Mulavu

Title: Mulavu
Performer / Recordist: S. Mondo; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Music--Uganda; Soga (African people); Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: A certain Gombolola chief named Mulavu is said to have ordered his people to uproot the groundnuts and other crops of the people nearby. They naturally objected, and reported him first to the Saza county chief and then to the District Commissioner who severly reprimanded him. The tuning of the instrument was, 248, 220, 202, 174, 144, 130, 110, 101 but the order of the notes themselves on the instrument does not follow the sequence of the scale. Topical song, with Ntongoli 8 string lyre.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Soga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Uganda Iganga
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR142; 5
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:42
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/10962/171534