Ngaka
- Authors: Seven Pedi women and 1 old man with 2 drums and a rattle , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189168 , vital:44823 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-09
- Description: An old man took te part of the diviner or soothsayer, the Ngaka. Divining or guessing game with 2 drums and a rattle
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- Date Issued: 1963
Msumeto. 9th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Banguza , Jao Nemba Mboteya (Leader) , Matauli Chitombe , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Banguza f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/191423 , vital:45096 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR200-04
- Description: A line of young girls including those who had danced their "Chingomani" dance during the morning moved up to the orchestra behind the line of men when they moved forward. This very short Msumetso was by way of being a skit on the impression left upon them by Portuguese music and military words of command, the dancers performing various typical actions of soilders being drilled with Kutokozela cries. The retreat, with preliminary cries. Orchestral dance with 16 Timbila xylophones - 2 Chilanzane (Treble), 8 Sange (Alto), 2 Doli (Tenor), 2 Debiinda (Bass), 2 Gulu (Double Bass) and 4 Njele rattles.
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- Date Issued: 1963
E lesang goloya
- Authors: Group of 10 young Pedi initiates (girls) , Four Pedi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189141 , vital:44820 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR195-06
- Description: Sung by the girls after the initiation ceremonies are over. They dress up in skins and wear small mirrors and go about among the houses and people, dancing and asking for presents. The initiation school lasts for two months and follows much the same lines as those of the Tswana. Many young Africans from Kenya southwards use metal whistles for their dances, blowing them continously as in this item; the result is deafening to the audience but apparently most enjoyable to the young who seem to be impervious to the noise. "Stop bewitching people. Kerishe is gone." Kerishe is the name of a man who was driven away from Thabakgolo because it was thought that he disturbed (bewitched) people. Three girls post-initiation song with 2 drums, leg rattles and whistles
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- Date Issued: 1963
Msitso Kugwitisa. 11th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Canda , Chipendani Guyuza (Leader) , Hanyane Waini , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Canda f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193089 , vital:45297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR203-06
- Description: This movement was led by Faifiani Faife. The name of this man means 'The little five of five'. His father had taken the English numerical '5' as a name and so his son was called 'Small Five' or 'Five Junior', but his surname being taken from that of his father, and not an old 'Mituno' name was........ (missing words). Orchestral dance with 22 Timbila xylophones, 6 Chilanzane (Treble), 5 Sange (Alto), 5 Doli (Tenor), 3 Debiinda (Bass), 3 Gulu (Double Bass).
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- Date Issued: 1963
Tata wawu osi wana
- Authors: Emmelina Zavala , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193217 , vital:45310 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-06
- Description: "Can you see how I suffer?" This was said to be a married women's lament. Lament with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Joo tsaka
- Authors: Raimundu Andreu , Luis Manuel maCanda , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Canda f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194202 , vital:45428 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-04
- Description: The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left hand to stop the string and not the more usual one or two, hence the more interesting meloduc possibilities. The bow is resonated in the open mouth, the palm leaf passing between, but not touching, the parted lips. The musical principal is the same as that of the Jews Harp, a vibrating medium suspended in front of the mouth cavity, the pitch of the notes being controlled by altering the shape of the mouth and throat. The performer is virtually singing silently. "I am happy because my wife has come back." Tune on Chitende stressed bow.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Woyahahai zhembulane
- Authors: Maria Taime , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193226 , vital:45311 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-07
- Description: The song is addressed to a girl of easy virture. The singer adds at the end of the song that she is the daughter of Taime (Time) Regulo Zavala. Morality song with clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Wangu mwama wome
- Authors: Timoses, Comecado des Amigos , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Tonga language (Inhambane) , Folk dance music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maxixe f-mz
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189670 , vital:44919 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR196-11
- Description: The pace of the dance quickens until the pelvic girations of the dancers become a rapid quiveringing. Makarito dance, with 5 singing horns, 1 bass small drum, 2 small drums. 1 small bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Sibewu
- Authors: Mapulana men and women (Madika initiated young men and women) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188002 , vital:44716 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-02
- Description: All the people moving anti-clockwise around the three drums. The opening of the Sibewa movement illustrates the method of starting a pipe dance and the difficulty they experience in the initial fitting in of the various pipe parts. Once the third player came in, in between the other two, the music came alive and all joined in with a will. "Up there where we were born, the mealies are finished so we will eat wheat. Up there where we carry baskets the mealies are finished and we will eat corn." Initiation song and pipe dance, with 4 metal pipes and 3 drums Moropa o muyana and Moropa o mkula, 1 bushbuck horn and 1 kudu horn
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- Date Issued: 1963
Hambokami kota mova
- Authors: Tabarirevu Muyambo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Folk songs, Ndau , Chopi (African people) , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Mwanditura f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194266 , vital:45438 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-11
- Description: This song is generally known among the people of these regions of Southern Rhodesia and is sung when the men go off to Johannesburg to work. The tuning of the Mbira dze chiNdau is: 408, 388, 348, 300, 256, 224, 204 vs. "Out of the way, the motor car is coming! We go past Messina. On the way to Johannesburg. Mohamba's car worries me. Out of the way, you Shangaans." Many men from this Chipinga district go to Johannesburg to work taking Mohamba's lorry which connects with the mine buses to Messina and Johannesburg. Topical song with Mbira dze chiNdau with 3 manuals.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Eya - eya, mani Boi
- Authors: Mapulana small boys and girls (under 12 years) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Pedi (African people) , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bushbuck Ridge f-sa
- Language: Pedi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/188434 , vital:44753 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR194-08
