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MR.1970.17.23-A6
Basic facts:
| country |
province |
region |
village |
people |
group |
date |
collector |
| Malawi | | Kasungu | | Nyanja | Chewa | 1958 | Hugh Tracey |
Language and title:
original language: Nyanja/Chewa
title in original language: Nguwo yanga
title in English: My cloth
Musical composition:
| type | # performers | instrument (type) | singing voice |
| Group | unknown | - |
GIRL |
| Group | unknown | - |
BOY |
Characteristics:
general:
function: lullaby
length: 1:49 min.
Performers:
unknown
Fragment:
not available online
Remarks:
"The Sound of Africa Series - Sons d'Afrique Series"
Reference AMA. TR-76
This song is sung by young girls and boys at night in their huts before going to sleep. It appears that there are many such songs of traditional usage. As they fall asleep the singing gets more fitful and finally fades away. "My own cloth, my poor cloth. You laugh at the holes in my cloth." Taken from the days when people only wore a cloth, before Europeans came.
Tempo:
|
| average | 152.57 |
| median | 153.85 |
| minimum | 120 |
| maximum | 181.82 |
| standaard deviation | 10.17 |
| regression factor | -0 |
|
Pitch:
Tessitura
Octave reduced tone scale
All pitch candidates
Melodic progress (fragment)
