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Katuiyo

Katuiyo I

  • Authors: Kipterer Arap Kenik with Kipsigis me and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177772 , vital:42871 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-01
  • Description: A song sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The first version is unaccompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes the names of various boys and girls who have met each other at the dance. This happy coincidence is made use of friends greeting each other at the dance. Dance song for men unaccompanied.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Katuiyo II

  • Authors: Charondet Arap Ng'asura with Kipsigis men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177781 , vital:42872 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-02
  • Description: A song sung on the same day and at the same place but with different leaders. The song is unaccompanied by a Chepkongo lyre. Katuiyo was the name of the man who introduced this kind of dancing. His name also means a 'meeting place' and the lyric includes the names of various boys and girls who have met each other at the dance. This happy coincidence is made use of friends greeting each other at the dance. Dance song for men and women with Chepkongo 6 string bowl lyre, laced.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kin anyone en Arap Nairobi

  • Authors: Chebitet Arap Muina , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177703 , vital:42849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-15
  • Description: The song describes a donkey's complaint. It was brought from Nairobi, it says, when it was much fatter. Unlike lucky men. it does not recieve money as wages but only maize. "Don't bother me but leave me alone" says the donkey. The Chepkseem is a wishbone shaped instrument, virtually the two arms and yoke of the lyre but without the usual resonating bowl. The tuning was:- 316, 268, 240, 220, 188 vs. Arap Towett was the name of the Kipsigis interpreter who translated all his peoples songs for us. Topical song, with Chepkesem 5 string frame lyre (external resonator - petrol tin).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kin anyone en orap Nairobi

Kin anyone orap Nairobi

Kongoi Maitoling

  • Authors: Cherondet Arap Ng'asura , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Sotik f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177381 , vital:42816 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-01
  • Description: A love song in which English words, 'my darling' have been transmogrified into Kipsigis "maitoling" He also calls her little 'calf', a term of great endearment in a pastoral such as these. The singer starts with whistling. The instrument on which this is played is a Chepkongo six string lyre, with one string removed in order to turn it into a five string Kibungandet which uses a different pentatonic scale. Love song with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre and whistling.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Kongoi Maitoling

Kongoi Maitoling

Naiyioro

  • Authors: Kipterer Arap Kenik with Kipsigis men and girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177790 , vital:42874 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR166-03
  • Description: The words of the song are largely meaningless, or of old poetic usage and do not lend themselves to translation but perform their useful fuction as vehicles of a dance tune. As it was raining hard at the time of recording we could not see the dance in action. The dance song was recorded under the thatched roof of a shed. Dance song for men and women with whistles.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Naiyioro

Naiyioro

Nitiren notera

Nitiren Notera

Oronet

  • Authors: Hat Arap Kotut and Kipsigis men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177593 , vital:42836 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-06
  • Description: This song were sung in the old days after raiding parties when the Kipsigis would go out to steal cattle of neighbouring tribes. The men singing these songs held tall, well made assegais of Masai type, and wore large ostrich feather head-dresses, oval in shape like collars, suspended from chin to the tip of the head at an oblique anglw. It was raining hard at the time and the songs had to be recorded in a thatched shed which did not help the singers and somewhat dampened their voices. Old fighting song.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Oronet

Oronet

Sebei bekyibei

Sebei bekyibei

  • Authors: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik and Cheriro Arap Korogoren , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Kipsigis (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Kapkatet f-ke
  • Language: Kipsigis
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177629 , vital:42841 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR165-10
  • Description: This is a lament at parting with friends, in which the English word 'Sorry' (now adopted as their own by Kipsigis) predominates. As one of them said "It is a misery giving song". The effect of the song was rather spoiled by one of the young men who took it upon himself to show off during the recording. Lament with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre, laced.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Sebei Bekyibei

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