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MR.1970.17.48-B4
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: Lithoko tsa hae
title in English: Praise of himself
Musical composition:
| type | # performers | instrument (type) | singing voice |
| Solo | 1 | - |
MALE |
Characteristics:
general:
function: praise song
length: 1:52 min.
Performers:
James Mofokeng
Fragment:
not available online
Remarks:
"The Sound of Africa Series - Sons d'Afrique Series"
Reference AMA. TR-102
These praises were personal and referred to the speaker and opened the divining procedure which followed. The small ground of diviners was composed of a man and two woman all wearing their traditional diviner's costume and beads. The older woman wore a skin cap; the younger one's long dress was of cloth treated with red ochre and lightly embroidered and decorated with white beads.
Tempo:
|
| average | 123.1 |
| median | 123.84 |
| minimum | 98.36 |
| maximum | 146.34 |
| standaard deviation | 10.29 |
| regression factor | -0.1 |
|
Pitch:
Tessitura
Octave reduced tone scale
All pitch candidates
Melodic progress (fragment)
