MR.1970.17.47-A9

Basic facts:

country	province	region	village	people	group	date	collector
Lesotho		Berea		Basotho		1959	Hugh Tracey

Language and title:

original language: Sotho
title in original language: Piroena eo ke e bireng
title in English: This language I speak

Musical composition:

type	# performers	instrument (type)	singing voice
Group	2	-	MALE

Characteristics:

general:
function: walking song
length: 3:06 min.

Performers:

Jacquot Mokete, Ralechate Ntsolo

Fragment:

not available online

Remarks:

Reference AMA. TR-101
"This language I speak, you speak without knowing it. In the battle of tongues, I should have been a lawyer. The language which is widely understood. You should have made holes in the mountains so that I could go in and see the country between Natal and Aooeng and the land between Winburg and Bloemfontijn." "Aooeng" means "the place where people say 'Aooeng'", i.e. the Eastern Free State, a reference to their mode of speech, or dialect.

Tempo:

average	123.79
median	124.22
minimum	93.75
maximum	157.89
standaard deviation	11.76
regression factor	-0.09

Pitch:

Tessitura

Octave reduced tone scale

All pitch candidates

Melodic progress (fragment)