Mupukumo
- Authors: Sirifino Mutare , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia city not specified f-za
- Language: Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/309255 , vital:59016 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2459-XYZ5990
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Mupukumo
- Authors: Sirifino Mutare , Two Bemba men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183789 , vital:44069 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-15
- Description: The scale of this instrumet was:- 592, 544, 504, 456, 424, 376, 340, 308, 280, 252, 228 vs. With the exception of the new top intervals of the scale all the remainder are approximately 1 3/4 semitone each. The intervals measured in cents are:- 126, 208, 174, 172, 165, 182, 173 cents. This tune follows closely upon a well established and unmistakeably Bemba style of melody. When singing in parallel thirds the size of the consecutive thirds, taken from the measured scale would be:- 334, 382, 346, 337, 355 cents. Parallel fourths would be:- 508, 554, 511, 519, 520 cents. Drinking song with Mbira, Chilimba ya waBemba
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Sicembe
- Authors: Sirifino Mutare , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Lozi (African people) , Bemba (African people) , Folk songs, Bemba , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia Kasama f-za
- Language: Lozi , Bemba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/183780 , vital:44068 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR182-14
- Description: This type of Mbira has a single manual clearly divided into left and right sections, the left having five notes, and the right six. The scale is carried by both sides in a customary though not regular alternation, thus from high to low the eleven notes are found:- L. R. L. R. R. L. R. R. L. R. L. Topical song, with Mbira, Chilimba ya waBemba
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952