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The king's musicians : royalist music of Buganda-Uganda.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 34662
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Series:
- Topic world series
- World series
- Language:
- English
- Ganda
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Uganda.
- Music.
- Uganda.
- Music--Uganda--Buganda.
- Songs, Ganda--Uganda.
- Songs, Ganda.
- Uganda--Buganda.
- Ethnic music recordings--Uganda.
- Ethnic music recordings--Uganda--Buganda.
- Ethnic music recordings, Ganda--Uganda.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Uganda.
- Ethnic music recordings--Uganda--Buganda.
- Ethnic music recordings, Ganda--Uganda.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Royalist music of Buganda-Uganda
- Place of Publication:
- London : Topic Records, [2003]
- Language Note:
- The vocal works sung in Ganda.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Royal drum beat and praise shout (Leewo Sitaata Sozi)
- Tweyanzizza = We thank you (Albert Ssempeke, endogo (lyre) ; Ludovico Serwanga, ndingidi (tube fiddle) ; nankasa (drum) ensemble)
- Wedding dance at Bukoloota village (Albert Ssempeke and gourp)
- Ku nsiko yange = In my jungle (played on the Kabaka's akadinda xylophone)
- Ku nsiko yange = In my jungle (Ssensamba, voice ; Blasio Busuulwa, endere (flute))
- Ku nsiko yange = In my jungle (Blasio Busuulwa, endere)
- Ssematimba ne kikwabanga (Abalere ba Kabaka, flautists of the king)
- The late Evalisto Muyinda telling the story of Ssematimba and Kikwabanga
- Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga (Ssensamba, voice ; Blasio Busuulwa ; drummers)
- Ensiriba ya munnange Katego = The amulet of my friend Katego (Albert Ssempeke, ennanga (bow harp))
- Omussi w'enswa = Killer of termites (Akadinda song by Sheikh Burukan Kiwuuwa and team)
- Veneneka ; Nagenda kasana nga bulaba = I will go during daylight (Wilson Ssempirwa, Edward Musoke, Kyobe, entaala (xylophone))
- Gganga alula = Ganga had a narrow escape (Albert Ssempeke, ennanga)
- Akawologoma = Little lion : and drum conversation (Evalisto Muyinda, drums)
- Atodde enyama = He has taken meat (Abasaasi be Bamunanika ensemble)
- Agenda n'omulungi azaawa (Temutewo Mukasa, ennanga).
- Notes:
- Music from the court of Edward Mutesa II (deposed 1966), performed by former court musicians; also includes efforts at reviving the tradition from 1987 on.
- "From the international music collection of the British Library sound archive"-- container.
- Recorded by Peter Cooke and Klaus Wachsmann in Uganda and Edinburgh.
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Peter Cooke and Klause Wachsmann, with historical information, bibliography, and Luganda texts with English translations (23 p.) inserted in container.
- OCLC:
- 54910222
- Publisher Number:
- TSCD925 Topic Records
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