REST OF THE WORLD
ADMIRALTY ISLANDS
- (incl New Guinea) - MELANESIA . Admiralties, Usiai.
Like other Melanesians, these root-pig gardeners were occasional cannibals,
perhaps because of the relative scarcity of available protein in their diet:
FTX-783
AFGHANISTAN -- Badarkchan Tadjiks - drum rhythm
- CANTOMETRICS-915 B1/12
AFRICA -
see also ALGERIA - LIBYA - MOROCCO - TUNISIA - EGYPT -- Sylvia MOORE
World Folksong: FTX-137
- World Instruments: FTX-700
- String Instruments: FTX-801 - Reeds: FTX-802 - Drums: FTX-803 - Flutes: FTX-804 - Xylophones: FTX-805 - Guitars 1: FTX-806 - Animal Stories: FTX-809 - Xylophone orchestras (Ngodo) 1: FTX-810 - Xylo Orch 2: FTX-811 - Gumboot Dancers: FTX-812 - Protest Songs: FTX-813 - Work: FTX-814 - Metal Reeds: FTX-815 - Kenya: Children: 821 - Luo Cattle-herders (The sandbagger likens the chief
to a rock in the lake which stops the fish from passing (and thus feeds the
people). Male solo with mixed group, stamping with legbells/ Highland
Bantu, neighbours of the Kikuyu, perform a dance song about a cattle
raid. Male solo, with female group and male group/ Mozambique
Chopi composers create long compositions for massed xylophones and dancers.
This one contains 15 movements: - Malagasi: Ambilube
tribesmen harmonizing 'praise' songs such as this one addressed to the king.
/ Senegal: Wolof cattle-herding and hoe agriculture,
West Sudanese praise-song type: FTX-781
- The Dogon say 'To mourn the dead is to
sow the grain" and here the cries of mourners fall on the ears irregularly,
like seeds from the hand of the sower/ Tanzania: Gogo. The lead instrument
is a 20-note mbira, with a mechanically boosted bass/ Tanzania:
Hehe. Clapping in rhythmic unison is most common in children's groups. Female
group/ Zimbabwe: Boys in a gym class clash their
wooden dumb-bells together to the rhythm set by their drummer-song-leader/ Malawi,
Sakalava. Hocketing on seven whistles: FTX-789 #19)/
Middle Congo, Kikuyu. A typical example of juxtaposing two different
kinds of voices (one sweet, one harsh) and two different meters / Malawi,
Nsenga. Three women pound grain with pestles and mortars and sing in a relaxed,
breathy vocal style/ E. Africa, Central Sudan, Mayogo.
A dance song for two great circle-files, men inside, women around them, with
music by three slit drums, four deep drums, one double bell and male leader
with mixed chorus/ Mbuti Pygmies singing a party song in their interlocked,
canonic style. Male group/ Bebenzele Pygmies with
a song that was once magic for the hunt and has now become an entertainment
piece. Mixed group: FTX-782
- S. Sudan. The Pari
are semi-nomadic, Nilotic. Male singer with mixed chorus and long horn/ Upper Volta. These two Bambara farmers journey hundreds of
miles every year to play their xylophones at the palace of their king; the bells
on their wrists jingle/ The Luo have a rich diet
of food and music, drawing upon both Bantu and Nilotic traditions. Male solo
and male group/ Banda. After the first rain of the
season, children go single-file around the village clapping and singing this
song for good fortune/ Ivory Coast, Baule. A festival song with mixed chorus and
drums, from a tribe whose music strongly resembles that of the West Indies:
FTX-783
- C.Africa. Pygmy woman
singing at her tasks to maintain contact between people at a distance/ C. Africa.
Ekonda. An extended , poly-parted composition about
how the Ekonda tribe resembles the big-rooted, stately bokunga tree. Male groups/
C Africa, Lake Albert, Mayogo (Gogo). Polyphonic, polyrhythmic overlap
between leader, male and female groups, three mbiras and a basket rattle/ E.
Africa, Hehe. A man of this grain and cattle-raising
folk sings to amuse himself as he strums his zither/ The
Luo, compose praise songs to particular cows or bulls. Male solo with
eight-string lyre and legbells/ C. Africa. The Congo Ekonda with one part of a remarkable choral suite
performed with parallel chords and overlap. Female chorus/ C.Africa Topoke.
Female chorus overlapping/ A Topoke man, from a clan-organized,
extended-family society, sings of his dangerous work - harvesting palm fruit
high up in the trees. Male solo/ E. Africa, Watutsi.
