Ngbakpolo yingo
- Mulapala Kpeli, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mulapala Kpeli, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167286 , vital:41464 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-01
- Description: The old singer is a great favourite in the district, the local Zande enjoying his songs of historical flavour. "Do not go to the village of Yingo, for he is a cruel Chief and makes men suffer." Ngbakpolo is pronounced Bapolo. Topical song with vertical, angular, kundi harp, 5 strings and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mulapala Kpeli, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167286 , vital:41464 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-01
- Description: The old singer is a great favourite in the district, the local Zande enjoying his songs of historical flavour. "Do not go to the village of Yingo, for he is a cruel Chief and makes men suffer." Ngbakpolo is pronounced Bapolo. Topical song with vertical, angular, kundi harp, 5 strings and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Nkorangba eye
- Authors: Ngbandi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166958 , vital:41423 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-9
- Description: These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They are too large and heavy to be to be held between the hands as with the majority of this type and as a consequence the bamboo reeds or tongues are plucked downwards with the tips of the fingers with open palms. It is used as a rythmic rather than a melodic instrument. In our experience only the Pedi of the Northern Transvaal in South Africa play this instrument in a similar manner. The instrument is resonated on a large closed wooden bowl, oval in shape, 17 inches long and a tail 2 inches long. A triangular sound hole is cut into the flat top immediately beneath the free ends of the bamboo notes. It is tuned to a pentatonic scale of the following notes in order from left to right. 296, 148, 268, 134, 228, 200, 178, 256 vs. If 134 vs. is the Tonic, it would indicate thah the player is using both the true harmonc 4th (178 vs) and 5th (200 vs). The beating of the bamboo pole sounds almost like marching feet, and both this and the Ngombi are drowned by the strenght of the voices. Ngbandi dance with 2 Ngombi likembe with bamboo notes, and a long bamboo pole, beaten by several men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Ngbandi men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166958 , vital:41423 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-9
- Description: These Ngombi Likembe (Mbira) are played with the instrument slung from the players shoulders. They are too large and heavy to be to be held between the hands as with the majority of this type and as a consequence the bamboo reeds or tongues are plucked downwards with the tips of the fingers with open palms. It is used as a rythmic rather than a melodic instrument. In our experience only the Pedi of the Northern Transvaal in South Africa play this instrument in a similar manner. The instrument is resonated on a large closed wooden bowl, oval in shape, 17 inches long and a tail 2 inches long. A triangular sound hole is cut into the flat top immediately beneath the free ends of the bamboo notes. It is tuned to a pentatonic scale of the following notes in order from left to right. 296, 148, 268, 134, 228, 200, 178, 256 vs. If 134 vs. is the Tonic, it would indicate thah the player is using both the true harmonc 4th (178 vs) and 5th (200 vs). The beating of the bamboo pole sounds almost like marching feet, and both this and the Ngombi are drowned by the strenght of the voices. Ngbandi dance with 2 Ngombi likembe with bamboo notes, and a long bamboo pole, beaten by several men.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Odjea
- Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
- Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Njenje and Medje tipoyi carriers , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Medje f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166788 , vital:41404 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0120-05
- Description: "Come quickly father, we are fighting with a leopard." Any subject can be the theme for a sedan chair song. The four carriers walk in file, each pair lifting the chair by means of a yoke, before and after, with the chair itself in between. Relief carriers walk in front and behind. Work song with basket rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Tamatsaro
- Drummers of Chief Mongika, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169103 , vital:41684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-05
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Drummers of Chief Mongika , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Gombari f-cg
- Language: Mangbetu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169103 , vital:41684 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0129-05
- Description: Away from the Congo river itself it appears that the art of sending drum messages deteriorates into the sendng of signals only, the former being based upon the tonality of the individual words comprising the sentences transmitted, the latter comprising pre-set phrases and rhythms to which certain significance is attached. The signals may have risen from messages in the past but the skill of 'talking' on the drums has almost if not entirely vanished among the Mangbele. The significance ofthe 'Tamatsaro' signal was not explained. Drum rhythms or signals with 2 slit drums, 2 large pod shaped slit drums, 2 long cyclindrical drums.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Yawora nangba eni gumbo dai kukise
- Ngbanda Mandefu and Kumbazingi Louis, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ngbanda Mandefu and Kumbazingi Louis , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167016 , vital:41429 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-15
- Description: "Chief Yawora, you do not need to listen to those who nerely want something of you." The tuning of the Isanzo was pentatonic, the scale being 624, 536, 448, 392, 328, 292, 268, 224, 196, 164 vs. The player said he was not able to sing and play at the same time. Tune played on Isanzo likembe (Mbira) of 10 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Ngbanda Mandefu and Kumbazingi Louis , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Ngbandi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167016 , vital:41429 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-15
- Description: "Chief Yawora, you do not need to listen to those who nerely want something of you." The tuning of the Isanzo was pentatonic, the scale being 624, 536, 448, 392, 328, 292, 268, 224, 196, 164 vs. The player said he was not able to sing and play at the same time. Tune played on Isanzo likembe (Mbira) of 10 notes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
Zilo
- Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167306 , vital:41466 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-02
- Description: The old singer is a great favourite in the district, the local Zande enjoying his songs of historical flavour. "Zilo went to the Chief to plead forgiveness for his son. The Chief forgave him on condition that he troubled the people no more and became the Chief's servant." The membrane of the harp is made of the ear of an elephant, laced onto the instrument. The Zande have a wild military past and ruled a large tract of country along both sides of the Congo-Sudan border. Topical song with vertical, angular, kundi harp, 5 strings and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952
- Authors: Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1952
- Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
- Language: Zande
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167306 , vital:41466 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-02
- Description: The old singer is a great favourite in the district, the local Zande enjoying his songs of historical flavour. "Zilo went to the Chief to plead forgiveness for his son. The Chief forgave him on condition that he troubled the people no more and became the Chief's servant." The membrane of the harp is made of the ear of an elephant, laced onto the instrument. The Zande have a wild military past and ruled a large tract of country along both sides of the Congo-Sudan border. Topical song with vertical, angular, kundi harp, 5 strings and hand clapping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1952