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Imirindi

  • Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183634 , vital:44017 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-08
  • Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uruchantege

  • Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183625 , vital:44016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-07
  • Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Uruchantege

  • Authors: Group of Hutu drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Kishuyi f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183644 , vital:44018 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-09
  • Description: The drums are not the normal drums used in Ruanda (Rwanda) but substitutes. The timekeeper was playing on the same head as the leader which is not correct, in the villages each man having his own drum. The click of sticks can consequently be heard as they strike each other. The players were a small informal group of Hutu miners over 600 miles from home working at the Kolwezi Copper Mine. Yet home style drumming was their particular joy and constant recreation. At approximately 3 minutes, they appear to change to the Urukina tatoo. The name of this tatoo was annoinced at the beginning. During the playing the leader broke four sticks one after the other, his friends handing him substitutes. The sticks were only short pieces of wood not the correct spoon headed carved beaters used in ther own country. This tatoo underlines again the fundamental difference of apprach to drumming between the Hima and the Bantu. Although the Hutu speak a Bantu language and are originally of Bantu descent there is widespread intermarriage between them and the Hima overlords, the Tutsi, and the Hima attitude to music and drumming appears to have persisted. Three drum rhythms, three laced conical drums
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Abiiru Drum Rhythms

  • Authors: Team of Abuiiru drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183587 , vital:44011 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-03
  • Description: The whole set of drums should have been conical laced drums of the same shape but varying in pitch. At this time a number of them had been improvised from oil drums, 44 gallon and 8 gallon metal containers. The chief drummer is called-Umwiiro mukuru. The second drummer is called-Uwaura. The timekeeper drummer is called-Ishakwe. The beaters of drum sticks are called-Murisho (s), Imirisho (pl.). The names of the are from treble to bass. Lead drum-(in this case a small bucket drum)-Ishako. 1st drum-Nyahura, 2nd drum-Nterero, 3rd drum-Irubi, 4th drum-Luvugamahame, 5th drum-Chihumurizo. The leader plays his own drum and sometimes the three also on either side of him (4 all told) when setting a rhythm. His second in command also plays his own drum and sometimes one on either side (3 in all). The time setter stands out in front of the line and keeps the time going. This recording was made near a plantation of tall eucalyptus (blue gum) trees and the diffused echo from the boughs and leaves overhead can be clearly heard throughout. Team of Abuiiru drummers, 15 drums, conical, laced and closed, beaten with sticks (-14.22303)
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Bamurangahe

  • Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148704 , vital:38765 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-06
  • Description: Songs for the Intore dancers and their Imihamilizo dance, the traditional Tutsi dance. The opening cadenza by the leading horn player well demonstrates the technique of horn playing. Imihamilizo Tutsi dance songs with Makondera horns (composite) and drum
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Baryaningwe wa Ntwali

  • Authors: Sekivura , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Rugerero f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148773 , vital:38772 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-12
  • Description: Baryaningwe, son of Ntwali. "I, professional thief, I went to a place called Ruagi and stole a cow, but the owner saw me just as I was driving it out. So I was caught. I was taken into a hut and tied up. In my misery, I was asked for an Inanga zither and began to sing. I sang so well that the women and children begged for my release. I was freed but I did not know that my fellow-thieves had gone to tell my family what had happened. So whilst I was singing to all these people my relatives came to my help and my enemies spell-bound by my singing were taken unawares and thus I escaped. Legend. Recitative to instrumental accompaniment with Inanga trough zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Hahirwa Nyiramibambwe

  • Authors: Mirimba Francois, Niyondorera Joseph, Gakombe Alexandre , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148726 , vital:38767 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-08
  • Description: This song, used as a lullaby, is in praise of the present Omwami Mutara's grand mother, and recounts her life, her childhood and girlhood, through its various stages till her death. She was both good and beautiful, say the singers. The queen mother's influence at the courts of the Mwami used to be considerable and was only broken by the Beligian authorities when this lady was banished to Kainembe near lake Kivu in 1931, together with her son Musenga Yushi V who was deposed and banished with her. Praise song
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Ikizire

Ikobe

Imihigo

  • Authors: Tutsi man , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148717 , vital:38766 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-07
  • Description: The performer, a Tutsi man, recounts imaginary exploits to amuse the chief. A common custom amongst the Tutsi who have competitions of this sort in order to decide which is the most gifted narrator. An interesting recording for linguists. The recitation is introduced by a short praise cry by the people standing nearby. Recitation
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Ingaju

Inkuru nziza

  • Authors: Ndengabaganzi Leonard , Rwagasana Michel , Ewagirumukiza Donatien , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Rwanda , Tutsi (African people) , Hutu (African people) , Batwa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Rwanda Nyanza f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183615 , vital:44015 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR181-06
  • Description: Chant in honour of St. Mary Magdalen and the resurrection of our Lord. This unaccompanied hymn was composed by a Tutsi who was studying for the priesthood. Abbe Alfred by name. This man was also a notable musician. His proper name was Sebakiga. This song demonstrates the ease with which the particular style of indegenous singing found in Ruanda (Rwanda) can be readily adapted for Catholic use. Whether this will result in confusion or in a deeper appreciation of the basic folk music of the Tutsi remains to be seen. As elsewhere in Africa the danger lies in he non-musical social pressures exerted by the missions. Catholic chant
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Inyamibwa

Kyarutema

  • Authors: Twa musicians of Chief Biniga , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Shangugu f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148699 , vital:38764 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-05
  • Description: Songs for the Intore dancers and their Imihamilizo dance, the traditional Tutsi dance. The opening cadenza by the leading horn player well demonstrates the technique of horn playing. Imihamilizo Tutsi dance songs with Makondera horns (composite) and drum
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Lama

Murengerongoma

  • Authors: Mihambari and Rwanda girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Kinyarwanda--Rwanda , Folk dance music , Tutsi (African people) , Africa Rwanda Gihini f-rw
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148745 , vital:38770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR057-10
  • Description: Murengerongoma was a man all of whose children except one, were taken by lions. So the people came and helped him gather firewood and do all household tasks, when they had done this, he danced for them to show his gratitude. Wedding song with hand clapping
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  • Date Issued: 1952

Nimuze tugweragwere

Tarihinda

Umuhororo

Urwintwari

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