From the tall, imperial Nilotic cattle herders comes this embellished epic about
warlike exploits of by-gone days. Male solo/ Mozambique
Chopi man laments the theft of his palm trees, accompanying himself polyrhythmically
by shaking a little sprig of dry seed pods/ C. Africa. A Babinga
Pygmy woman leads a group in a contrapuntal song that have no words,
but which all present know as a magic song for elephant hunting/ W. Africa, Cameroons. Bafut young men and women make their
own tight, swinging rhythm for a moonlight dance. Female leader with male group/
C. Africa. A Babenzele Pygmy woman singing a magical
chant/ Kenya. An African band sings a little strophe
with string accompaniment:
FTX-784 - West Africa. A Bafut lad sings with the
breath-softened resonance black singers often employ/ E. Africa, Watutsi. Another bard (this one from a black absolute
monarchy) declaims a hunting song. Male solo/ West Africa.
The Malinke are millet farmers, who once built an empire and whose 'praise
songs,' like this one, may be one origin-point of the blues. Male solo with
harp/ S. Africa. A Bushman giraffe-magic song that came to an old
medicine woman in a dream. She sings it with two of her cronies/ W.
Africa, Dahomey. A choir of women sing of the greatness and warlike prowess
of one of the kings of Abomey. The accompaniment is a calabash hung with
strings of cowries and snake vertebrae/ C. Africa, Babenzele
Pygmy. A well-blended, interlocked, poly-parted chorus from a band-organised,
gathering culture, singing with wide voices, large intervals and much repetition:
FTX-785
- C. Africa, Middle Congo, Babanzele Pygmies. A female
yodeling work song from this forest, where women are the chief producers and
are socially dominant/ S. Africa. The Shona are extraordinary musicians, as this
performance by a group of blind singers testifies. The bugle note is produced
by breathing in past the palm leaf string of the musical bow/ E.
Africa. The Pari, one of the many Nilotic herding tribes of Eastern Sudan,
, present a praise song to the chief. 20-30 women with a female leader/ N.
Africa. Saharan Tuareg man accompanied on a one-string fiddle sings,
"All day I have been in pain; I am like a child who hates even his mother's
breast; all I desire is the tall girl whose beauty surpasses the stars in the
Southern Cross"/ S. Africa, Ndau. A composer-bard
sings elegant syncopation against the rippling polyrhythms he thumbs on his
mbira/ C. Africa. Bapende children sing in
an overlapped, parallel-chord, unified, liquid-voiced style/ The
Sudan. The Shilluk - a semi-nomadic people of North-east Africa, who
have a different cultural, linguistic tradition from the black Bantu Africans.
Here a chief tells how he avoided war over a water-hole and led his people to
a peaceful place. Male solo/ C. Africa, Luba. One
of the great confederations of the Central Congo, offers this topical song,
self-accompanied. Male solo with mbira/ C. Africa. Luo,
of Nilotic origin in the hills west of Lake Victoria, sing a gentle ironic love
song to an over-loving wife: "she loves me so much that she forgets her duties
and I have to remind her to go back to work". Male solo with string bowl
lute/ C. Africa. The Hehe, live in dispersed homesteads, in the
arid Rift country. This hoeing song which says 'hunger makes me weak' reflects
the hardship in their lives. Male leader with male group: FTX-786
- W. Africa, Bulu (Fang). A women's dance song performed
by a leader with mellow-voiced chorus and clapped accompaniment/ E.
Africa, Nilotic Kipsigi. Cushites of partly Caucasian descent, who practice
intensive terraced agriculture in the mountains of N.E. Kenya, sing this chorus
in overlapped counterpoint to a six-string lyre accompaniment/ N.W.
Africa. Mauretanian griots (bards) performing
a hanoun, praising the emir, accompanied by a lute and by drumming on
the soundbox of a harp. Male and female soloists/ S.E. Africa. The Chagga exhibit the magnificence of African
mass-singing with its overlapping parts, its fluid harmonies and its surging
power. Male leader with mixed group/ W. Africa, Upper Volta, Gwin. The chief has died and a female
mourner is improvising a funeral lament with the support of her neighbors, accompanied
by the insects of the night: FTX-787
- Kenya Highland Bantu.
The Chagga are cattle herders and terrace farmers, organised into patrilineal
clans (with bride price) and into age-set retinues serving powerful chiefs.
Female leader and female group perform a topical dance song/ Zimbabwe.
