Nthumba na lume
- Authors: Lucy Nyamangwe , Tonga girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184927 , vital:44288 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-14
- Description: Wedding song sung, by the bride's party when they bring the girl to her husbands' village. "I sing with my husband." Wedding song, with drums
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Hakata
- Authors: M. Makhuvela (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133298 , vital:36961 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-06
- Description: Sketch impromtu
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Hayilolosa amale ye matshangana
- Authors: M. Makhuvela (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133252 , vital:36954 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-01
- Description: Topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Unganzibeli akuxonga
- Authors: M. Makhuvela (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133260 , vital:36956 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-02
- Description: Topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Meri wandinyenga
- Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184821 , vital:44275 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-02
- Description: "We long for our homes. We should call ours homes 'Towns'. Mary has deceived me." The attraction of the towns is decimating the male population of Tongaland. The singer makes a plea for the claim of their village homes in the face of foreign attractions. He is blind and he hoped Mary would have married him, but she could not bring herself to do so. Nostaligic song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Elizabheta kanta Mutungameri
- Authors: M. Makhuvela (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133285 , vital:36959 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-05
- Description: Topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Visekese wawoli wanyani lero wadinginika (Visekese had 2 wives)
- Authors: Group of 4 Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137321 , vital:37511 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-04
- Description: Each woman had her own rattle. These were made of stout grass in raft form. The song is about a man who had 2 wives whom he could not support. So he gave everything to one and left the other weeping. Sekese dance song with 4 raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Kari muchipfuwa
- 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/10962/195261 , vital:45546 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR212-05
- Description: Songs for "mhondoro" spirits.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1965
Koloni wanguya ku Masoku
- Authors: Maluba Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184848 , vital:44278 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-05
- Description: "There were two young men Koloni and Sandifolo who went to look for work." This player uses a short length or silver of bamboo as a bow, which was so efficient that he needed only to wet it with spittle once during the playing. The name Sandifolo would appear to be a local corruption of the English name Stanford or something similar. Beni dance song for men and women with Karigo one stringed bowed lute
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Palileni wanjiwa (Tell the people)
- Authors: Pikifoti Chilwa and Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137354 , vital:37515 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-07
- Description: Not how the pitch rises throughout the song. What the people were to be told was not explained. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Chani zangaria (I want to be married)
- Authors: Iron Khoma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137294 , vital:37507 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0037-01
- Description: "I want to have a wife. My friends, I want to be married. The fact that I have little hair on my head makes no difference. I have been singing songs with you for a long time. I have been singing songs with Tajiri and Jacobe. At our homes, over there, we have sung songs." Self-delectative nostalgic song with Bangwe board zither with 7 strings, lowest not used.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Atate wuchona kwa Rhodesia
- Authors: Joviani Nkhoma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184857 , vital:44279 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-06
- Description: His Bango is unusual in that it has two tin resonators, one at each end. He played the strings with his left hand and beat a simple pulse on one of the resonators with his right hand and miming the action at the word "Ndito", 'truly'. For the second song he turned his Bango round and held it at right angels pointing away from him touching the strings with his left hand and striking them with his right. This is the normal way of holding the instrument. The performer looked like a little old elf. Lament with Bango zither with 7 metal strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Dale wandizonda
- Authors: Manyanda Nyirenda , Young men and women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184884 , vital:44282 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-09
- Description: "My darling does not love me any more! Why is this? I put on white clothes but it does not help." The style of singing appears to be influenced by the local schools, and it is doubtful whether this item is wholely Tonga in form. Kwaya dance for young men and women
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
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
Ansati lwe u nganaye
- Authors: M. Makhuvela (Composer) , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Music--Mozambique , Folk music , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Africa Mozambique Gaza f-mz
- Language: Tonga
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133280 , vital:36958 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR011-04
- Description: Topical songs with 2 guitars
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Tayamba kumba vifya, tamu Chifila
- Authors: Oxendale Mateu Nkata , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184949 , vital:44291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-16
- Description: The style of this song appears to arise from the popular Malipenga dance which derives much of its colour from European taught melodies. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Suzgu muyaya
- Authors: Beti Kamanga , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184812 , vital:44274 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-01
- Description: "Men from our country are living in Rhodesia with other tribes. While we, left at home, are enduring all the difficulties of Nyasaland (Present day Malawi)." This is well supported by the statistics (1950); it is said that of 20,000 Tonga of this Chinteche District, 8,000 have left permantely from Southern and Northern Rhodesia and South Africa, another 8,000 are away and expected to return within 5 years, and 4,000 only remain in the country, most of whom will be off again as soon as their money is spent. The women and old men are left to do all the agricultural and home work. Topical song with Bangwe raft zither, 7 strings
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Pikifoti Chilwa (Name)
- Authors: Pikifoti Chilwa and Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137345 , vital:37513 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-06
- Description: It appears to be common practice among these Nyasaland Tonga to sing about themselves and their friends and especially and their friends and especially those who are sufficiently gifted musically to compose new melodies and new words for them. Topical song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Anyangwila yanga pano-kwawo (My Anyangwila is going to her mother)
- Authors: Group of 4 Tonga women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Tumbuka , Malawi , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
- Language: Luvale/Chokwe
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137334 , vital:37512 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR037-05
- Description: Anyangwila went off to her mother and lied to her. Sekese dance song with 4 raft rattles.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Wezulu walila
- Authors: Boys of Dedza Secondary School , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
- Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184958 , vital:44293 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-17
- Description: This song was sung, they say, when the white man first came to their country at the turn of the century. Unlike the local people they used whistle to give words of command and it was a novelity at the time, and so found its way into folk song. Dance song for Ngoma with clapping
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958