Uta rungula wamamane lekaya (Greet the mothers at home)
- Authors: Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers) , T.O. Kowano (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Humorous song , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Bileni f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132604 , vital:36856 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR007-10
- Description: Humorous song with guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Ndwimo lwa mutetere(Flute tune)
- Authors: Mwami Sinefwala Mukuli , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138460 , vital:37639 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-11
- Description: The flute was 6 feet long, and was made of the section of an old bicycle pump. Walking song. (Also self-delectative after work), with Mutetere transverse flute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mulala syanangoma valikuyalalika (A poisonous snake came and rubbed itself against me)
- Authors: Siachema and his friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138243 , vital:37614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-12
- Description: "The mulala (a poisonous snake) came and rubbed itself against me and next morning I found I was suffering from sores. Then I told my father to go to the diviner. The diviner said: "Go and dig up some roots of chingwele (a plant)". Then the old woman, when she went to draw water at the river said: "I don't like Siachema." I would like to know why she said this." Tuning of the instrument as follows:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Topical song with fan-shaped Kankowela mbira, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Karubgwerubgwe kone agwari (I will sleep on a stone)
- Authors: Group of Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138017 , vital:37584 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-05
- Description: The only headdress the women wear is a simple band or string round the head and passing over the forehead. They wear a few strings round their neck occassionaly. Their dress mainly consists of a short knee-length skirt and sometimes a bodice. They sometimes wear a good many copper or brass anklets. Skins are still worn as a covering for the upper part of the body. The men have no special dress, just the usual collection of tattered shirts, shorts and trousers. The implication of the second song is: "Now I am married, I don't know where I'm going to; I may have to sleep any where, perhaps in a tree, perhaps on a stone. Marriage song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Ngano zwano twokuruma (The story of the people who were digging)
- Authors: Jobi Chaliwepa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138526 , vital:37646 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR044-04
- Description: The response is "Kalanga-ti". The burden of this story is that a certain man with only one testicle could not walk like other men, but walked with a limp on account of his physical peculiarity. Story with song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Tomujayi muntu mwana mwanike angu (Don't kill anyone, my brother's son)
- Authors: Siachema and his friends , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138099 , vital:37593 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR041-14
- Description: "If you kill someone; you will go to prison at Gwembe. They will bring ropes to tie your hands and feet. What has tempted you to kill people? You must think of what I'm telling you now." Tuning of the instrument:- 592, 528, 480, 432, 400, 356, 320, 296, 264, 240 vps. Morality song with Kankowela mbira, fanshaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Siti, musikana adadeka (Siti, the beautiful girl)
- Authors: Saini Murira, Chingaipa Madzikuminga, Zhogi Muzengedza and Saini Madera , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Sena , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Sena (African people) , Folk music , Africa Zimbabwe Mkota, Mtoko District f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156519 , vital:40012 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR091-11
- Description: The drum player hits the side of the drum with his stick, the membrane with his fingers as well as playing strong notes with the stick and his hand. Party song with three Matebe.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
Mayanze
- Authors: Group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138406 , vital:37633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-05
- Description: The drum called here called Gayanda is similar if not identical to the one called Musuntu which is used for the Makundu dance. The reason for this variation in naming was not explained. Mayanze drinking songs with a Gayanda drum, hand beaten, the Gayanda being conical, single, open, pegged with 3 sticks tapped on the side of the drum.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Mazilayane
- Authors: Nyakhoma, Sara Inemja , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-13
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Homoine District, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202310 , vital:46495 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-029 , Research no. CW4
- Description: Indigenous folk song sung after female circumcision, with singing and clapping, accompanied by brief whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-13
Chembere luimbolo (Old people, here is a song)
- Authors: Notis Chukwa , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139113 , vital:37706 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-16
- Description: This song was recorded in the shade of a large tamarind tree outside the village of Sinefwala. Self-delectative song with Kalumbo bow vertical, braced and gourd resonated.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Masesa II
- Authors: Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers) , F. Mabosso (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Hand-clapping music , Folk dance music , Drum--Performance , Whistles , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Bileni f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132688 , vital:36869 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR008-05
- Description: Dance song for Masesa dance with 2 cylindrical drums, whistles and clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Kana mano
- Authors: Saini Madera and group , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk music--Zimbabwe , Songs, Sena , Sena (African people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe Rhodesia f-rh
- Language: Sena , Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/195274 , vital:45547 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-06
- Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Malala (The powerful back)
- Authors: Masaria and other Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138143 , vital:37598 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-03
- Description: This song were taken during the actual grinding of millet into meal outside a hut. The millet was a fine brown variety known as Munga in Rhodesia. This small work song is sometimes well known by everyone in the village and commonly used by the women as they grind their corn on the stone outside their hut, or they are individual compositions without a name and with few words to the lyrics. Grinding song accompanied by the sound of grindstone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Hongoleni Gayaya ; Mayime kanyiba
- Authors: Tonga Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-13
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Homoine District, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202403 , vital:46515 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-030 , Research no. CX1
- Description: Indigenous folk dance song with singing, clapping and background cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-13
Nzi kombela foli
- Authors: Tonga/ Hlanguni (Performers) , A. Kossa (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1955
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Guitar , Instrumental music , Africa Mozambique Chibuto f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/132540 , vital:36849 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR007-03
- Description: Two topical songs with two guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955
Nyenge
- Authors: Tonga Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-13
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Homoine District, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202412 , vital:46516 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-030 , Research no. CX2
- Description: Indigenous folk dance song with singing, drumming, clapping and intermittent background cries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-13
Sigorira (Who is crying)
- Authors: Mangwato Penge , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:37693 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR046-06
- Description: The singer was an old man. Self-delectative song with Kankobela mbira, fan-shaped, with external resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Twalimina bauya
- Authors: Sikazinga, Richard , Tonga men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-20
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Lusaka f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/208859 , vital:47316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT083-C99 , Research no. C4M11
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing and struck percussion by hitting sticks against axe handles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-20
Walianzi sunu Gengere (Where did you eat Gengere)
- Authors: Group of Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138386 , vital:37629 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-04
- Description: Bugande drinking song with 1 Muntundu drum, hand beaten.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Farinya nimatapa
- Authors: Tonga Men and Women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-06-14
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Homoine District, Inhambane Province f-rh
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/202417 , vital:46518 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-030 , Research no. CX3
- Description: Indigenous folk dance song with singing, drumming, clapping and intermittent background cries, accompanied by a whistle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-06-14