Dikumbi (Field Card)

Name: Dikumbi (Field Card)
Author: Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977

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Field of Interest: World Music
Copyright Message: Material sourced from the International Library of African Music. Copyright International Library of African Music.
Description: The music of this region, which includes a part of northwestern Northern Rhodesia, southern Congo and Angola, is quite distinctive on account of the melodic structure and local sense of harmony. No Bantu other than the group of tribes which inhabit this small area care for Luchazi music, rejecting it utterly as incomprehensible. The tuning of the Chisanzhi was: -- 512, 424, 388, 348, 320, 276, 256 vs. The array of notes or reeds was set out four on the side and the sequence of the scale was alternate from left to right. The two outside reeds being the same pitch 512 vs. This arrangement is convenient for playing the runs as heard in this recording, with alternating thumbs.
Content Type: Field notes
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Hugh Tracey, 1903-1977
Format: Text
Sub Genre: Dance, Song
Page Count: 2
Series Number: TR184
Subject: World Music, Anthropology, Music & Performing Arts, Social Sciences, Africa, Cultural anthropology, Dance, Song, Mbira, Mbira, chizanshi, Whistle, África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Kabompo, North-Western Province (Zambia)
Keywords and Translated Subjects: África, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural