Abagenyi baizire

Title: Abagenyi baizire
Performer / Recordist: Stephen Kaholya and Nyoro men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Music--Uganda; Nyoro (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: "The visitors have arrived", a welcome to the visitors at a party. The Engwara horns are built up of sections of gourds bound together with plantain string and re-inforced longitudinally by lathes of bamboo. The are side blown and have a hole at the small end so as to produce two notes each. They vary in size from about 12 inches to approximately 36 inches. Engwara N'orunyege dance song for men, with Engwara side blown horns, Ebinyege rattles and clapping.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Nyoro
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Uganda Hoima
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR0132; 16
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:26
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169747