The Shona, organized in patrilineages with bride service, built a powerful
cattle-herding kingdom like that of the Zulu. Their performance epitomises the
African playful use of vocal timbre. Male solo, female solo with mbira/
Nilote Luo. A praise song by farmers and cattle-herders with
patrilineal clans and bride price. Male solo with thum (eight-string lyre) and
leg-bells/ S. Ethiopia, Sidamo. are Western Cushites
(the ancient Caucasoids of East Africa) whose country is ruled by a divine king.
has highways for rapid transportation and is surrounded by a palisade. Here
a mixed chorus sings in the yodeling, hocketing style found in so many isolated
cultural pockets of the world, singing the way they play their panpipes (orchestras
of single-noted horns)/ E. Africa, Nilotes. Dinka, a semi-nomadic cattle people,half
a million strong, where the youthful male age-grade is assigned to stay with
the herds. Such complex litanies are most frequent in Black Africa. Female singer/
E. Africa, Sudanic Mayogo. A topical song, voiced with wonderfully resonant
nasality by a chief and his attendants. Basket rattle accompaniment/ South Africa,
Ndau. Descending cadences like these are more frequent
in black African tradition than elsewhere. Male accompanying himself on mbira/
C. Sudan, Mombutu. Male solo with mixed chorus and three thumb pianos/
Zambia, Nsenge. A song for a boy's initiation. Masked dancer,
chorus of men with leg-bells and five drums/ C. Africa. Mbuti
Pygmies, gatherers of the rainforest, sing in their hocketing, yodeling,
interlocked style in a joyful celebration of a girl's first menarche/ E. Africa, Somaliland. Desert camel herders have many songs
for managing their prized, but temperamental animals. This one is to make them
drink. Male chorus/ Kenya Masai. These warriors,
who live on the mixed blood and milk of their cattle, sing an epic narrative.
Male leader with mixed chorus. Drone polyphony/ C. Congo,
Mbuti Pygmies. Three women sing after a fishing trip: FTX-788
- Senegal. Casamence Griot (bard
and topical composer), accompanying himself on the kora (21-string harp-lute).
Male solo with harp-lute/ Shona. In a foiktale a deer sings this song. Mixed group/
Ethiopia, Gomo-Gupe Province. Fifty men of the Cushitic-speaking
Dorze tribe casually sing in four-part polyphony in the yodeling, interlocked
style of the African gatherers/ Ivory Coast, Bedouni Region.
The Baule are famed for their art and music. To my mind, their style is one
of those most often heard in West Indian, traditional folk music. This is music
for initiation, with overlapping choruses, four drums, rattles and a sistra:
FTX-789 - Hugh Tracey Collection: COLUMBIA SL-213 East Africa/ CASS 0048
- Jean Jenkins Intro to African Music Radio 3 1974: CASS-0074 - Rendille
songs (N Kenya) rec by Anders Grum 1981 (see letter
file) CASS-0073 / CASS-0048- Sudan:
Abdel Aziz El MUBARAK (voc & lute) with Azhari Abdel GADIR (p-acc) rec 1980:
ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995 - Central African Republic:
OCORA OCR 43/ CASS 0118 (box) - Kenya: Rendille Nomads rec by Anders
Grum 1981 (see letter file): CASS-0073 - WOMAD Intro to Africa 1985: CASS-0076
Dembo KONTI: 8/11/87: CASS-90-0550 - ELLIPSIS ARTS 3XCD 3301-3302 & 3303
1994"Never Stand Still" - Colin Turnbull's rec of pygmies of Ituri Forest ELLIPSIS ARTS #4020 1995 CD &
Book "Echoes of the Forest" - Louis Sarno's rec of Babenzele
pygmies ELLIPSIS ARTS 3490 1995 (CD inside book)"Bayaka" - Fuday Musa
SUSO: ELLIPSIS ARTS CD3510 1996 "Jali Kunda" (Griots of
West Africa) rec in Mali, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau & Gambia AFRICA rec in Britain -- "Aime Bebe": Nsimba FOGUIS & TAXI PATA PATA Music of Zaire & Zimbabwe NYIRANGONGO
MUSIC CTAX-1 CASS#1222
ALBANIA -Musical Instruments of the World: FTX-700
- Gegs. A woman of this fiercely independent, but
stratified, mountain-shepherd society sings a nina-nana, or lullaby: FTX-785
- An epic ballad set to a one-phrase melody from one of the European strongholds
of the zadruga (the extended family settlement). Male group in unison: FTX-787
- Epic ballad male group in unison: 90916 A2/5 - Yugoslavia rec by PK: COLUMBIA
SL 217 1951/ ROUNDER 1745 (Double CD) 2001 - TINA ROZANC Ensemble: TOPIC TOP
112 (EP) & TOPIC 12-T-154 - Jim Lloyd's tribute to A L Lloyd: 9/11/82 CASS
15-0762
AMAZONIA - BRAZIL
AMERICA - - see under USA - AMERICAN-INDIANS - CAJUN - CANADA - ESKIMO - GREENLAND - NEWFOUNDLAND
- NEW MEXICO - SOUTH AMERICA
ANATOLIA - TURKEY
ANDROS
ISLANDS - DOMINICAN REP
ANGUILLA - Caribbean - see also NEVIS - ANNIE LET GO ME FOWL - DROP PETER DROP (I Lost My Gloves On Saturday Night) - GOOSIE LOST HIS TAIL - HERE WE GO LOOBY LOO - MAN-O-WAR IN THE HARBOUR - THREAD THE NEEDLE
ANTIGUA -
CARIBBEAN
ANTILLES -
CARIBBEAN
APPALACHIANS - USA - ARKANSAS TRAVELLER - BEAR CREEK - BEAUMONT RAG - BILLY IN THE POW GROUND - BLACK MOUNTAIN RAG - BONAPARTE'S RETREAT - BUCK CREEK GIRL(S) - BULL AT THE WAGON - CHINQUIPIN PIE - CINDY - CLUCKIN HEN - CUMBERLAND GAP - CRUEL WILY - DRUNKEN HICCUPS - DRY AND DUSTY - GREY EAGLE - LAST CHANCE - OLD JOE CLARK - ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT - SAIL AWAY LADIES - SALLY GOODIN - SAY OLD MAN CAN YOU PLAY THE FIDDLE? - SNOWBIRD IN THE ASHBANK - SOURWOOD MOUNTAIN - STONY POINT - WHAT DID THE BUZZARD SAY TO THE CROW?
