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A Kawoko ndi ndhondo

- Chewa girls, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

A Yotamu amati andimange

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

A-a-ye nanga omwale (Aaye! what about Omwale)

- Women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158936 , vital:40242 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-12
  • Description: Dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. The song consists mostly of references to the names of local persons. Such as OMwale, Ojere, OPhiri etc., each with the tonorific prefix 'O'. The equivalent of the English "Mister". Dance tune with bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Ai lelo kwa Masula kotokoto (Today at Masula, sickness)

- Woman of Masula village, Hugh Tracey

Amani mwanena kululuka

- Chewa girls, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Amati akatambe tilawe

- Chewa girls, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Ana amuna (Young men ought to put on grey trousers)

- Three young girls of Masula, Hugh Tracey

Anali kudambo Chingodola (Chingodola went to draw water at the marsh)

- Mavuto Mlanzi, Hugh Tracey

Bwezi langa

- Hodede Homwale, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Hodede Homwale , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186489 , vital:44504 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-08
  • Description: "I had a friend but the high God has taken him away." The pauses in the music are caused by the necessity of having to apply spittle to the bow. The fingering of the single string is done by the inside of the 2nd segment of the fingers of the left hand and not by the tips of the fingers. The open string was tuned to 182 vs. The string was made of twisted Wazi bark, it had a small friction pad of Ilala palm leaf (koko) wound onto where the reed bow (uta) was applied to the string. A loop of bark string was used near the Mtowo peg for fine tuning straining the string downwards the Mpini neck. The goat skin membrane was pinned onto a carved wooden bowl with a sound hole cut into its side. Lament, with 1 stringed Karigo lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Che Bula

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Chin'ombe. Kukowa wala, 1st movement

- Benson Phiri, Chewa young men, Tracey, Hugh

Chinyau

- Chewa men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chewa men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-20
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/211013 , vital:47567 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT167-D28.1 , Research no. DV12b
  • Description: Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1950-05-20

Chinyau

- Chewa men and women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chewa men and women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187326 , vital:44605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-12
  • Description: The mask of the male dancer consists of a headpiece covered with sheep's wool, crowned with guibea-fowl feathers and a rag costume of sacking. The male dancer may not approach near the women hence the distance away of the singing chorus. Four drummers provide the rhythm and the assembled women sing the chorus. Kacipapa is the name of the mask in which the principal dancer dances, and gives its name to the dance itself, a ,ask dance. The masked man sings in a feigned falsetto, voice in order to hide his identity from the crowd. The names of the two drums were:- Mpanje-the tall drum; and Mbalwe the Mtiwiso for the larger and smaller goblet drums. There appear to be several versions of the Chinyau dance in central Nyasaland. Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Chinyau

- Chewa men and women, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chewa men and women , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950-05-20
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/210980 , vital:47564 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT167-D28.1 , Research no. DV12a
  • Description: Kacipapa dance song, Mask dance, danced for obsequies of a dead chief or headman with 2 goblet drums and 2 tall cylindrical drums accompaniment.
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  • Date Issued: 1950-05-20

Cilondola mileka

- Homwale, Hodede (Performer), Tracey, Hugh (Recordist)

  • Authors: Homwale, Hodede (Performer) , Tracey, Hugh (Recordist)
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186658 , vital:44522 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-21
  • Description: The string often needs a new palm leaf friction pad and the pitch of the tonic or string note may be changed frequently. The 'resin' of the reed bow is spittle and needs renewing between each verse. This is done by swiftly passing the bow over the tongue of the player. The palm leaf friction pad is made by winding a strip of leaf onto the single string near its resonator at a convenient spot for bowing. It serves not only as a friction pad but also protects the bark string from wearing away at the spot. Karigo dance song for men and women with one string Karigo lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Citawala. 2nd movement

- Benson Phiri, Chewa men, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Benson Phiri , Chewa men , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/187236 , vital:44588 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR192-02
  • Description: "Men and women, together with the chief, you have come here to see the clever dancers. We come from towns where we sing like church organs." Melody for the 2nd movement. There are two movements in the Muganda dance, the second is performed with drums only and without the Malipenga gourds. Muganda dance, with 1 Bass drum (rubber beaters), I small bass drum (stick beaters) and Malipenga singing gourds with mirliton (-11.14-)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ine ndidanduala

- Mami Nakwenda, Belifa Nyabanda, Two Chewa girls, Hugh Tracey

Ine ndikumbira (I am envious)

- Women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Chewa , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Lilongwe f-mw
  • Language: Nyanja/Chewa
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158927 , vital:40241 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-11
  • Description: Two dance tunes with the minimum of melodic inspiration to evoke the dance. The bass drum was beaten by two women, one on each side of the drum opposite each other. "I am envious of my friends wearing evening dress."Andiloko from the Afrikaans word Aandrok. Dance tune with bass drum.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Inyimbo Copper Belt

- Bulawayo Sweet Rythms, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Koko

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

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