Add to ORKG"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, 240, 220 vs. Ngbanda Mandefu, the other harp player, a tall bearded man got up and danced in a style reminiscent of a Cossack dance, snapping his fingers and stamping now and then. Bakia Pierre is a large quietly spoken man who works in a Portuguese butchers shop in the small town of Buta. His songs were greeted with great applause and satisfaction by his fellow Zande in the circle. Topical song, with vertical angular Kundi harp, 5 strings
Simple song in typical Luvale style of a kind which must have been sung for centuries throughhout Af...
The Zande are a Sudanic people and are found along the north eastern border of the Congo and Souther...
"There was a man who loved Mugai, daughter of a Chief and wanted to marry her. But she refused him. ...
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It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smalle...
The music for the Zande round dance. All the dancers perform the same steps in unison, short quick s...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
Since the days of Schweinfurth and other early explorers the Azande have been famous for their beaut...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
The raft zither is made out of eight palm midribs joined together. The string is continous being tun...
The music for the Zande round dance. All the dancers perform the same steps in unison, short quick s...
Simple song in typical Luvale style of a kind which must have been sung for centuries throughhout Af...
The Zande are a Sudanic people and are found along the north eastern border of the Congo and Souther...
"There was a man who loved Mugai, daughter of a Chief and wanted to marry her. But she refused him. ...
"He took a wife chosen from amongst the girls of his own village, when she was very young, but anoth...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
"Wherever he went he found people talking ill of him.Why, he asks, should they do so about an innoce...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
The player has taken a Nyasa instrument instead of the local Njari. He explained he found the smalle...
The music for the Zande round dance. All the dancers perform the same steps in unison, short quick s...
It is interesting to note the apparent differences in tone between the scale of the harp and the voi...
Since the days of Schweinfurth and other early explorers the Azande have been famous for their beaut...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
The raft zither is made out of eight palm midribs joined together. The string is continous being tun...
The music for the Zande round dance. All the dancers perform the same steps in unison, short quick s...
Simple song in typical Luvale style of a kind which must have been sung for centuries throughhout Af...
The Zande are a Sudanic people and are found along the north eastern border of the Congo and Souther...
"There was a man who loved Mugai, daughter of a Chief and wanted to marry her. But she refused him. ...