item Item : Ndo todou fa 06

Title
Ndo todou fa
Original title / translation
I nearly died
Collector
Blacking, John
Collection
Venda Music: Recorded Examples by John Blacking [enregistrements accompagnant publication, accès en ligne]
Recording date
Jan. 1, 1956 - Dec. 31, 1956
Access type
full

Geographic and cultural informations

Location
Province du Limpopo
Location details
Tshakuma
Population / social group
Venda
Ethnographic context
Ndo todou fa (“I nearly died”), song for tshipai dancing, normally played on pentatonic reed pipes and drums and similar to Mutshaini and Mangovho, here played on a 13-note mbira (mbila tshipai, see HM, illus. facing p. 50), by Wilson Maduna of Ramadi, Tshakhuma, in 1956. (0:20)

Musical informations

Number Composition Vernacular name Interprets

Archiving data

Code
CNRSMH_E_1976_018_001_006
Original code
BM.1976.014.001:01-06
Item number
06
Remarks
Last modification
Oct. 5, 2013, 2:07 p.m.

Technical data

Media type
Audio