Andrew Tracey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3737252 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Andrew Tracey |
| PRENOMES | Andrew |
| SOBRENOME | Tracey |
| ASSINATURA | TRACEY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6803-6032 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Mbira of the Ndau
The article, arising from research done in 1972, follows on the author’s series of analyses of the instrumental music of the Shona and Sena peoples of the Zambezi Valley. The analyses in this article focus on the relatively unknown mbira of the Ndau. The article describes its hexatonic note layout, highly variable tunings, and its variations among the Ndau-and Shangana-speaking groups in Southeast Zimbabwe and adjacent regions of Mozambique and S…
Kambazithe Makolekole and his valimba group
The valimba xylophone of the Sena people of Malawi has been described by several writers, notably Kubik in his recently published two-record collection "Opeka Nyimbo". This article aims to amplify these descriptions, by discovering what it is that the young virtuoso players are actually doing on their huge xylophone, with its shimmering patterns of sound at breakneck tempo, its sudden repeated notes, and its rich harmonic sequences that are clear…
Dzi dza Watonga
The system of the mbira
The existence of a harmonically-based system of the mbira in Africa should be of great interest in itself, in comparison with modern African musical preferences, and for Afro-American music studies, where the blues sequence is another highly generative harmonic system. It demonstrates a unique method of getting harmonically “from here to there†, and offers an almost endless potential for Shona composers. In fact, the special tinge, the appeal, of…
Predicted mbira found
This article is written as a follow-up to my article “The original African mbira?†(1972). I can report that an instrument which I predicted to have existed in that article actually did/does exist! In the original article I compared the tuning layouts of two related present-day members of the mbira family, hera, also called matepe, (found in northern Zimbabwe and northeast Zimbabwe into Mozambique) and nyonganyonga (found in central Mozambique, fr…
Transcribing the Venda tshikona reedpipe dance
Starting with the end result, the above transcription is the conclusion I came to after sitting with Laina Gumboreshumba for many hours, watching the videos she made during her recent doctoral research on the tshikona reedpipe dance of the Venda of Limpopo Province in the extreme north of South Africa. The transcription shown in Figure 2 is a skeleton version of the full pipe sound that contains all the information needed to grasp the structure o…
Sounding the Depths
Chopi timbila music
It is surprising that Chopi timbila xylophone music, one of the complex and organised musics of the world, has attracted so little ethnomusicological attention. Its sound hasbeen known to the world since Hugh Tracey's recordings in 1942/3, published first on 78rpm discs in the late 1940s, and his book Chopi Musicians, 1948. Portuguese and other written descriptions from as early as 1560 focus on the visual impression andthe instruments. Recent re…
TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 4, 2010
follow the order that the articles appear; tracks on the CD itself number consecutively from 1.H. Zemp I. "Here's one of them just arrived with us" by Nahoua Silue 2. "Man, you consider yourself a strong man" by Sikaman Soro, first; then by Nahoua Silue 3
Mozambique
Backmatter
Films on African music
Mgodo wa Mkandeni"; "Mgodo wa Mbanguzi"; "The Chopi timbila dance"; "Mbira: the technique of the mbira dza vadzimu with Ephat Mujuru"; "Mbira: mbira dza vadzimu: religion at the family level with Gwanzura Gwenzi"; "Mbira: mbira dza vadzimu: urban and rural ceremonies with Hakurotwi Mude"; "Mbira: mbira dza vadzimu: Dambatsoko, an old cult centre with Muchatera and Ephat Mujuru"; "Mbira: Njari: Karanga songs in Christian ceremonies with Simon Mash…
African Music
Roots of Rhythm
The Nyanga/Ngororombe Panpipe Dance
These dance steps were collected during the last week of November 1990 at Moya Aliya Malamusi's home, Singano Village, Chileka, Malawi, from a small group of Nyungwe refugees from Mozambique. The leader of the group of six players was Sakha Blond, whose original home was Goba. They came across from Chifunga refugee camp, Mwanza, near the Malawi-Mozambique border, at Moya's invitation to stay for a few days. We all stayed together in Donald Kacham…
