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Ngondo

- Haya men of Bukoba District, Mjuju Kashengereire, Tracey, Hugh

Ngondo

- Mjuju Kashengereire with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

Nimboroga

- 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/10962/169733 , vital:41793 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0132-14
  • Description: The Ekidongo harp is a pleasing instrument in the hands of an expert. This man Eriya Bakwasa is a professional minstrel who makes his livelihood by singing songs. "I weep" he sings "because I am poor", a theme very popular among mendicant musicians. Self delectative song with Ekidongo eight string harp.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nimboroga

- 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/10962/295892 , vital:57388 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP1918-XYZ5349
  • Description: Indigenous music
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nimboroga

- Eriya Bakwasa, performer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ninkutina

- Kabyoma Mashuloma, Haya men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ninkutina

- Kabyoma Mashulamo with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Nkete

- Eliazale Kazinduki, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eliazale Kazinduki , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukoba f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171700 , vital:42113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-02
  • Description: These horns, Makondere, are made of horn and of calabash gourds combined, bound together with skin (mostly cows tail) to keep the joints tight. They are cut open across the small end where a finger hole makes two notes possible on each horn. The mouthpiece is cut rectangularly on the side of the horn near the small end. These Makondere horn bands are now played upon special occasions at the chief's place. In the old days, they say, they were played after fighting when they came to report to the chief how they had fared. Victory song, after fighting with Makondere side blown horns, 1 conical laced drum (-14.22303-), 1 cylindrical, footed, pegged drum (14.01101-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkete

- Makondwe Band, Performer not specified, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nkingulila ngende

- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171899 , vital:42136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-01
  • Description: The fishermen haul in their nets onto the shore and call to each other instructions and encoragement. Lake Victoria is called Nyanja by the Haya people. "Open the door and let me out, I want to go to the village beyond." The singing of the fishermen as they go fishing out on the lake at night is a feature of the district. Their voices can be heard for miles across the quiet waters of the lake in behind the islands which protect their bay. They used a drum, they said, to help their singing as normally they would beat the gunwale of their canoe with the paddles. Fishing song, with conical laced drum beaten with sticks and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkulagilienye omwaitu

- Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

Nkurukumbi

- Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women, Hugh Tracey

Ntajemerwa

- Kihuka and Ntajemerwa (Royal drummers), Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kihuka and Ntajemerwa (Royal drummers) , 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/10962/169760 , vital:41820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-01
  • Description: This set of drums is played when there is a special ceremonial gathering such as the opening of the Bunyoro Council, or on the first day of the new moon. It may also be played at other times. The royal Hima houses of Uganda are all drum minded, with special drums exclusively associated with royalty and royal occasions. Drum rhythm, with four conical drums, laced, closed, played with sticks, and two long stemmed Goblet drums, open, pinned, footed.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ntimbo, Kwebembera Omukama

- Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Yohana Nyakayonga with Ntimbo Royal drummers , 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/10962/169793 , vital:41824 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-04
  • Description: Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves. Way of 'piping' the Mukama with four Ntimbo drums, footed, pinned, open, and Nsegu end blown vertical flutes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nyamwanga obuyaza Buganda

- Ncoko, Nkole men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nyamwanga obuyaza Buganda

- Samuiri Rwakifunzi and Nkole men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Rwakifunzi 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/10962/170092 , vital:41857 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0134-14
  • Description: Nyamwanga was a Hima king of Ankole who used to raid the Ganda people of the lake districts before 1890 when the English took over the Protectorate. The rattles are flat containers made of stout grasses inside which wild canna seeds are thrown to and fro. They are held flat between the palms while the fingers may tap the lower side to enhance the main pulses or to syncopate the rhythm. Ekitagururo dance song, with conical drums, laced, single, played with sticks, and three earthenware pots and raft rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nyamwiza omurongo

- Laurenti Kamwabwa with Haya boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Nyegera

- Nyakato Mwaga with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera, Hugh Tracey

Nyegera

- Nyakato mwaga, Haya women of Bukoba District, composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nzaireki akatera empihi

- Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Samuiri Bitadwa and Nyoro men , 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/10962/169934 , vital:41840 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-18
  • Description: Nzaireki is held up to ridicule for being a glutton. He ate far too much and was sick all night. Enough, in Bunyoro, as elsewhere, is as good as a feast. The drum and rattles perform in a rhythm typical of much of Bantu Africa. Orunyege dance song for men and women with Ebinyege leg rattles and Goblet drum long stem pegged open.
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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