Sicembe

Title: Sicembe
Performer / Recordist: Sirifino Mutare; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Lozi (African people); Bemba (African people); Folk songs, Bemba; Field recordings
Description / content note: This type of Mbira has a single manual clearly divided into left and right sections, the left having five notes, and the right six. The scale is carried by both sides in a customary though not regular alternation, thus from high to low the eleven notes are found:- L. R. L. R. R. L. R. R. L. R. L. Topical song, with Mbira, Chilimba ya waBemba
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Lozi; Bemba
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- Zambia Kasama
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1952
Date issued / published: 1952
Identifier: TR182; 14
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:53
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/10962/183780