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Meweritiriwe fwabobo

  • Authors: Ngbanda Mandefu and Kumbazingi Louis , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167021 , vital:41430 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0121-16
  • Description: "What can I do to please the people who do not like me." These words are taken from a local popular song. This is a cheerful little tune with typical Zande lilt. The people sitting nearyby began to sing to the second tune which is a well known piece in that village. The tuning of the Isanzo was pentatonic, the scale being 624, 536, 448, 392, 328, 292, 268, 224, 196, 164 vs. The player said he was not able to sing and play at the same time. Tune played on Isanzo likembe (Mbira) of 10 notes.
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Meweritiriwe fwabobo

Midebina vungu

Mo mgdekiriga

Moyambule wa madile dumayo

Mugoi Asole

Nadina

Narone

Ngbakpolo yingo

Ngbakpolo Yingo

Sungi akumba

Wakune Fube Kulaga

Yawora nangba eni gumbo dai kukise-kiasaka

Zadoyo pule badialo fulo

Zilo

Zilo

  • Authors: Mozua Manzali, Chief Gatanga, Mongonika and Zande men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1952
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Mangbetu , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Buta f-cg
  • Language: Zande
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167306 , vital:41466 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0122-02
  • Description: The old singer is a great favourite in the district, the local Zande enjoying his songs of historical flavour. "Zilo went to the Chief to plead forgiveness for his son. The Chief forgave him on condition that he troubled the people no more and became the Chief's servant." The membrane of the harp is made of the ear of an elephant, laced onto the instrument. The Zande have a wild military past and ruled a large tract of country along both sides of the Congo-Sudan border. Topical song with vertical, angular, kundi harp, 5 strings and hand clapping.
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