Mogalepetla nong tsa noka e kgolo (The Mogalepetla birds live near the great river)
- Authors: Group of 8 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165296 , vital:41230 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-02
- Description: "The Mogalepetla birds live on the banks of a great river. They live along the banks of the river Mayinole." The praises in the middle of this song were for the present Chief, Mokgosi III. Male initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mokema (Name of a place near Maseru)
- Authors: Mamatela Raphuthing and large group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161908 , vital:40689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-12
- Description: "Taung Moletsane's place, my home! If I speak, I shall cause sorrow, some would remember things. And I would be bringing back the dead. Women on the Rand are vagrants, they wear shoes without stockings. You can see our mountains in Basutoland. The hawk which dwells on the cliff at Ramalile catches the chickens when they go out to feed." Mokhibo women's knee dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Monga kobo bohlajana (The owner of the blanket (skin) is wise)
- Authors: Mosinoa Moea and group of 20 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162043 , vital:40751 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-05
- Description: "The owner of the blanket is wise. He does not take it out to be brayed." The cries and shouts during the song were about the work such as 'pull it this way", "put more fat on it", and "if they would bring more beer, we will finish the job", etc. Work song for braying and for threshing.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Monnamogolo (Old man baboon)
- Authors: Dorothy Kgosilentswe and four young girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Disaneng f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Tlharo
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165011 , vital:41194 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-07
- Description: "Have you bewitched me, that you haunt me like this. Old baboon man? Ruthu, Ruthu," Hopping game, girls went backwards and forwards in a circle holding alternately the right and left foot. Singing game.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mora Motlole (Motlole's son)
- Authors: Mahlapane Qoalike and group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Tebang f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161937 , vital:40693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-14
- Description: "Son of Matlole I am a girl who does not like (not fall in love with) uncouth people. Her people's cattle will all die. Goats are all killed by brack deposits. I want ti listen to what my heart tells me and think it over." Mokhibo women's knee dance with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Moroallo oa metsi a pula
- Authors: Ts'oene Toma and young men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161292 , vital:40613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-05
- Description: The melody of this song strongly resembles the songs of the Northern Tanganyikans. "The floods of rain. Ngene, Ngene, the noise of rain. The lightening flashed and then rain came. Makhoabunyane of Mount Katike. When it makes this roaring sound it does it only to annoy. So I took up my stick and went to find out about it. Lengae men's initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Morulantshoana (Something that makes your heart happy)
- Authors: Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165778 , vital:41280 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-01
- Description: The allusion in the title is to the approaching rite of circumcision and is the first song sung on going up to the hills. Three boys initiation song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Motee (Name)
- Authors: Abraham Mudukanele and 18 Hurutshe men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165705 , vital:41273 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-09
- Description: Male initiation song sung on going up into the hills for the period of seclusion during the initiation school.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Motee (The cattle)
- Authors: Botlhe Motswa (c. 60 years old) and 20 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Zeerust f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165882 , vital:41292 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0115-14
- Description: "He-e-e, the cattle, we-e-e! The cattle, we-e-e! The desert, we-e-e! Motee, motee!" Wedding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Motlhala wa Noga (The spoor of a snake)
- Authors: Royal Choristers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kanye f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165259 , vital:41224 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-14
- Description: This group is the Chief's own choir. The chief Bathoen has always been interested in music and has composed several songs for choirs. He possesses a grand piano himself and keeps up a choir at his home, Kanye. He frequently takes his choir by lorry and car around the country to give concerts elsewhere. His style of composition reflects the insititutional type of song which has been popular among students for several years employing the usual common chords. Interest in the folk music of the country having been discouraged by their teachers as socially inferior, this style of singing was intended to take its place among the 'educated'. Concert song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mphe, mphe ea lapisa, Mokoena (A beggar goes hungry, Mokoena)
- Authors: Monki Mofolo and group of 8 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161983 , vital:40744 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-01
- Description: "Mokoena" is a Seboko name meaning "of the crocodile". "A beggar goes hungry. Mokoena, a man of Makoli's household. There is a gun in Letsabisa's house, you will not handle it, you will only handle it when everyone is dead, we Libe's bulldogs, nip each other. Thanks to the word Lekana spoke. Deliver us from temptations, Chief!" Mokorotlo riding song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Mpolelle pitso e kgolo (Tell me of the great meeting)
- Authors: Lentswe Male and 20 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165978 , vital:41303 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-07
- Description: Fighting song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Nama ke gotlole (Stretch your legs)
- Authors: Royal Choristers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165250 , vital:41223 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-13
- Description: "Stretch your legs and I will jump over you." One good turn deserves another. This group is the Chief's own choir. The chief Bathoen has always been interested in music and has composed several songs for choirs. He possesses a grand piano himself and keeps up a choir at his home, Kanye. He frequently takes his choir by lorry and car around the country to give concerts elsewhere. His style of composition reflects the insititutional type of song which has been popular among students for several years employing the usual common chords. Interest in the folk music of the country having been discouraged by their teachers as socially inferior, this style of singing was intended to take its place among the 'educated'. Concert song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Natal koa Boroa Tshukudu
- Authors: Dingalo and group of young boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Gopane f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Hurutshe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165688 , vital:41272 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0114-08
- Description: This song os sung with the accompanying dance, in order to ask the Chief's pernission to go to the initiation school. It seems the young would-be initiates must go to the Chief's house and dance and sing the whole night through. The leader of this group was the Chief's cousin. The boys dance, whilst the girls stand in a row, singing and clapping. The boys all carried long thin wands in their hands and were wearing short loin cloths and leg rattles made of the nests of a variety of wasp which resemble the cacoons of the bag-worm, though somewhat larger. The girls wore short skirts. Both boys and girls were between 15 and 16 years of age. Pre-initiation dance song with leg rattles - "Mathlao".
