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Muyaga (Parts 1-4)

- Addalla Feza Ibraim, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Addalla Feza Ibraim , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172491 , vital:42209 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR146-02
  • Description: The lake in this legend is Nyanja, Lake Victoria, the great central African lake. The Haya people live on the south western shore of the lake in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika and are well known as fishermen plying their calling in sewn plank canoes. "There was once a Chief's young wife, Mirembe who did not love the man to whom she had married by her father and she fell in love with the handsome son of another chief, whose name was Kitungi. She called to Kitungi to come to her like the wind over the lake. A recitative Legend, with Nanga trough zither, 7 notes.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mwanamwana talikumpa omoya

- Luhanga Magezi with Haya children, Hugh Tracey

Naba aninduga Kilanja

- Felisiano Karungula with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Naba nsibire ntamboine

- Abdalla Feza Ibrahim, Hugh Tracey

Ndwaile

- Mpabuka Ibanda with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera, Hugh Tracey

Nebugana

- Katondaya Ishozi, Hugh Tracey

Ngondo

- Mjuju Kashengereire with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

Ninkutina

- Kabyoma Mashulamo with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Nkete

- Eliazale Kazinduki, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Eliazale Kazinduki , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukoba f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171700 , vital:42113 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-02
  • Description: These horns, Makondere, are made of horn and of calabash gourds combined, bound together with skin (mostly cows tail) to keep the joints tight. They are cut open across the small end where a finger hole makes two notes possible on each horn. The mouthpiece is cut rectangularly on the side of the horn near the small end. These Makondere horn bands are now played upon special occasions at the chief's place. In the old days, they say, they were played after fighting when they came to report to the chief how they had fared. Victory song, after fighting with Makondere side blown horns, 1 conical laced drum (-14.22303-), 1 cylindrical, footed, pegged drum (14.01101-).
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkingulila ngende

- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/171899 , vital:42136 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR144-01
  • Description: The fishermen haul in their nets onto the shore and call to each other instructions and encoragement. Lake Victoria is called Nyanja by the Haya people. "Open the door and let me out, I want to go to the village beyond." The singing of the fishermen as they go fishing out on the lake at night is a feature of the district. Their voices can be heard for miles across the quiet waters of the lake in behind the islands which protect their bay. They used a drum, they said, to help their singing as normally they would beat the gunwale of their canoe with the paddles. Fishing song, with conical laced drum beaten with sticks and clapping.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Nkulagilienye omwaitu

- Norobeti Michaili with Haya boys, Hugh Tracey

Nkurukumbi

- Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women, Hugh Tracey

Nyamwiza omurongo

- Laurenti Kamwabwa with Haya boys and girls, Hugh Tracey

Nyegera

- Nyakato Mwaga with Haya women / Chief Lutinwa, Gera, Hugh Tracey

Omtwale Kasha

- Ernest Kibuka with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Omugere

- Mwendera Kaijape with Haya women, Hugh Tracey

Owa Kalema

- Kyomile Kabanyolekile with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Rwakagasha

- Ruthahindurwa Lukuka, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Ruthahindurwa Lukuka , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Haya (African people) , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Tanzania / Uganda Gera / Bukoba f-tz / f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Haya
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/172316 , vital:42187 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR145-11
  • Description: A praise song in honour of the singer's father who was a well-to-do man of the ruling class in this Bukoba country. In this song the sound of the body of the Zither vibrating against the external resonator, upturned gourd or wooden bowl, can be heard. This deep noted Nanja is tuned:- 176, 160, 144, 136, 124, 106 vs. The seveth note was not well in tune as it was too low for the weight of the string to sound properly. Praise song with Nanga trough zither.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Topima

- Kagaruki Nkokolo with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

Umushuma

- Eliasi Karuandila with Haya men, Hugh Tracey

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