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Moroallo oa metsi a pula

- Ts'oene Toma and young men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ts'oene Toma and young men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161292 , vital:40613 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-05
  • Description: The melody of this song strongly resembles the songs of the Northern Tanganyikans. "The floods of rain. Ngene, Ngene, the noise of rain. The lightening flashed and then rain came. Makhoabunyane of Mount Katike. When it makes this roaring sound it does it only to annoy. So I took up my stick and went to find out about it. Lengae men's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Nong (Vulture)

- Tlokotsi Lesikara and Mohomane, Hugh Tracey

Tsoanya (Sweet sound)

- Tlokotsi Lesikara and Mohomane, Hugh Tracey

Kerefisi

- Taba Ramothobi and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Taba Ramothobi and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161259 , vital:40610 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-02
  • Description: This song refers to the late Paramount Chief Griffiths Lerotholi who was the father-in-law of Mantsebo, the present female regent of the Sotho people (1959). The words are highly poetic, difficult to translate. " Griffiths - 'Griff' of Lerotholi, Griffiths, the promiscous, piercer of women, water snake of Mokhachane (Moshoeshoe's fater). Civet cat, crocodile, one-eyed snake. Rasenqu (Father of the Orange river, the Senqu). You should prosper!" Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Tsemeli e Telele (The Butcher bird)

- Small boys of Koali, Hugh Tracey

Nyeketheula

- Small boys of Koali, Hugh Tracey

Hoba Bacha (To the young men)

- Silas Khiba and Sello Kaneli and about 20 Sotho men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Silas Khiba and Sello Kaneli and about 20 Sotho men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161248 , vital:40609 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-01
  • Description: "To the young men. It seems to be the sign to make headrings for the young. Who are you and who am I? I am Mokalia Thole. Who are you and who am I? I have found monkeys. What were they doing? They were eating fruit. I asked them to give me some. And they gave me a mouthful. A mouthful, my grandchild! You praise yourself oh, these surprises!" Mokorotlo men's riding song with Lithoko praises, and wih stamping feet.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Re roala masale (We wear earings)

- Seponono Mokemane and group of men, Hugh Tracey

Terene ea malahla (The train)

- Sehloho, Hugh Tracey

Ho-ho-ho-ho ba bacha (To the young men)

- Seforo Mosese, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Seforo Mosese , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162003 , vital:40747 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-03
  • Description: "Oh, the young men, the men of LeLerotholi's place are black and are called horse-eaters. Your guns are used for shooting pigeons, and your spears for hunting mice. Let Mpaleng's father speak. Youe child looks like its father, your child looks like its maternal uncle, I resemble Mokhehle of Mokoalibe. Dun-coloured with long tears. Dun-coloured and milked by women. The child of Seforo's wife is the one who provided a bachelor with a bed." Mokorotlo riding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Oa mona Letsie (You see Letsie) Chief of Leribe.

- Seforo Mosese, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Seforo Mosese , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162012 , vital:40749 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-04
  • Description: "You see Letsie, Leribe where there is a beautiful small mountain. Brakpan with its small pretty hill. My mother's Mosinoa, mother's child. You see Seforo, you see Tefolo. Mosinoa, Moea's child, is crying. He cries although nobody has hit him." Mokorotlo riding song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ha tsekoa sebaka (A site was in dispute)

- Sebakeng Khoalenyana and group of 15 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Sebakeng Khoalenyana and group of 15 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161899 , vital:40688 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-11
  • Description: The words were impromptu and the singer said he really could not remember what words he had sung. He just made them up out of his head. It is clear that the deep notes of the Mokorotlo are most satisfying in themselves to the perfromers. Mokorotlo are sung by men together on horseback or walking or even at a drinking party.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Teohela Silatsatsi(Go down Silatsatsi)

- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: School girls of Qeme , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161821 , vital:40681 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
  • Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Teohela Silatsatsi(Go down Silatsatsi)

- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: School girls of Qeme , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161834 , vital:40680 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-05
  • Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Paulo (Paul)

- School girls of Qeme, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: School girls of Qeme , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161816 , vital:40679 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0104-04
  • Description: This singing game is done in a circle, each girl kneeling with a stone in her hand. They beat their stones on the ground and in some cases hand them onto the next girl to their right in an anti-clockwise direction. This singing is also found among the Tswana. Singing game.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Piroena eo ke e bireng (The language I speak)

- Relechate Ntsolo and Jacquot Mokete, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Relechate Ntsolo and Jacquot Mokete , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Berea f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161002 , vital:40579 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-04
  • Description: "This language I speak, you speak without knowing it. In the battle of tongues, I should have been a lawyer. The language which is widely understood. You should have made holes in the mountains, so that I could go in and see the country between Natal and Aooeng. And the land between Winburg and Bloemfontein." "Aooeng" means 'the place where people say Aooeng'. i.e. the Eastern Free State, a reference to their mode of speech or dialect. Walking song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Mangoane phutholla kobo (Stretch out the blanket, Aunt)

- not defined, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: not defined , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161303 , vital:40614 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-06
  • Description: "Aunt, stretch out the blanket. There are two of us. Stretch out the blanket, I will be coming, I am going out to smoke. When I leave here, going away. Montsala remain here and look after my children. Look after Mamotolo and Malerato and Toma. Toma, look after these children of mine particulary Mamotolo and Malerato. I looks as if I will be going away. I feel I am going. I really feel I will be crossing the river." 'To cross the river' in Sesotho means "I will be going to the Union of South Africa" with reference to the Calendon river which forms part of the border between the two countries. Women's party song, with clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Lesole lea lema (The soilder is an indulgent man)

- Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Nkhethoa Leuta and Silas Khiba , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161272 , vital:40611 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0103-03
  • Description: "The soilder, Mpoi's relative is a violent man. The cow which has been claimed by Malito custom is a soilder boy. It has happened in spite of the 'cousin' (relationship). We, Mpoi's relatives, are Christians. We have been given the staff of Christianity." The staff or rod is meant to indicate the badge or symbol of the professing person, in this case, his religious association. The Malito custom is such that a thing dropped or neglected can be claimed by another, like 'Snap' in the child's game. Mokorotlo songs to be sung on horseback.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ntoeng (To the war)

- Mpara Masienyane and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mpara Masienyane and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162182 , vital:40817 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-01
  • Description: This Lengae is sung when boys are going up to the initiation school. "Maluke's husband captured Seleke, a cow for which there had been much fighting. A question is asked about Maphaleng's grave. 'Is it where we have been fighting? Who do you say should take me to war? I am afraid when men go out armed.' Men, you do not make sufficient sound. Is it because of all that beard? Lengae men's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ena khotso (This peace)

- Mpara Masienyabe abd large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Mpara Masienyabe abd large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Mokoroane f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162322 , vital:40833 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0106-15
  • Description: "The girl will marry into the Chief's family. This peace! The cows produce nice milk. We, friends of Lesenyebo's brother, Tau, we, of Phakoe's family, speak well. Mother witches, you will not allow us, your aprons (front covers). My child will soon marry into the Chief's family, my Moliehi! There is fighting where it is where there is no fighting. Even at Maseru there is fighting. Initiation song with hand clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1959
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