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Omubanda

- Matesaiwe and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Matesaiwe and Nkole men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bushenyi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170117 , vital:41860 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-16
  • Description: The flute (Omubanda. s. Emibanda. pl.) is a notched flute, end blown onto a V shaped notch cut into the end of the open pipe. There are four finger holes in two pairs. These flutes usually accompany the chief country dance the Ekitagururo, a very simple rhythm. The clay poys, which cannot be distinguished in this recording are played by striking the orifice of the pot with a flat beater made of banana frond or leaf. Emibanda flute duet, with two conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, three clay pots, (Enyungu), rattles and two end blown notched flutes (Emibanda).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Omugere

- Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women, Hugh Tracey

Omukazi owajumire embuzi

- Amosi Bitanako, Hugh Tracey

Omukazi owazaire enkirungu

- Amosi Bitanako, Hugh Tracey

Omukazi owazaire enkurungu

- Amosi Bitamako, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omukazi owazaire enkurungu

- Amosi Bitanako, performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omukazi owazumire embuzi

- Amosi Bitamako, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omukungu nakanyagwe

- Eriya Bakwasa, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omukungu nakanyagwe

- Eriya Bakwasa, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eriya Bakwasa , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Hoima f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169620 , vital:41777 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-04
  • Description: Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings about a local sub-chief Umukunga, the Gambololo of Buhimba. During the 1939-45 war he was asked to recruit men for the army but all he sent to the Kings African Rifles was his own brother. "What a shame" the old man sings, "we should have done better than that.". The harp is made of a simple oval shaped wooden bowl with skins laced onto top and bottom. The arch of the keys is a stout carved stick in which the 8 pegs are inserted for tightening the strings. The tuning of the harp is as follows:- 322, 284, 240, 180, 161, 142, 120 vs. Topical song with Ekidongo eight string horizontal harp.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Omukungu nakonyagwe

- Bakwasa, Eriya, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Bakwasa, Eriya , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda city not specified f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/295686 , vital:57369 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1913-XYZ5345
  • Description: Indigenous music
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Omurimo gwangye

- Feresia Binoberwa, Ruguru girls, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Omurimo gwangye

- Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Fersia Binoberwa with Ruguru girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Rubirizi f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170002 , vital:41847 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-05
  • Description: Song praising the beauties of their land, the Banyaguru county, with its many crater lakes along the edge of the rift valley, its fresh and its bananas. The style of singing suggested foreign influence although the singers assured us it was indigenous. Patriotic song, used as dance song for boys and girls, with two conical drums, laced, single and a raft rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Orukobya

- Tito Manyuru, Nyoro men and women of Bunyoro District, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Orukobya

- Tito Manyuru and Nyoro men and women, Hugh Tracey

Orukobya

- Tito Manyuru, Nyoro men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Owa Kalema

- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Owangye n'omunyero omu Kongo

- Razaro Kyamanwanga, Nkole men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Owangye n’omunyoro omu Kongo

- Razaro Begumiza and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

Rukidi

- Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga, and Ntimbo Royal drummers , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kikali f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169693 , vital:41789 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-10
  • Description: The greater African chiefs would, in the old days, always have their court musicians to perform special functions, one of which was to play early in the morning to waken the chief's household. This duty was performed in the past by the Ntimbo drummers of the Mukama of Bunyoro. "Our Mukama who speaks with the clouds the most learned and wise Mukama, who has been to England." Ntimbo praise song with four Ntimbo Goblet drums, pinned, open, ling stem and small foot. For holding under the arm (not for standing).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Rukidi

- Ntimbo Royal Drummers, Nyakayonga, Yohana, Tracey, Hugh

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