Ngorombe

Title: Ngorombe
Performer / Recordist: Several boys with Nyere flutes; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Shona (African people); Folk music--Zimbabwe; Field recordings
Description / content note: The Zezuru play ensembles of flutes, each player having two or three loose end blown flutes which blows in his turn interpolating his notes at the right moments in the melody after the fashion of bell ringers. The players perform a number of variations interpreting voiced notes into the sequence of pipe notes. Ngorombe flute dance.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Shona
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Zimbabwe; Africa Zimbabwe Salisbury
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1949
Date issued / published: 1949
Identifier: TR173; 3
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:00
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/10962/180316