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Ngolo alila (Track)
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The canoes of the Wagenya are large dugouts, often 60 feet in length and about 30 to 50 inches in width. They can hold as many as 70 - 100 paddlers on festive occasions and have been made famous of recent years by their appearance in films such as "Sander
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Ngoma drum rhythms (Joined) (Field Card)
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The first rhythm was based upon the words of a lullaby 'Mwana hai yo hee.' 'Keep silent my child.' The second had no word base. The drums were all played by women standing in a circle with their drums held between their knees. They played with great vitality. The drums varied from about 12" across to small ones of...
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Ngoma drum rhythms (Joined) (Track)
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The first rhythm was based upon the words of a lullaby 'Mwana hai yo hee.' 'Keep silent my child.' The second had no word base. The drums were all played by women standing in a circle with their drums held between their knees. They played with great vitality. The drums varied from about 12" across to small ones of...
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Ngoma dze ngororombe (Track)
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This remarkably efficient syncopating drummer gives a brilliant display on two drums, Mutumba and Jenje, accompanied by a ground played on Usindi and Karipi-Karipi. The player of the latter was blind.
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Ngoma (I) (Field Card)
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The tuning of the horns seems to be entirely haphazard and is controlled by the fortuitous length and shape of the horns employed. The smaller boys played the shorter horns and the larger boys the longer horns. The bass horns needing more breath to blow them. This is a very wild kind of dance, with everyone dancin...
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Ngoma ya bantwana (Field Card)
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A diviner arrived in person but declined to sing with the women who were all sitting around on the floor of the hut, about 80 of them. "Mamilambo" is said to be a spirit or charm in the shape of a snake, which the people buy from the diviners in order to obtain good luck and get rich - so it was explained. The mar...
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Ngoma ya bantwana (Track)
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This lullaby was sung by about 50 mothers and grandmothers and one man. "Tula ntwana mwukulila." "Be quite child and go to sleep."
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Ngoma ya kare I (Field Card)
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The Mbira is not played for the dance itself, these two tunes being taken from the melodies used by the dancers. The tumbling dance of these Ndau people is very popular at the mines of Johannesburg. The tuning of the Mbira was: -- 368, 328, 288, 252, 216, 202, 184 vs.
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Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi (Field Card)
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This attractive and delightful little melody may well form the motif of some future Swazi composition of much larger proportion. The two elderly Swati women who sang it were friends and little know how excellent was their rustic melody.
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Ngoneni ngoneni bakithi (Track)
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This attractive and delightful little melody may well form the motif of some future Swazi composition of much larger proportion. The two elderly Swati women who sang it were friends and little know how excellent was their rustic melody.
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