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Kyuma

- Entenga, Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • 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.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mudondo

- Nasuti Social Club, Tracey, Hugh

Mutimba

- Abadongo ba Kabaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Abadongo ba Kabaka , 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/10962/170655 , vital:41946 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-07
  • Description: Mutimba was a famous local football player and the song says "Mutimba thank you for the game." Association football has acquired a great hold on most African tribes, the Ganda being as keen as any, praising their own football players in song as they would have praised fighting men in the past. Topical song with 6 Ndingidi lutes, 2 Ndere nothched flutes, 2 Endongo lyres.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

N Bangaire

- Nasuti Social Club, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nandikulamude

- Madinda ga Kababa, xylophone players of the Lubili palace, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Madinda ga Kababa, xylophone players of the Lubili palace , 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/10962/170682 , vital:41949 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-10
  • Description: Tune based upon a traditional song. "I warn you that I have no power over the grave, now you are dead." Both this instrument and the other xylophone at the Lubili (palace) had been brought in from different parts of the country. They were both slightly out of the tune, it was said. The shape of the individual notes was interesting having two lugs protruding from the lower side to prevent the note from jumping out of place over the two banana stalk supports. The notes are kept in place laterally by their wands about 3 feet long which are sharpened and stuck into the soft stalks between each slat. 1248, 1120, 928, 832, 728, 624, 560, 464, 416, 364, 312, 280, 232, 208, 182, 156, 140. Instrumental tunes, with Madinda 17 note xylophone, loose notes on banana stalks, 3 players.
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Ngomba nyo okuwulira

- Namirembe Cathedral Choir, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ngomba nyo okuwulira

- Namirembe Cathedral Choir, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Njagala Keyanda

- Wali, Twamuna, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Njagala Keyanda

- Abdallah, Sulume, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Njagala kugenda a

- Ali H Wachibi, Ganda men and women, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nsiriba ya munange katego

- Entenga, Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Okusaba

- Namirembe Cathedral Choir, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Okuzanyira

- Abalere ba Kabaka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Abalere ba Kabaka , 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/10962/170594 , vital:41939 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0137-01
  • Description: This song was sung to warn the young Kabaka (the native king of Uganda) against taking risks on the Lake Victoria by going out in canoes which might easily overturn and drown him. He very much enjoyed going out onto the lake and his people were becoming enxious as they confirmed royalists and feared for the succession. Song for the Kabaka with 3 Ndere flutes, end blown, notched, open, I cylindrical drum, pinned, (-14.01201-), 3 conical drums, laced, played with hands. (-14.22301-).
  • Full Text: false
  • Date Issued: 1950

Omusango gwa balere

- Royal Drummers, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omusango gwa balere

- Entenga, Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • 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

Onuna

- Namirembe Cathedral Choir, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Onusumba Wonye

- Namirembe Cathedral Choir, Dhola Men and Women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Otenderezebwe

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

Oyagala nkole ntua (What do you want me to do)

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

  • Authors: Ssaza Chief Kago and his nephew, Danieri Seruwaniko , 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/10962/170849 , vital:41969 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0138-01
  • 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: 1950

Selengeti Nyanda

- Ganda People, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

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