The International Library of African Music
On the 30th May 1986, Article No. 10253 in the Government Gazette stated that the Section 21 non-profit company known as International Library of African Music (ILAM) had been deregistered. At that moment the long months of negotiation between ILAM and Rhodes University came to an end and ILAM found a permanent home. Dennis Etheredge who, as Secretary of the Chairmanâ€TMs Fund of Anglo-American Corporation, and then as Chairman of the Chamber of …
The Mandinka Balafon
Music from Mozambique
Music from Mozambique III
Mbira
Mgodo wa Mbanguzi and 1973 Mgodo wa Mkandeni
Backmatter
Backmatter
Records and Books for sale
We would like to continue to draw members' attention to the books and records published by the Mrican Music Society and the International Library of Mrican Music.By buying these you can do something practical towards aiding our work in African music. RecordsThe "Music of Africa" Series, the catalogue of which was enclosed in the last number of African M w ic, now consists of 25 records, mainly selections made from the I.L.A.M.'s primary series (s…
The Matepe mbira music of Rhodesia
My aim in this article is to introduce the reader to an instrument, the matepe or bera of Rhodesia, so that he may appreciate something of its music and its musical enjoyment; also that he may be able to make it, if he wishes, and play it himself. The article is accompanied by two records in the International Library of African Music’s ‘Sound of Africa’ Series, Nos. TR. 212 and 213, which I recorded in Rhodesia in June 1969. As a whole it is inte…
The system of the mbira
The existence of a harmonically-based system of the mbira in Africa should be of great interest in itself, in comparison with modern African musical preferences, and for Afro-American music studies, where the blues sequence is another highly generative harmonic system. It demonstrates a unique method of getting harmonically “from here to there†, and offers an almost endless potential for Shona composers. In fact, the special tinge, the appeal, of…
Chopi timbila music
It is surprising that Chopi timbila xylophone music, one of the complex and organised musics of the world, has attracted so little ethnomusicological attention. Its sound hasbeen known to the world since Hugh Tracey's recordings in 1942/3, published first on 78rpm discs in the late 1940s, and his book Chopi Musicians, 1948. Portuguese and other written descriptions from as early as 1560 focus on the visual impression andthe instruments. Recent re…
The Matepe mbira music of Rhodesia
My aim in this article is to introduce the reader to an instrument, the matepe or bera of Rhodesia, so that he may appreciate something of its music and its musical enjoyment; also that he may be able to make it, if he wishes, and play it himself. The article is accompanied by two records in the International Library of African Music’s ‘Sound of Africa’ Series, Nos. TR. 212 and 213, which I recorded in Rhodesia in June 1969. As a whole it is inte…
Codification of African Music and Textbook Project
Mbira music of Jege A. Tapera
Jege A. Tapera, when I knew him in 1961, was a clothing factory worker in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, but, first and foremost, he held himself to be a muridzi wembira, an mbira player. The African inhabitants of the Bulawayo area belong mostly to the Ndebele tribe who do not possess the mbira, but there is also a considerable number of Shona-speaking people resident in Bulawayo itself. Among these, only a very few players of the Mbira are to be …
The Matepe mbira music of Rhodesia
My aim in this article is to introduce the reader to an instrument, the matepe or bera of Rhodesia, so that he may appreciate something of its music and its musical enjoyment; also that he may be able to make it, if he wishes, and play it himself. The article is accompanied by two records in the International Library of African Music’s ‘Sound of Africa’ Series, Nos. TR. 212 and 213, which I recorded in Rhodesia in June 1969. As a whole it is inte…
Codification of African Music and Textbook Project
Backmatter
Records and Books for sale
