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- Ndulu with Kamba boys and girls, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Ndulu with Kamba boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176022 , vital:42653 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-15
- Description: A song in a definite mode, with an interesting melodic line and a rhythm which defies easy analysis. Circumcision song for boys and girls.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Ndulu with Kamba boys and girls , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176022 , vital:42653 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-15
- Description: A song in a definite mode, with an interesting melodic line and a rhythm which defies easy analysis. Circumcision song for boys and girls.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wathi wa mwita mwendwa
- Munyithya wa Kyenze, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175856 , vital:42631 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-05
- Description: "I love you so Munanie, I do not know where I am. If a man is hated by the Kamba many bad things may be said about him. But it does not matter if they turn your heart from me, you will still come to my hut.". The singer uses his lute as a rhythmic rather than a melodic instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the two basic notes of his lute, but the interval may bear some constant relationship which is not discernable to a foreign ear at first hearing. On the other hand the lute may be considered as a two note 'drone' to the melody. It will be noticed that the pitch of his lute slightly lower in this and the next song "Musenga." Love song, with Mbebe, one string, bowed lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Munyithya wa Kyenze , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175856 , vital:42631 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-05
- Description: "I love you so Munanie, I do not know where I am. If a man is hated by the Kamba many bad things may be said about him. But it does not matter if they turn your heart from me, you will still come to my hut.". The singer uses his lute as a rhythmic rather than a melodic instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the instrument. His voice appears to be pitched well above the two basic notes of his lute, but the interval may bear some constant relationship which is not discernable to a foreign ear at first hearing. On the other hand the lute may be considered as a two note 'drone' to the melody. It will be noticed that the pitch of his lute slightly lower in this and the next song "Musenga." Love song, with Mbebe, one string, bowed lute.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wathi wa Ngethi
- Kanyense Muange, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Kanyense Muange , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175986 , vital:42650 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-13
- Description: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Kanyense Muange , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175986 , vital:42650 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-13
- Description: Mwali is the name for the traditional way of retailing or chanting a legend, and Mwathi is a song. The singer boasts that he alone is the best singer of the district and greets his clever friends who make decorations for the dancers. In his second item he describes also the rifles he carried as a soilder. Praise chant.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wathi wa ota
- Mutio wa Katuma, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Mutio wa Katuma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175889 , vital:42635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-07
- Description: This musical bow is a plain bow, loosely strung and strained by means of a half section gourd, which is situated between the bow and the wire string. The concave side is held against the bow, the convex against the string. The singer sings into this hollow gourd and beats the string with a light stick producing one note only. Other players may beat both segments of the string thus producing two fundamental notes Divination song, with musical bow, strained and resonated with half gourd.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Mutio wa Katuma , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk songs, Kamba , Kamba (African people) , Folk music--Kenya , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Kenya Machakos f-ke
- Language: Kamba
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175889 , vital:42635 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR160-07
- Description: This musical bow is a plain bow, loosely strung and strained by means of a half section gourd, which is situated between the bow and the wire string. The concave side is held against the bow, the convex against the string. The singer sings into this hollow gourd and beats the string with a light stick producing one note only. Other players may beat both segments of the string thus producing two fundamental notes Divination song, with musical bow, strained and resonated with half gourd.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950