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Ng'eng'e kumatengele

- R. T. Mbuluwundi (Composer), Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Nkhendannga uteka ukwenka zeza (I was walking and found the grass moving)

- Ruben Tankadi Mbuluwundi and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Nkurira nyama (I cry for meat)

- J. M. C. Chimpandando, Hugh Tracey

Pano pano tabikana mutima (This village is full of jealousy)

- Smart Chigwamba and group of 5 Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

Sekelele tawona tengwa ipya

- Composer not specified, Group of Tumbuka men (Performers), Hugh Tracey

Tayamba kumba vifya, tamu Chifila

- Oxendale Mateu Nkata, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Tawikana mutima pano

- Ruben Tancard Mbuluwundi, Tumbuka/Henga men, Hugh Tracey

zapoke muchere uno

- Foch Manda, Tumbuka men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Foch Manda , Tumbuka men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185534 , vital:44395 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-17
  • Description: A typical song from the Lundazi District which makes use of the local variety of yodeling and chorus. The recording was made in a hall which gives a false acoustic to the song which as a folk song should be heard in the open air. Chiparaparu dance song
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  • Date Issued: 1952

A buthu wa cimbira

- Nancy Luhoma, Mwenela Kaunda, Hugh Tracey

A Luwe

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Taines Chirwa , Nancy Luhana , Tumbuka girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185168 , vital:44335 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-14
  • Description: Luwe was the name of a certain man who had no children. He had married a woman who bore him no babes. The pre-occupation in the African mind with the question of offspring is frequently the subject of songs. The 'A' before the proper name is the equivalent of the English 'Mr.' (Mister). Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

A pongozi mbanonoko

- Nancy Luhoma, Mwenela Kaunda, Hugh Tracey

A Tembo

- Taines Chirwa, Nancy Luhana, Tumbuka girls, Hugh Tracey

A Yotamu amati andimange

- Ganizani Nyirenda, Hugh Tracey

Amama nkhawawone

- Eliya Chaya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185263 , vital:44359 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-05
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Ametela metela

- Kaphatikila Kanyingi, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kaphatikila Kanyingi , 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 Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/186630 , vital:44519 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR191-19
  • Description: The one stringed lute has a wooden bowl for a resonator with a sound hole on its side. The string is strained with a peg but final tuning is achieved by means of a straining string. It is bowed by a reed or bamboo bow with spittle and the fingering is achieved by gripping the string with the inside of the second segment of the second and fouth fingers. Self delecatative song with Karigo one stringed bowed Lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Angoni sonu

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

Atate wuchona kwa Rhodesia

- Joviani Nkhoma, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Joviani Nkhoma , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Folk songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Songs, Chewa , Chewa (African people) , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Musical instruments , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chinteche f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka , Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja , Tonga (Nyasa)
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184857 , vital:44279 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR187-06
  • Description: His Bango is unusual in that it has two tin resonators, one at each end. He played the strings with his left hand and beat a simple pulse on one of the resonators with his right hand and miming the action at the word "Ndito", 'truly'. For the second song he turned his Bango round and held it at right angels pointing away from him touching the strings with his left hand and striking them with his right. This is the normal way of holding the instrument. The performer looked like a little old elf. Lament with Bango zither with 7 metal strings
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Awoli a legimenti

- Tumbuka women, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Tumbuka women , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Kasungu f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185141 , vital:44332 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR188-11
  • Description: "Soilders wives, take care of your clothes, you may have to dispose of some of them to buy yourselves food." A poignant little song which reflects the experience of war wives (1939-45). It has an attractive melody in the chorus. Pounding song with mortar and two pestles
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Azungu musinjilo

- Eliya Chaya, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eliya Chaya , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Mzimba f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/185276 , vital:44360 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR189-06
  • Description: This instrument usually called Bangwe among the Yao is here called Bango. Simple song in typical vein by a village singer. The tuning of the Bango was:- 256, 236, 216, 198, 178, 156, 140 vs. Self delectative song with Bango board Zither (7 notes)
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Benu

- Maluba Mwale, Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Maluba Mwale , Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Songs, Tumbuka , Tumbuka (African people) , Songs, Tonga (Nyasa) , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Chiundasi f-mw
  • Language: Tumbuka
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/184689 , vital:44249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR186-13
  • Description: "What am I going to tell them? Where am I going to complain? I am singing like a church organ." Benu is the name of a jumping action in the dance. This instrument was particulary well played and well made of its kind. The one stringed lute appears to come from the upper Nile and has not been found south of Nyasaland and the Zambesi valley. Chioda dance song for young women with Karigo one stringed lute
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  • Date Issued: 1950
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