Marcha

Title: Marcha
Performer / Recordist: Timoses, Comecado des Amigos; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Folk music--Africa; Music--Mozambique; Tonga language (Inhambane); Folk dance music; Field recordings
Description / content note: Small dance groups such as this one are given to making impromptu patriotic speeches and to imitating the sound of the drums and trumphets of the local army band with their home made drums and singing horns. No one can say when singing horns were first introduced to this region. Speech in Portuguese and imitation military march, with 4 singing horns, 1 bass Gulu drum, 2 small drums fixed together and bell.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Gitonga
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa -- Mozambique Maxixe
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1963
Date issued / published: 1963
Identifier: TR196; 10
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:01:50
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/10962/189661