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ngoana Mosinoa thola (Keep quiet, Mosinoa's child)
- Authors: Mosinoa Moea and group of 20 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162063 , vital:40753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-06
- Description: 'Keep quiet, Mosinoa's child. Mother's child, keep quiet. I like you, I am afraid of you." Work song for braying and for threshing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Ngwana le noga (The child and the big watersnake)
- Authors: Lizi Mulani , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166263 , vital:41344 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-07
- Description: There was once a child who was with other children and met a man who liked her. He asked the child to pull a splinter from his thumb. For that service many cattle appeared magically and the child was asked to choose one. The other children became jealous and when they passed a large hole in the ground they threw her in. There she lived with a big snake. After a while she wanted to go home again and the snake asked if he could twine himself around her. He did so and as she reached her home the snake went back to his hole. The song was sung on the way home:- "When I sing this song, you will know that I am tired and we must rest a while. Story.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Ngwanyana a tima Mosadi-Mogola mosoko (The girl who did not give the old woman food)
- Authors: Gertrude Matlou , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166254 , vital:41343 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-06
- Description: A certain girl cooked food and did not give any to an old woman. Later on the girl went to play. While she was playing she saw a locust which she follwed into the country. Other girls with her got tired, but she went on. The same old woman was out in the bush and she caught the locust and handed it to the girl when she came up, but when the girl tried to accept it, the woman caught hold of her and she began to cry. A man who was nearby heard the cry and came and killed the old woman, took the girl and nursed her wounds. One day the girl went to the river and there met her fatherwho went with her to her rescuer and gave him an ox and then afterwards took her safely home again. Story.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Nkwe e jele Rantshilane (The leopard has eaten Rantshilane)
- Authors: Kebaakantse Dikhudu and group of 20 men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165241 , vital:41222 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0111-12
- Description: "A leopard has eaten Rantshilane. It held him, it ate him. Oh! Mokampa--wee!" The pitches of the 19 flutes were as follows:- 1728, 1568, 1280, 1136, 864, 760, 664, 584, 432, 380, 332, 292, 224, (216)? 194, 172, 144, 108, 98, 84. The pitch of each pipe can be varied by the player both by the position of the lips and tongue over the emboucher and by the force of the wind, especially noticeable in the higher pitched pipes. The general mode adopted can be gauged roughly but few conclusions as to a Tswana pipe scale can be made from this evidence alone. No names other than Tswana numerals were given to the pipes except to that of the leader playing the highest pipe - Mutenyane. Pipe dance with ensemble of 19 "Ditlhaka" flutes.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Noh'a Metsi (Water snake)
- Authors: Agnes Nchanyana. 4 assistants and group of women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161222 , vital:40604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0102-08
- Description: The leader does a shaking dance on her knees as she sings "Water snake! it comes out the east and it is very angry." The singer, in addition to her diviner's beads, shells, bells and small antelope horns, wore a large Catholic rosary with a worn medal of the Sacred heart, knotted into her girdle. Her scarlet skirt was thickly embroidered with designs in white beads. The adoption of Catholic symbols by pagans for their divination rites is common in nominally Catholic countries, especially by Black Africans (originally referred to as Negroes at the time) who use them in their Voodoo ceremonies. Diviners' song with cylindrical drum (-14.03-) and frame drum (-14.92-).
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- Date Issued: 1959
Nong (Vulture)
- Authors: Tlokotsi Lesikara and Mohomane , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161852 , vital:40683 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-07
- Description: Herdboy's tune with whistle and calls to their cattle and their dogs. Self delectative tune on the Lesiba.
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- Date Issued: 1959