Tshikona

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Title: Tshikona
Performer / Recordist: Eleven Venda men; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Venda (African people); Tsonga (African people); Folk songs, Tsonga; Folk music--South Africa; Field recordings
Description / content note: The drum was beaten by two men, each with one wooden beater. Each player holds one end-blown pipe and adds his single note to the ensemble as with bell ringers. They dance around the drums in an anti-clockwise circle, performing steps in unison changing the routine with different with different movements of the dance. Scale:- 632, 520, 488, 432, 380, 348, 316, 280, 248, 228, 216. Instrumental tune, pipe ensemble, heptatonic with Chikona pipe ensemble and 1 single-headed, pegged drums, closed with two wooden beaters (-14.02103-)
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Venda; Tsonga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- South Africa Sibasa
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1957
Date issued / published: 1957
Identifier: TR193; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:41
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/10962/187674

Item sets: Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series

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