Add to ORKG"I am afraid of being beaten." The instrument is the 5 stringed Bonguma horizontal, arched harp, the bowl is made of wooden trough. The performer returned his instrument between the first and second song. The second tuning is:- 356, 328, 288, 256, 208. Topical song with harp
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left ...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...
"I loved a girl but she did not behave well, so now I love her no longer." The instrument is the 5 s...
Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by a bonguma harp (5 strings)
"Wherever he went he found people talking ill of him.Why, he asks, should they do so about an innoce...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"I will not have anything to do with beer." This old well meaning phrase rings all too hollow in any...
Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton...
"A soilder of Ngbazu (Chief Gatanga's father) reported to Ngbazua's elder brother Dagatanga, also a ...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, ...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left ...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...
"I loved a girl but she did not behave well, so now I love her no longer." The instrument is the 5 s...
Indigenous topical folk song with singing accompanied by a bonguma harp (5 strings)
"Wherever he went he found people talking ill of him.Why, he asks, should they do so about an innoce...
"There was a certain magician who declared that a lion could be killed by the bare hands alone. No o...
Unlike most harps of this design, this one was held upright with the point of the body on the perfor...
Eriya Bakwasa is an expert on the playing of the traditional horizontal harp. In this song he sings ...
"I will not have anything to do with beer." This old well meaning phrase rings all too hollow in any...
Cotton id one of the best cash crops in this most fertile district and this song concerns the cotton...
"A soilder of Ngbazu (Chief Gatanga's father) reported to Ngbazua's elder brother Dagatanga, also a ...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
"I made this song for a friend who was not my brother." The tuning of the harp was:- 352, 324, 288, ...
The tuning of this little Nile valley harp is interesting, viz:- 396, 324, 292, 252, 224, vs. as it ...
This strange and rather unmusical instrument is a plain J shaped bow of round section. The long arm ...
The Chibvelani bow was strung with Ilala palm leaf and the player used all four fingers of the left ...
"A mouse came to my house and stole the food from my pot." The singer yodells in typically African f...