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Aroyiwa mwana

- Saini Madera and group, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1965
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Sena , Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195234 , vital:45543 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-02
Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1965

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Kana mano

- Saini Madera and group, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1965
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Sena , Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195274 , vital:45547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-06
Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1965

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Kari muchipfuwa

- Saini Madera and group, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1965
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Sena , Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195261 , vital:45546 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-05
Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1965

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Msengu

- Saini Madera and group, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1965
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Sena , Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195256 , vital:45545 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-04
Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1965

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Rega kurakana bza dzuro

- Saini Madera and group, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1965
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Sena , Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195239 , vital:45544 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-03
Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1965

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Siti, musikana akanaka

- Saini Madera and group, Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
Date: 1965
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Sena , Tonga
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195229 , vital:45542 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-01
Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1965

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Endai kwenyu watonga, usare machinda (Go away home Watonga, leaving the sons of Chiefs)

- S. Murira, C. Madzikuminga, Z. Muzengedza and S. Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: S. Murira, C. Madzikuminga, Z. Muzengedza and S. Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179155 , vital:39868 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-10
Description: This item is based upon well known and traditional melody of the region which has changed little, if al all, in the last thirty years when first recorded by me (Hugh Tracey), the only distinguishable difference merely reflecting the relative ability of the various players. This style of playing and the type of Mbira used, the Madebe dza Mondoro, are common both to the Sena/Tonga tribe and the Budya clan of the Korekore tribe in the Mtoko district who live further west. Party song with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira) and Murumbi drum.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Kari muchipfuwa kanaziwa ne mwene wako (What is in your heart only yourself can tell)

- Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179105 , vital:39866 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-08
Description: The great volume of sound mabe by the Matebe inside their resonators of large gourds gives a grand impression of what it is like to play in a band of this nature. Party song with three Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira and Murumbi drum).
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Mbiya ambwiya wo tiende (Grandmother, let us go)

- Jesi Tembo, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Jesi Tembo , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179081 , vital:39872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-14
Description: A hyena's grandmother died and so he went off to suckle from a woman in order to show people that he was in reality the son of the woman. The meaning of this story is not clear, though it is among the many African stories in which people turn themselves or are turned into animals to stress a moral point. Story song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Murumi wakaenda ku Harari (The man who went to Harari (Salsibury))

- Tonga married women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Tonga married women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179134 , vital:39871 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-13
Description: The story concerns a husband who went off to work at Harari (Salisbury) and spent three years there. But when he came back he only brought to his wife an empty sack or a hat or just paper only, or a mouse skin, or a mole. In factnothing of value at all! Story song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Njenjenje

- Madzimbone and younf Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Madzimbone and younf Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179199 , vital:39870 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-12
Description: The leader was an old woman and the chorus a number of young married women. Party song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Ririka-ririka rerera-ririka (When I die what shall I leave behind)

- Young Tonga women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179210 , vital:39869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-11
Description: A song sung after supper in the evening. Party song.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Waramba ukuma (He refused the relationship)

- Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Murira, Madzikuminga, Muzengedza and Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1959
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179072 , vital:39867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-09
Description: "You refused friendship, Machinda. You refused friendship, it is worn out." Machinda was the title given to the sons of the Monomotapa and may well have come down from those days in the sixteenth century when the Monomotapa held sway over this part of what is now Southern Rhodesia. Party song with three Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira and Murumbi drum).
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1959

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Ai-ye! Nzara yakabora (Ai-ye! Famine has come)

- Young Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young Tonga men and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179125 , vital:39861 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-05
Description: The reed pipe players both sang and blowed their pipes alternately each having a distinct part in the complex whole. This recording omitted the usual drum accompaniment for clarity's sake only. Gororombe dance with 4 sets of end blown pipes, rattles and drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Kore kore

