Wathi wa ota
- Authors: Mutio wa Katuma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175889 , vital:42635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-07
- Description: This musical bow is a plain bow, loosely strung and strained by means of a half section gourd, which is situated between the bow and the wire string. The concave side is held against the bow, the convex against the string. The singer sings into this hollow gourd and beats the string with a light stick producing one note only. Other players may beat both segments of the string thus producing two fundamental notes Divination song, with musical bow, strained and resonated with half gourd.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Musenga
- Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:42633 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-06
- Description: "I will praise you until your heart is broken like a bone. Keep your promise and come with me. When I sing your praise do not wrinkle your face like that." He strains the sisal bow by means of thumb pressure. Note how apprently out of tune he is with his instrument, which he appears to use as rhythmic ground only. Love song with Mbebe 1 sring, bowed lute.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Mulima hale
- Authors: Salome Nolega with Luya girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176232 , vital:42676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR161-07
- Description: A song sung by a woman as she walks a long way to her garden to dig. She sings about the noises made by the wild animals in the countryside. In this setting the song appears to have been influenced by European glee style of singing. Topical song.
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- Date Issued: 1950
Wathi wa Ngethi
- Authors: Kanyense Muange , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175986 , vital:42650 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-13
- Description: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
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- Date Issued: 1950