Marambeli waTiwafuni
- Authors: Mudzanani, Baranganani , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Sibasa f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187743 , vital:44692 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-05
- Description: The prefixes Vho-X, Vho-Y refer to married folk. Marambele and Thirhafuni are either two young folk, male and female respectively. I doubt if they are children of John and Vele. Vele is usually a woman's name. John! John and Vele, Marambele and Thirhafuni. And Thirhafuni in the hut. What are they doing inside? Jona and Vele have eloped, At Tsilate. John (at) Tshilate. I saw Marambele and Vele. Inside the hut. What are they doing inside? Chigombera dance for girls with Mbira - 24 notes
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Bidera
- Authors: Mudzanani, Baranganani , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Sibasa f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187714 , vital:44689 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-03
- Description: "To eat beef is to eat blood, I will see the daylight at Sibasa. Matasalutombo and Mwambale. Do not come with Mashawi (souls). I will see the daylight at Sibasa. And climb the trees at Chibasa. To eat beef is to eat blood. Self delectative song, with Mbira - 24 notes
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Achimati Cha Boana
- Authors: Mafilori, Isabela , Young Shangaan girls , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Bilene Macia f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197141 , vital:45842 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-004 , Research no. CG3b
- Description: Indigenous folk song of the chikhalawahlana dance, with singing accompanied by handclapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-28
Inkwayu kaNgungunyana- Guba
- Authors: Old Shangaan men at Cabo Mukoki , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-30
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Cabo Mukoki, Macia District f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197432 , vital:45875 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-006 , Research no. CI5b
- Description: Indigenous regimental dance song for the chief, with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-30
Ungarile
- Authors: Shangaan women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Bilene Macia f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197096 , vital:45837 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-004 , Research no. CG2a
- Description: Indigenous folk pounding song with singing accompanied by the pounding of a mortar and pestle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-28
Hambo nto yini
- Authors: Koza, Mpepo , Shangaan girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187808 , vital:44699 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-11
- Description: Country work songs are usually plentiful all over Africa but few places have songs specifically associated with the picking of oranges. The Tzaneen district of the Transvaal has a great number of citrus orchards which call for casual labour at harvest time and no doubt this song has come to be associated with this season, May, June and July, when the southern hemisphere citrus crop ripens. Work song (collecting oranges)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Ngungunyana
- Authors: Old Shangaan men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Bilene Macia f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197363 , vital:45867 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-004 , Research no. CH4
- Description: Indigenous regimental song (Ihubo) with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-29
Salani mwana manani
- Authors: Mwamitwa, Juinu Thlongo , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187925 , vital:44710 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-15
- Description: The string was stopped with backs of two fingers. Note the change of tempo at c 1m.20s. This stressed bow had two segments of the 73" string, the one 38" and the other 35" long, creating two fundamental notes of 142 and 166 vs. respectively, an interval of 270 cents. "Goodbye, child of my mother. Mitarini came home with a child from Johannesburg." Self delectative song with Maringisa stressed bow
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Tombi ya Masula
- Authors: Sumbane, Situta , Magoda, Salimu , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-23
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Lourenco Marques f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197829 , vital:45913 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-008 , Research no. CB9
- Description: Indigenous topical folk song with mbira, singing and desa gourd resonator.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-23
Hiwawanaru emabazini - e
- Authors: Mutombeni, Daine , Shangaan girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187951 , vital:44712 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-16
- Description: "On Wednesday we go to the bust stop, truly, yes!" The simple pleasures of the country folk who look forward to the one weekly bus which passes through their village is expressed in this tuneful little song. Tchatchula dance for young girls
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Verijina chambane
- Authors: Mavunya, Mphahla , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique City not specified f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/196614 , vital:45785 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-003 , Research no. CF10
- Description: Indigenous folk love song with chizambe friction bow, singing and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-27
Shimeliana
- Authors: Muyanga, Soloman , Kosa, Pedro , Shangaan men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Incomati Sugar Estates f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197732 , vital:45903 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-007 , Research no. CE8
- Description: Indigenous town dance folk song with singing and a homemade guitar.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-25
Zebekwaya
- Authors: Shangaan dancers , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-03-06
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa CMR mine f-sa
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225023 , vital:49176 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT348-H14 , Research no. H1H2
- Description: Not specified.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-03-06
Hamba Tsotsi
- Authors: Makuwana, Dakeni , Shangaan women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-29
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Bilene Macia f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197231 , vital:45852 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-004 , Research no. CH2
- Description: Indigenous folk song for the Masese woman's dance, with singing and clapping, accompanied by drumming.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-29
Vuka sithandaze
- Authors: Group of Shaangan men and women , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-04-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Nelspruit f-sa
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250540 , vital:52010 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT576-M28 , Research no. M2I12
- Description: A mutshongolo dance song for men and women accompanied by drums and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-04-02
Ha-a, twanana
- Authors: Makanana, Daine Mutombeni , Shangaan women , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187781 , vital:44696 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-08
- Description: The name of this singer Makanana means 'Jump for joy'. These Shangan or Tsonga people of the Transvaal are related to the Shangaans of Mozambique many of them having come up onto the highlands during the war of pacification between Gungunyana and the Portuguese at the turn of the century. "When we were still in love, in Johannesburg, it was fine." Love song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Huma ndluni
- Authors: Mavunya, Mphahla , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-27
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique City not specified f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197063 , vital:45833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-003 , Research no. CF9
- Description: Indigenous folk love song with chizambe friction bow, singing and rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-27
Nyankwawane
- Authors: Shangaan men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Lourenco Marques, Incomati Sugar Estates f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/198136 , vital:45948 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-010 , Research no. CE2
- Description: Indigenous folk work song for digging, with unaccompanied singing.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-26
Ngungunyane wamadhlisile tinhlampfi wamaji
- Authors: Shangaan men , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-05-25
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Mozambique people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Incomati Sugar Estates f-rh
- Language: Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/197700 , vital:45899 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT-007 , Research no. CE5
- Description: Indigenous folk song with singing, accompanied by the sound of shovels digging earth and intermittent whistling.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-05-25
Famba gathle Changani
- Authors: Mubombeni, Makahani , Shangaan girls , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Venda (African people) , Tsonga (African people) , Folk songs, Tsonga , Folk music--South Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Tzaneen f-sa
- Language: Venda , Tsonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187799 , vital:44698 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR193-10
- Description: "Go well to Portuguese East Africa (Changani). Tell your relatives to take two knockberries. We shall arrive at sunrise by the morning bus." Pre-Marriage song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963