We would like to continue to draw members' attention to the books and records published by the Mrican Music Society and the International Library of Mrican Music.By buying these you can do something practical towards aiding our work in African music. RecordsThe "Music of Africa" Series, the catalogue of which was enclosed in the last number of African M w ic, now consists of 25 records, mainly selections made from the I.L.A.M.'s primary series (s…
Backmatter
Mgodo wa Mbanguzi and 1973 Mgodo wa Mkandeni
Mbira
Music from Mozambique
Music from Mozambique III
The International Library of African Music
On the 30th May 1986, Article No. 10253 in the Government Gazette stated that the Section 21 non-profit company known as International Library of African Music (ILAM) had been deregistered. At that moment the long months of negotiation between ILAM and Rhodes University came to an end and ILAM found a permanent home. Dennis Etheredge who, as Secretary of the Chairmanâ€TMs Fund of Anglo-American Corporation, and then as Chairman of the Chamber of …
The Mandinka Balafon
The Nyanga/Ngororombe Panpipe Dance
These dance steps were collected during the last week of November 1990 at Moya Aliya Malamusi's home, Singano Village, Chileka, Malawi, from a small group of Nyungwe refugees from Mozambique. The leader of the group of six players was Sakha Blond, whose original home was Goba. They came across from Chifunga refugee camp, Mwanza, near the Malawi-Mozambique border, at Moya's invitation to stay for a few days. We all stayed together in Donald Kacham…
African Music
Roots of Rhythm
Backmatter
Films on African music
Mgodo wa Mkandeni"; "Mgodo wa Mbanguzi"; "The Chopi timbila dance"; "Mbira: the technique of the mbira dza vadzimu with Ephat Mujuru"; "Mbira: mbira dza vadzimu: religion at the family level with Gwanzura Gwenzi"; "Mbira: mbira dza vadzimu: urban and rural ceremonies with Hakurotwi Mude"; "Mbira: mbira dza vadzimu: Dambatsoko, an old cult centre with Muchatera and Ephat Mujuru"; "Mbira: Njari: Karanga songs in Christian ceremonies with Simon Mash…
Mozambique
TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 4, 2010
follow the order that the articles appear; tracks on the CD itself number consecutively from 1.H. Zemp I. "Here's one of them just arrived with us" by Nahoua Silue 2. "Man, you consider yourself a strong man" by Sikaman Soro, first; then by Nahoua Silue 3
Chopi timbila music
It is surprising that Chopi timbila xylophone music, one of the complex and organised musics of the world, has attracted so little ethnomusicological attention. Its sound hasbeen known to the world since Hugh Tracey's recordings in 1942/3, published first on 78rpm discs in the late 1940s, and his book Chopi Musicians, 1948. Portuguese and other written descriptions from as early as 1560 focus on the visual impression andthe instruments. Recent re…
Sounding the Depths
Predicted mbira found
This article is written as a follow-up to my article “The original African mbira?†(1972). I can report that an instrument which I predicted to have existed in that article actually did/does exist! In the original article I compared the tuning layouts of two related present-day members of the mbira family, hera, also called matepe, (found in northern Zimbabwe and northeast Zimbabwe into Mozambique) and nyonganyonga (found in central Mozambique, fr…
Transcribing the Venda tshikona reedpipe dance
Starting with the end result, the above transcription is the conclusion I came to after sitting with Laina Gumboreshumba for many hours, watching the videos she made during her recent doctoral research on the tshikona reedpipe dance of the Venda of Limpopo Province in the extreme north of South Africa. The transcription shown in Figure 2 is a skeleton version of the full pipe sound that contains all the information needed to grasp the structure o…
Dzi dza Watonga
The system of the mbira
The existence of a harmonically-based system of the mbira in Africa should be of great interest in itself, in comparison with modern African musical preferences, and for Afro-American music studies, where the blues sequence is another highly generative harmonic system. It demonstrates a unique method of getting harmonically “from here to there†, and offers an almost endless potential for Shona composers. In fact, the special tinge, the appeal, of…
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