item Item : Mutshaini 03

Title
Mutshaini
Collector
Blacking, John
Collection
Venda Music: Recorded Examples by John Blacking [enregistrements accompagnant publication, accès en ligne]
Recording date
Jan. 1, 1956 - Dec. 31, 1960
Access type
full

Geographic and cultural informations

Location
Soweto
Population / social group
Venda
Ethnographic context
Mutshaini, a melody for pentatonic reed pipes and drums, played in Meadowlands, Soweto, Johannesburg, by a team led by Petrus Liuvha and Johannes Doboro. Note the introductory call on the phalaphala (see HM, illus. following p. 50), a side-blown horn made from the horn of a sable antelope or kudu. See also HM, Fig. 12, p.97. (3:20)

Musical informations

Number Composition Vernacular name Interprets

Archiving data

Code
CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_003
Original code
BM.1976.014.001:01-03
Item number
03
Remarks
Last modification
Oct. 4, 2013, 8:53 a.m.

Technical data

Media type
Audio