flautists. The Kabaka (King) forgave them and set them free. This story is the subject of the lyre behind the drum tune here presented. Six drummers play these 15 drums. Four the main set of 12 drums, and two others the three bass drums. The melody of the tune is well brought out both at the beginning and the end of the performance. Drum tunes. Set of 15 Entenga tuned conical drums, laced, closed, single.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1950

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