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Tangu kwata m'cembele

A-a-ye nanga omwale (Aaye! what about Omwale)

  • Authors: Women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158936 , vital:40242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-12
  • Description: Dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. The song consists mostly of references to the names of local persons. Such as OMwale, Ojere, OPhiri etc., each with the tonorific prefix 'O'. The equivalent of the English "Mister". Dance tune with bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Onani ndenge yokwela masula (Look at the aeroplane)

Ai lelo kwa Masula kotokoto (Today at Masula, sickness)

Tate o mwale de

Koko

Mulungu analenga Adamu ndi Eva

Mbeta

Malaya

Koko

Citawala. 2nd movement

  • Authors: Benson Phiri , Chewa men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187236 , vital:44588 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-02
  • Description: "Men and women, together with the chief, you have come here to see the clever dancers. We come from towns where we sing like church organs." Melody for the 2nd movement. There are two movements in the Muganda dance, the second is performed with drums only and without the Malipenga gourds. Muganda dance, with 1 Bass drum (rubber beaters), I small bass drum (stick beaters) and Malipenga singing gourds with mirliton (-11.14-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mungabe

Che Bula

Ana amuna (Young men ought to put on grey trousers)

A Yotamu amati andimange

Chinyau

  • Authors: Chewa men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-20
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211013 , vital:47567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT167-D28.1 , Research no. DV12b
  • Description: Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1950-05-20

Malaya

Wapita lero kalindabwinja

Timuke nanu oiya

  • Authors: Khwele Kwenda , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186523 , vital:44508 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-11
  • Description: The Sansi was fixed onto the Chigubu resonator by three point suspensions, 2 at the straining bar and 1 at the foot, all secured by bark string. The Njela (s. and pl.) reeds were made from the spokes of an umbrella and the player said that in times past the reeds used to be made of bamboo. "Although I am so quiet, Mother, I still have many troubles because of my poverty." Simple song by a man who earns part of his living by playing and singing as one of his feet is affected by leprosy and he can do no other work. Self delectative song, with Sansi mbira
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  • Date Issued: 1950

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