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Timba (Timba, the Wren)

- 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey

Tabiya (A woman's name)

- 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1958
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira, Chikwawa f-rh
  • Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155939 , vital:39933 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-14
  • Description: "Tibiya wanted to give me syphilis. Moses, you, I am sure a swallow has passed by." The singer blames the woman Tabiya for his misfortune and warns his friend Moses of following his example. "A bird has passed this way" being a euphemism clearly understood by the men of the district. Self delectative song with board zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1958

Hugh Tracey memorial service

- (a) Phyllida Wentzel (Speaker), (b) Irene Frongs (Speaker and Performer), Tracey, Andrew T N

  • Authors: (a) Phyllida Wentzel (Speaker) , (b) Irene Frongs (Speaker and Performer) , Tracey, Andrew T N
  • Date: 1977
  • Subjects: Tracey, Hugh , Memorial service , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Saronde Farm f-sa
  • Language: English
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113474 , vital:33780 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC131b-09
  • Description: (a) Reading of Hugh Tracey's Christmas Card printed for him two months ago and the read verse was an extract from the book 'Faith of an artist' , (b) Irene Frongs former Greek student friend singing an ancient lullaby with guitar accompaniment in tribute to Hugh Tracey of work almost forgotten in Greece, this emanating from Hugh Tracey who encouraged her to do the Greek background and its heritage for her thesis
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  • Date Issued: 1977

Nyele

- 17 Tonga men, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Nyele/Horns

- 17 Tonga men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 17 Tonga men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138490 , vital:37642 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR043-14
  • Description: An experimental recording of the Nyele horns, to demonstrate their tuning, the order of their appearance and general scheme of melody. They are commonly played with drums and not by themselves alone, and are employed upon various ceremonial occasions such as funerals and large gatherings. They vary in size from about 5" to 18" long and are taken from a variety of antelope. Names of Nyele pipes (from smallest to largest) 1. Kampeko. 2. Simulya sikiri. 3. Senseku. 4. Jungainga. 5. Pindakati. 6. Muwere. 7. Siamupa. 8. Mpako. 9. Fulwa. 10. Saina. 11. Mulundu chigabana. 12. Gapalikwa. 13. Fumbira momba. 14. Tiabutiabu. 15. Tandamubbgwa. 16. Tandawanyoko. 17. Tukirauso. Horn ensemble with set of 17 Nyele antelope end-blown horns.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Atu pandula Tate Nampongo

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Simon, Kornelia, Dargie, Dave

Kalunga Tate otwe ku pandura, iyaloo

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Justianus, Rosvindis, Dargie, Dave

Ohapu ha Karunga ohap'ombwanawa

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Simon, Kornelia, Dargie, Dave

Tusiroshenda tu pa ombiri

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Nambundunge, Protasius, Dargie, Dave

Farewell Song

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Group Composition, Dargie, Dave

Karunga otshoorameno tshetu

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Nambundunge, Protasius, Dargie, Dave

Onditela

- 2 Men and 3 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Batlomeus, Cecilia, Dargie, Dave

Zumina unditole ulibama (If toy don't love me, send me back to my mother)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

Ndime mukabaryibaryi basankwa (All the young men like me)

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138189 , vital:37605 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-06
  • Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Sheme yasenzana wa mai-we

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

Indakurira shua (I cry for my friend (duet))

- 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 2 Tonga women and 2 young girls , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Tonga (Zambezi people) , Folk songs, Tonga (Zambezi) , Music--Zambia , Africa Zambia Gwembe f-za
  • Language: Tonga
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138198 , vital:37608 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR042-07
  • Description: The grain being pounded was "munga", one of the millets which had first to be sieved in a basket, in order to get rid of the husks. It was poured into the mortar and water was added in order to prevent the powdery meal from flying up. Pounding song with sound of pestle and mortar.
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Indilimbo y' Ingeruzabahizi (The song of the 'Ingeruzabahizi)

- 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1957
  • Subjects: World music , Anthropology , Performing arts , Cultural anthropology , Drum--Performance , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Katanga f-cg
  • Language: Kinyarwanda
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136902 , vital:37439 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR034-12
  • Description: The song refers to the recruiting of the men of Ruanda-Urundi for work on the cooper mines of the Katanga Province in the south of the Congo Belge. The Union Miniere asked the Mwami of Ruanda for strong men for this work and when they arrived at the airfield they asked their leader which way they would travel. "It was not by land nor by water, he replied, but by air they would go." So they were taken from Usumbura to Elisabethville by air. Topical song
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  • Date Issued: 1957

Impunguza matwi (Open your ears)

- 3 Hutu men and Bijyiobenda Simeon, Hugh Tracey

Tate Kalunga ye-ye

- 3 Men and 6 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Kapweja, Johanna, Dargie, Dave

Mwene Jesus Haleluya

- 3 Men and 6 Ladies, Ovambo Folk, Isak, Alexander, Dargie, Dave

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