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Batwala bafe

- Ssaza Chief Kago, Danieri Seruwaniko, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Batwala bafe (They take our husband)

- Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • 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/10962/170858 , vital:41970 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-02
  • Description: This tune was composed and played when the Kabaka Mwanga II was exiled. The longest note of the xylophone was 35 inches and the shortest 24 inches, the average widith of each note was 3 and a half in. A servant of the chief placed himself at one end of the instrument to put his hand in under the notes and slide back into place any note which began to slip. The scale was:- 464, 396. 360, 308, 264, 232 v.s. 464 and 232 representing the third and eighth notes on this instrument. All the others in corresponding octaves. Instrumental tune, with 1 Madinda xylophone, 12 loose notes, supported on banana stalks.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Bijja bisamba endege

- Evaristo N. Muyinda, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bu

- Muliama Namale and Ganda people, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Muliama Namale and Ganda people , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • 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/10962/170896 , vital:41980 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-06
  • Description: In 1949 there was a disturbance in Uganda caused by a group of people known as "Bu". In the singers opinion they should not have been arrested as they caused no damage and carried no weapons. She was at the the coronation of the Kabaka (king) and saw the preliminary ceremonies, she sings. The "Bu" it was suggested was shrot for 'Buganda' and the Ganda people.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Bwemba nkwagala nkugamba

- Ssaza Chief Kago, Danieri Seruwaniko, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Bwemba nkwagala nkugamba (I tell you when I love you)

- Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • 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/10962/170874 , vital:41972 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-04
  • Description: The longest note of the xylophone was 35 inches and the shortest 24 inches, the average widith of each note was 3 and a half in. A servant of the chief placed himself at one end of the instrument to put his hand in under the notes and slide back into place any note which began to slip. The scale was:- 464, 396. 360, 308, 264, 232 v.s. 464 and 232 representing the third and eighth notes on this instrument. All the others in corresponding octaves. Instrumental tune, with 1 Madinda xylophone, 12 loose notes, supported on banana stalks.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Ekibuga ekigya Bamunanika

- Abadongo ba Kabaka from the Lubiri Palace, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ekyuma (A piece of iron, The roundabout)

- Temusewo Mukasa, Hugh Tracey

Embwayange enno zzaya

- Chrisesitomu Gingo, Abudu senjobe, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Embwayange enno zzaya

- Chrisesitomu Gingo, Abudu Senjobe, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Enguli

- Edward, Seruwagi, Performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Enguli

- Abadongo Abaganda, Performer not specified, Kasasa, J, Tracey, Hugh

Enguli

- William Semogole, Lafairi Morindwa, Cristof Sebabi and Yuan Wiswa, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Enjala etekya ezala minene

- Ludovico Mugerwa, Ganda Women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Enjala etekya ezala minene

- Ludovico Mugerwa and Ganda women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ludovico Mugerwa and Ganda women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • 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/10962/171085 , vital:42017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0139-10
  • Description: "Famine leads to disaster." or "Where there is famine there is trouble." The Ganda audiences particulary appreciate a fluent singer the more so if he can play a drum or other instrument while singing as this man Mugerwa is doing. Topical song, with 1 tall, cylindrical, open and pinned drum, 1 large conical laced drum (-14.22301-) and hand clapping (-12.03-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Envubuterindwa buziba

- Madinda ga Kabaka xylophone players of the Lubiri Palace, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Eriso ly'omwana

- Edward, Seruwagi, Performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ganga

- Temusewo Mukasa, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ganga

- Temusewo Mukasa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Temusewo Mukasa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • 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/10962/170932 , vital:41986 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-10
  • Description: The story, of Ganga, one of a previous Kabaka's palace guards who 'stole some meat' and had the first joints of his fingers cutt off with a knife by one of the Kabaka's daughters. This brilliant singer is well known in Buganda. The clarity both of his singing and playing on the harp is delightful. Song with horizontal, arched, 8 stringed harp.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1952

Ganga alula

- Evaristo N. Muyinda, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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