- Description: Simple songs sung in the evening after food. The pitch rises throughout the song, a common phenomenon in many African songs. Children's song with 2 drums and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ndazwa ngengoma kurira
- Authors: Tabarirevu Muyambo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Folk songs, Ndau , Chopi (African people) , Ndau (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Mwanditura f-mz
- Language: Ndau
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194423 , vital:45447 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-15
- Description: This is the favourite song of Leonard Simango, the carpenter, who is heard singing it at any time of the day as he works. Even if he starts to sing another song it will not be long before he comes back to this one again. :I heard the sound of drumming. I heard the drum saying 'Guduru'. I heard the sound of the drums, they must be there!" Song for Mashawi souls with Mbira dze chiNdau.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Mzeno
- Authors: Ngodo of Regulo Kenge , Venacio Mbande (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Kenge f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190219 , vital:44975 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR197-08
- Description: The leader and composer of the Mzeno, Mbande, had little support from his orchestra in this recording as the occasion was not normal, there were too many other distractions at the fiesta. The drums of the Ndau team of dancers nearby can be heard in the background towards the end of this item. ain the crowd and guests. Orchestral dance, with 5 Timbila xylophones and 1 rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Mabandhla. 11th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Zandamela , Mbuziana Tomo (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zandamela f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/191581 , vital:45120 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR201-07
- Description: The Kutokozela cries precede the music, with the loud reports of the shield of the leader of the dancers smacking the ground as he declaims. It is during this movement that pairs of dancers come from either end of the line and dance together. When every pair has had its turn the line forms up and dances and sings the coda together. Orchestral dance with 14 Timbila xylophones - 2 Chilanzane (Treble), 8 Sange (Alto), 1 Doli (Tenor), 1 Debiinda (Bass), 2 Gulu (Double Bass).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Msitso wa womune
- Authors: Ngodo of Cabo Mahamba , Chiponi Kwapeni , Chiponi Kwapeni (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Cabo Mahamba f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/191626 , vital:45126 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR201-12
- Description: An unusual Msitso, in that the dancers shout their Kutokozela cries both after the opening kunigeta cadenza (from 0m. 40s to 1m. 23s) but also during the playing of the Msitso itself. Orchestral dance with 14 Timbila xylophones - 2 Chilanzane (Treble), 8 Sange (Alto), 1 Doli (Tenor), 1 Debiinda (Bass), 2 Gulu (Double Bass).
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- Date Issued: 1963
Chidanawana. 8th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Mavila , Shambini , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190531 , vital:45003 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR198-09
- Description: "This is not a bird which eats which eats the grain, it is an bird of the countryside. The people of Mavila worry us because of the praising of the Chief with the Timbila music. Now we begin the troubles with the Chief, with Chitambo, now we begin the troubles with the chief, with Chitmbo, with Matikiti and with Ndonga!" The sound expressed by the letter 'v' is the bilabial fricative but in this case sounds more like a 'w' (pronounced with a drawn lower lip) than a 'v'. Orchestral dance with 6 Timbila, 4 Sanzhe, 1 Debiinda, 1 Gulu and 1 rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Marcha
- Authors: Timoses, Comecado des Amigos , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Tonga language (Inhambane) , Folk dance music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maxixe f-mz
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189661 , vital:44918 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR196-10
- Description: Small dance groups such as this one are given to making impromptu patriotic speeches and to imitating the sound of the drums and trumphets of the local army band with their home made drums and singing horns. No one can say when singing horns were first introduced to this region. Speech in Portuguese and imitation military march, with 4 singing horns, 1 bass Gulu drum, 2 small drums fixed together and bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Custodo a mabile
- Authors: Timoses, Comecado des Amigos , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Tonga language (Inhambane) , Folk dance music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Maxixe f-mz
- Language: Gitonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/189679 , vital:44920 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR196-12
- Description: The horn singers can be heard attempting to sing the words of the highly repetitive music through the horns. But, since their lips are immobilised by the mouthpiece, the words are not distinct. Makarito dance, with 5 singing horns, 1 bass small drum, 2 small drums. 1 small bell.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Rungano rgwe musikana wo mvura murugwizi
- Authors: Mamungu Gumbo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Karanga (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Zaka f-rh
- Language: Karanga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195139 , vital:45532 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR210-09
- Description: This is the story of a young man who fell in love with a girl down by the river. He did not know that she was indeed a water sprite and lived in the river. He kept on asking her to marry him, and in the end she agreed but told him that if he wanted to see her he must always come to the river. Eventually he said he wanted to take her to his home, but she said "If you do that you must always have a pot of water with you in case I should faint and only water will revive me". So he agreed, and off they set along the path. Soon she began to faint and he rushed to fetch water from the nearest stream and so revived her. On they went until she fainted again and this time the stream was much further away and he only arrived back just in time to revive her. Now there was a long distance without a stream and in the middle of it she fainted once more. He went as fast as he could to fetch the life-giving water but when he got back it was too late and she was already dead; and that is how he lost his wife, his water sprite. Ngano story.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ngeniso. 7th Movement
- Authors: Ngodo of Mavila , Shambini , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190523 , vital:45002 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR198-08
- Description: "Talking, talking, just talking! Happily eating the food of the women! Tommorrow comes the trouble! Then you will not be able to recognise anybody there." The 'd' is implosive in the word Ndeko. The words of the lyric were not distinct as the dancers dancing in line opposite the timbila were too far away and too out of breath from their exhertions to make themselves heard. The words dictated to me by Shambini were as above. Orchestral dance with 6 Timbila, 4 Sanzhe, 1 Debiinda, 1 Gulu and 1 rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963