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Abagungu (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR133 (1950) , 1 page(s)

Tunes, like the bosun's piping in the navy, which drum and pipe the Mukama as he leaves his Kikale (house) to go his rounds or visit the Council Chamber or Court. The Nsegu pipes are made in two sections and joined together by binding with hide, or iguana skin which is shrunk or bound onto the two halves.

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Bagbane (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR122 (1952) , 1 page(s)

"I have paid my money, now you pay yours."

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Boyoka Malinga I (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR126 (1952) , 1 page(s)

This tune is also an attempt to transpose a popular guitar tune well-known in S. Congo and elsewhere onto the Likembe (Mbira) of the district or vice versa. This is made possible by the fact that locally the Bira tribe uses a "heptatonic" scale.

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Boyoka Malinga II (short version) (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR126 (1952) , 1 page(s)

As it is not certain whether the guitar or the Likembe version is the original "Boyoka malinga," a short extract of the guitar song is included here for reference. It was recorded in the southern Congo over a thousand miles south, six months previously. It can be heard in full on the I.L.A.M. Music of Africa seri...

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Bwemba nkwagala nkugamba (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR138 (1952) , 2 page(s)

I tell you when I love you.'

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Chelewa (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR126 (1952) , 1 page(s)

"I want to marry Chelewa, but Chelewa refuses. Now I am forlorn."

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Chimwanikoda (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR173 (1949) , 2 page(s)

An unusual musical bow on account of the use of a bridge with which to divide the string into two segments and convey the sound direct to a small drum like resonator attached to the bow near its center. This simple little bow is played with an ox tail bow near the point of stress. A thin stick is inserted between...

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Chitsope movement (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR011 , 1 page(s)

The word 'Chitsope' means a wild energetic dance, or is used to denote such a dance. The words are spoken before the items. This dance is performed by the younger people on happy occasions, especially as an informal dance in the evenings. It is danced by both sexes, unlike the Ngodo which is a man's dance, and is...

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Flute Tune Eight (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR127 (1952) , 2 page(s)

Herdman's tunes from the highlands on the eastern border of the Congo where the hjills run alongside the great western rift opposite the Ruwenzori Mountains. This remarkable player was a somewhat 'simple' herdsman. He plays his flute all day to his cattle

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Flute Tune Five (Field Card)

of International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Hugh Tracey Fieldwork Collection and the Sound of Africa Series, TR127 (1952) , 2 page(s)

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