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Chidilo cha mindonga

- Chopi men and women, Samuel Kandhlelo (Leader), Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Chopi men and women , Samuel Kandhlelo (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Canda f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194221 , vital:45431 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-06
  • Description: "He is weeping for his palm trees which have been taken by others, although he planted them, it as a punishment for what he has done." An unusual kind of song no doubt overlooked on account of the Timbila music. All the people standing around began to join with the song as it was clearly well known. The player had equipped himself with a couple of sprigs of shrub with about half a dozen long and slender dry seed pods. This he used as a gentle rattle for accompaniment. It was the first of its kind I had seen. Lament with Seed Pod rattle.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Chibongo cha Hosi Chihawahawa wa Yoyane

- Combined Migodo of Regulo Canda and Cabo Mtoti, Taifiana Faifi (Leader), Jasintu Kumbani, Tracey, Hugh

Msitso wo mbidi

- Combined Migodo of Zavaka and Nyakutowo, Fanikiso (Learder), Tracey, Hugh

Msitso wo khata

- Combined Migodo of Zavaka and Nyakutowo, Chidanyana (Learder), Tracey, Hugh

Chibudu

- Combined Migodo of Zavaka and Nyakutowo, Katosi (Learder), Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Combined Migodo of Zavaka and Nyakutowo , Katosi (Learder) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190156 , vital:44968 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR197-01
  • Description: Here at Zavala the Sange Timbila is also called Sanzhi. The orchestra consisted of 2 Chianzani treble xylophones, 8 Sange Alto xylophones, 3 Debinda bass xylophones, 2 Gulu bouble bass xylophones and 4 Njele rattles. The morning on which this was recorded was very wild and wet, just after a severestorm off the sea. The wind was still high and the rain falling in gusts. In the circumstances it was remarkable that the musicians and dancing that they contuinued in spite of the weather. The combined Timbila orchestras of Zavala and Nyakutowo often performed together at one or other village or at an agreed dance floor halfway between the two, about 2 miles from each other. Movement from Ngodo orchestral dance, with 15 Timbila xylophones.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Chimveka tune

- Eight small Chopi boys, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Eight small Chopi boys , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193331 , vital:45322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-16
  • Description: Chimveka, they say, are only played at the end of the harvest season when there is plenty of food. In time of famine these pipes are never heard. Bands of small Chopi boys can often be seen out in the bush capering around in a tight circle, heads close together and blowing their flutes almost into each others cars. They seem to enjoy the excessive noise at close quarters. The scale of the flutes would appear to be arbitrary and does not correspond with the scale of the Timbila xylophones. The tuning of this set of pipes was:- 632, 592, 544, 488, 412, 372, 348 vs. giving intervals of 112, 147, 188, 148, 145, 177 and 115 cents respectively. Reed end-blown pipes, with rattles and stamping.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Chimveka tune

- Eight small Chopi boys, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Eight small Chopi boys , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193340 , vital:45323 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-17
  • Description: Chimveka, they say, are only played at the end of the harvest season when there is plenty of food. In time of famine these pipes are never heard. Bands of small Chopi boys can often be seen out in the bush capering around in a tight circle, heads close together and blowing their flutes almost into each others cars. They seem to enjoy the excessive noise at close quarters. The scale of the flutes would appear to be arbitrary and does not correspond with the scale of the Timbila xylophones. The tuning of this set of pipes was:- 632, 592, 544, 488, 412, 372, 348 vs. giving intervals of 112, 147, 188, 148, 145, 177 and 115 cents respectively. Reed end-blown pipes, with rattles and stamping.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Mwamwangu wotala achikene

- Elena Josio, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Elena Josio , Chopi women , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193198 , vital:45308 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR204-05
  • Description: "No one cares for me and they give me leaves to wear instead of cotton clothes." This is the complaint of a rejected wife whose husband is away working, or of a widow who has been thrown back on her own meagre resources. The leader, Elena Josio, calls out her own name at the end of the song. Another explanation was that the dead person had not been properly clothed in a shroud for burial. Funeral song with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Gongondwani wandwike

- Elena Leve, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

Chingomani

- Eleven girls of Banguza's village, Luzi Chowane (Leader), Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Eleven girls of Banguza's village , Luzi Chowane (Leader) , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Banguza f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/194230 , vital:45432 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR205-07
  • Description: The girls wore rattles strapped to their right ankles. The costume was composed of rather long cotton blouses, skirts, trousers and grass skirts over all. The drum was hung onto a stick planted into the soft sand and was played with two light sticks by a blind drummer. Luzi Chowane is the leader of the Ngodo dancers and composed this item for the girls to dance, directing it by whistle. He altered the tone of the whistle by placing finger and thumb on either side of the fipple. This can be heard best during the drum solo. As with so much African dance music the sight of the dance is often more entertaining than the sound of the dance music. This movement lasrs 4m. 50s. when they give 'cries', followed by the second movement at 5m. 20s. which in turn is followed by short 'tokozela' cries at 6m. 40s. Young girls dance with drum Muchinga, clapping with wooden clappers, hand clapping and whistle.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Tata wawu osi wana

- Emmelina Zavala, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

Sheweni wa pumba

- Esperaca Zaguen, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

Mzeno of Komukomu

- Komukomu, 5 Chopi men; Katini, Sekelani, Madoshimani, Bokisi and Dajanyana, Tracey, Hugh

Awe Filipi malala mwana angu

- Mafolda Chipeca, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

Woyahahai zhembulane

- Maria Taime, Chopi women, Tracey, Hugh

Mzeno wa Katini

- Migodo of Zavala and Nyakutowo, Katini Zavala, Tracey, Hugh

  • Authors: Migodo of Zavala and Nyakutowo , Katini Zavala , Tracey, Hugh
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Music--Mozambique , Folk songs, Chopi , Chopi (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Zavala f-mz
  • Language: Chopi
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/190201 , vital:44973 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR197-06
  • Description: Composed in 1943, 20 years before, this Mxeno is still played and loved all over Chopiland. It was recorded on this occasion under almost impossible conditions with a high wind and driving showers of rain. It was intended to demonstrate the singing rather than the Timbila playing which in fact was not very good. The words of this Mzeno, almost unaltered since it was first composed by Katini, appear in my book "Chopi Muscians" P24 and 25. It will be noticed that the present players and singers end the Mxeno on the last verse of the lyric without repaeating the first stanza as a coda, which Katini himself used to do. Each verse, by tradition, is repeated. The Timbila of the leader was not well strapped up, hence the rattle of the slats against the beaerers. Orchestral dance, with 15 Timbila xylophones and 4 Njele rattles.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Ho, niihondile

- Miliya Bukulane, Rude Wache, Amelia Faduko, Tracey, Hugh

Wi-wi-wi-wi mirongo

- Miliya Bukulane, Rude Wache, Amelia Faduko, Tracey, Hugh

Eto, hangane maha

- Miliya Bukulane, Rude Wache, Amelia Faduko, Tracey, Hugh

Mzeno of Cabo Mtoti

- Mzeno of Cabo Mtoti, Lambo Diki Muchinga (Leader), Tracey, Hugh

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