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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

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

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

Lembani kalata kwa Masula (Write to Masula)

- Three young girls of Masula, Hugh Tracey

Nimati ndikaone acete (I wanted to go and see Cete)

- Mavuto Mlanzi, Hugh Tracey

Onani ndenge yokwela masula (Look at the aeroplane)

- Woman of Masula village, Hugh Tracey

Panari mtsikana wina (The girl and the beads)

- Boys of Masula village, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Boys of Masula village , 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/10962/158544 , vital:40205 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR094-09
  • Description: An equivalent story to one in Southern Rhodesia. There were three girls who went to the river to get water. They had big strings of beads but one forgot her beads down by the river and when she got home she told her brothers and asked them to take her back to the river to look for them. They refused, so she went alone. She found a hyena who had taken her beads and put them inside a drum and then when she arrived he caught her and put her inside the drum also. He then went to the village to play the drum. The people of the village heard her singing inside the drum. They cooked food and gave it to the hyena who, as soon as he had eaten the food began to play the drum. He went to another village and did the same. The girl inside the drum got very hot but eventually her brothers saved her by cutting open the drum and the hyena diasppeared. A were-wolf story. Nthano story.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Tototo ine chambila (No, no, not for me)

- Women, Hugh Tracey

Muzungu wanga ndilipile ndizipita (My master, pay me, I want to go home now)

- Bigton Gombeza, Hugh Tracey

Ndi shuye ndi kalele mwana

- Bigton Gombeza, 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

Ine ndidanduala

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

Koko

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Mande mpa khomo

- Shawa, Govati, Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Shawa , Govati , Chewa women , 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/10962/186480 , vital:44503 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-07
  • Description: "When I die, dig my grave before my door as I do not wish to be buried with all the others." A song for singing on the way home after a drinking party. The two leading singers sing as if they were having a friendly argument pointing at each other and generally helping each other along. The custom of burying a person near his own door or beside his own hut is also found in the Zamgesi River Valley among the Tonga. Drinking song
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mulungu analenga Adamu ndi Eva

- Mikaeli Husen Phiri, Mulale school children, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mikaeli Husen Phiri , Mulale school children , 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/10962/186310 , vital:44484 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR190-07
  • Description: "God made Adam and Eve from earth." A system of drilling and physical training to music for very snall children. The various actions of the drill are accompanied by the drums with a song in between action. One of the actions here included was making the sign of the cross. The children were pupils at an out station of the nearby Catholic Mission at Likuni. Note how the children naturally play 2 against 3, the double time of the drums against the triple time of the piece of metal and sing in paraell. Three physical excercises to music, with 1 large and 2 small bass drums and a piece of metal
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mungabe

- Chewa women, Hugh Tracey

Nidapalamula I

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

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