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Wathi wa mbebe

  • Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • 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/10962/175824 , vital:42627 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-01
  • Description: This lute is peculiar to the district. The stick which forms the neck of the lute is pierced right through the gourd body, protruding about 5" on the opposite side. The single string is attached to the tip of this end, passes over the membrane on the gourd and a bridge (which is also made from pieces of gourd and is attached by means of a short piece of wire to avoid losing it when the instrument is slackened off after playing) and is attached at the end to a short fork in the stick which effectively prevents slipping. It is played by means of a short bow with sisal fibre. Topical song with Mbebe string lute.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Musenga

Wathi Wa Mwita Mwendwa

Wathi wa Ngethi

Wathi wa Ngethi

Wathi wa ota

Muvingi

Muyola Mbwelwe

Usingi

Kyaa

Kaloi

  • Authors: Waliaula, Maunda , Bukusu men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-11
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nairobi f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230399 , vital:49774 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2415 , XYZ5478
  • Description: Heroic song with Litungu lyre and luhingele inverted bowl
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  • Date Issued: 1950-09-11

Nalung'unyo

  • Authors: Waliaula, Maunda , Bukusu men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-09-11
  • Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Nairobi f-ke
  • Language: Kamba
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/230404 , vital:49775 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2415 , XYZ5479
  • Description: Topical song with Litungu lyre and luhingele inverted bowl
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  • Date Issued: 1950-09-11

Kamwhino wa Mwikya

  • 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/10962/175851 , vital:42630 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-04
  • Description: The singer sings to his lost love. He reminds her that he loved her even before she grew up. He had asked her to speak to him, but she refused and used to speak to another. 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

Kawimo wa Mwikya

Kawino wa Mwikya

Kilamu

Kilamu

Kilamu

Kumania

Kumania

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