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Muli barupiya

Mushaga mzima

  • 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/10962/171691 , vital:42112 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR143-01
  • 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. This tune is used for special ceremonial occasions. 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

Mushaya Mzima

Music for the speech

Musingasinga yakora egali

Musingasinga yakora egali

Musingasingu yakora egali I

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169838 , vital:41829 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-09
  • Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Musingasingu yakora egali II

  • Authors: Misaki Muswankuli and Ruli men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Kigumba Gombolole f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169843 , vital:41830 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0133-10
  • Description: In this record the players were brought in and out one after the other to show how the music is built up. The three players sitting on the one side of the xylophone, the 'leader', the 'wife and the man' all play the same melody in the three octaves. The player on the opposite side, the 'mixer' plays a contra-melody. Each can be distinctly heard in the record. Ntara dance with Ntara xylophone, 16 loose notes on temporary banana stalk supports.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Mutitira

Mutitira

Mutitira (Happiness)

  • Authors: S. Ruhume, Akiki with Toro men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1950
  • Subjects: Music--Uganda , Nyoro (African people) , Nyankole (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Bukuku f-ug
  • Language: Nyoro , Nyankole
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170373 , vital:41914 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0136-01
  • Description: "The bird has seen its friend, that is why it is happy." This means that the host at the party is happy with his friends. The Mateguru dance is frequently performed at drinking parties. The song makes a very jolly round. Mateguru dance song for men and women with Emugudu cylindrical drum, footed, pegged, one conical drum laced, single, played with hands.
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  • Date Issued: 1950

Muyaga (Parts 1-4)

  • 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

Mwanamwana talikumpa omoyo

Naba aninduga Kilanja

Naba ninduga Kihanja

Naba nsibire ntamboine

Nali Mbengile

Ndamukiza aba kayanga

Ndamukiza aba Kayanga

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