- Younf Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Younf Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179190 , vital:39860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-04
Description: The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open cylindrical drum 14" tall on three legs with 10" head; 3) Miningo karipi-karipi, another conical open drum 25' tall with 9 and 4 quarter head; and a small closed drum, Usindi, 11" tall with 7 and a half head, on a three legged pedestal. The player of the two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, used his right heel to raise and lower the pitch of the Jenje as it lay on the ground beside the longer Mutumba, playing only with his hands. The other two players used sticks. The reeds were imported from the Salisbury district as no such reed grows in this district, they say, except in the Mazoe river nine miles away which was not so good as these. Four sets of end blown flutes (--11,325--). (1) 3 tied together. Katero, pitch 784, 744 and 680 vs (4 and a half" - 5") (2) 3 tied together. Shauriro, 680, 600, 552 vs (5 and a quarter , 6 and a quarter) (3) 2 tied together. Dendera, 504 and 448 vs (7", 7 and a half") (4) 2 tied together. Madobi, 416, 384 vs. (8 and a half, 8 and 3 quarters). Gororambe dance with end blown pipes, drums and rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Musengu

- Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155127 , vital:39857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-01
Description: The leader starts the tune the second part coming in at 15 seconds, and the third at 27 seconds. Yodelling of this nature is typical of many South Rhodesian folk tunes. The drum comes in at 1m. 27s. and the drummer hits the body of the drum as well as the membrane. Mondoro song for ancestral rites with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira) and a drum.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Ngoma dze ngororombe

- Sani Madera, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Sani Madera , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179245 , vital:39864 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-07
Description: This remarkably efficient syncopating drummer gives a brilliant display on two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, accompanied by a ground played on Usindi and Karipi-Karipi. The player of the latter was blind. For details of the drums see TR085-03 and TR085-04. Drum rhythms with 4 drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Nyamulosa chimbo cha Gotosa (The song Gotosa, the Mondoro)

- Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Murira, Madzikununga, Muzengedza and Madero , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155136 , vital:39858 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-02
Description: Gotosa is said to be the Mondoro spirit of Mkota. Watengera Shawa of Chief Mtize's village is the maker of the instruments. Mondoro song for ancestral rites with 3 Matebe dza Mondoro (Mbira) and a drum.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Tsuro Wa siye mwana (The rabbit has left its child)

- Young Tonga men and girls, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Young Tonga men and girls , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179177 , vital:39862 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-06
Description: This item was recorded to demonstrate the way the drums fitted into the scheme of the Gororombe dance. The raising and lowering of the pitch of the Jenje drum with the heel of the player can be clearly heard. Gororombe dance with 4 sets of end blown pipes, rattles and drums.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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Wamwira mangarangara (If you drink too quickly you get yourself drunk)

- Younf Tonga men and women, Hugh Tracey

Authors: Younf Tonga men and women , Hugh Tracey
Date: 1958
Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Sena (African people) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia f-rh
Language: Tonga/Sena
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179094 , vital:39859 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR085-03
Description: The four drums used were 1) Mutumba, an open conical drum 37" tall, 11" membrane; 2) Jenje, an open cylindrical drum 14" tall on three legs with 10" head; 3) Miningo karipi-karipi, another conical open drum 25' tall with 9 and 4 quarter head; and a small closed drum, Usindi, 11" tall with 7 and a half head, on a three legged pedestal. The player of the two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, used his right heel to raise and lower the pitch of the Jenje as it lay on the ground beside the longer Mutumba, playing only with his hands. The other two players used sticks. The reeds were imported from the Salisbury district as no such reed grows in this district, they say, except in the Mazoe river nine miles away which was not so good as these. Four sets of end blown flutes (--11,325--). (1) 3 tied together. Katero, pitch 784, 744 and 680 vs (4 and a half" - 5") (2) 3 tied together. Shauriro, 680, 600, 552 vs (5 and a quarter , 6 and a quarter) (3) 2 tied together. Dendera, 504 and 448 vs (7", 7 and a half") (4) 2 tied together. Madobi, 416, 384 vs. (8 and a half, 8 and 3 quarters). Gororambe dance with end blown pipes, drums and rattles.
Full Text: false
Date Issued: 1958

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