ARAGON & VALENCIA - Recordings - see SPAIN
ARGENTINA -- Gran Chaco. The Matacos
once were warlike mounted hunters of the pampas, raiding white settlements;
in many ways, as in their music, they resemble the North American Plains Indians.
Male Solo:
FTX-786 - Lola Keipja, the last of the Ona - a Patagonian
hunting tribe exterminated by Europeans - performs a spirit possession song:
788 - 90-906 B3/10 - TOPIC TOP-46 (45 EP) LEDA & MARIA Songs & dances -
cass dub of Kitty Turner's 78 rpm disks of South America CASS-0091 BARCLAY 820-054
LOS CALCHAKIS incl Ecuador, Colombo, Peru, Argentine, Bolivia - Raul BARBOZA
(button acc with bandoneon) rec Corrientes followed by 2 Tangos played on the
bandoneon: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
ARMENIA -- Two
duduks (double reeds) in the free rhythm, microtonal, ornamental, glissando
style customary in Old High Culture: FTX-787
- Armenia & Achugh: - OCORA OCR 50 rec Robert
Ataian (Radio)/ CASS-0113 (box) - OCORA OCR-59/ CASS-0105 - 59 Poem chant: Achugla
(Radio)/ CASS-0105 (box)- 66 Chants Liturgiques - 67 Instrumental Music/ CASS-0151
(box)
ARU
ISLANDS - INDONESIA
ASIA -
AFGHANISTAN - ARMENIA - CHINA - INDIA - JAPAN - KOREA - PAKISTAN - RAJASTHAN -
RUSSIA - TAIWAN (Formosa) - TIBET
AUSTRALIA - see
also NEW GUINEA - PAPUA - ABC PRS 1653 SYDNEY Symph Orch: Music of
Percy Grainger - RRCS-131 MELBOURNE Symph Orch: As previous - CASS- 0042-3 &
0045 (Columbia SL-208: Australia & New Guinea) - LARRIKIN LRD-001 (S) 1975
Mining "Man of the Earth"/ CASS-0158 - LARRIKIN LRD-007 Bush Traditions rec
Warren Fahey/ CASS 0154 - LARRIKIN LRD-028 nd CASS#1212 Warren FAHEY & THE
LARRIKINS - LARRIKIN 0LRD-34 Piano Rolls: Percy GRAINGER - LARRIKIN LRD- 9012
(2 LPs) "While the Billy boils" Panorama of Australian Folklore/ CASS-0479
- PIGS WHISKER PWM-004 (c) Robin WILLIAMSON Story of "Wee Jack & Lord
Mayor" ends at Sydney Opera House - rec Asia-Pacific Union Festival of Radio
Folkmusic Radio 12/10/79: CASS-15-0745 - Colin Irwin's radio prog 1988 "Acoustic
Roots": CASS-0351 - Greg CHAMPION Cricket Song/ Eric BOGLE & Band "Harry's
Wife": Radio 2, 24/8/88: CASS-15-0732
AUSTRALIA -- Aborigines -- N. Arnhemland
aborigines ritual summoning the souls of departed heroes. Male solo with sticks/
Marajin. Four old men simultaneously sing variations
on a devotional song, with stick accompaniment: FTX-781/
Arnhemland, Jiwadja. A song describing a big salt-water
fish swimming alone. Male group with horn and sticks/ Arnhemland. A sacred chant
of the Marajin aborigines. Mixed group: FTX-782
Northern Territory, Australia. A Yirrkala tribesman
sings an embellished sacred song for healing the wounded. Male solo with sticks:
FTX-783
- Arnhemland aborigine singing a totemic clan
song about the damala (white sea hawk), swooping down from the clouds and catching
fish. Male solo/ N.E. Australia, near Cape York, Yarrabah.
The old men maintained their dominance in Australian aboriginal society, in
part by elaborate song rituals for totemic, place-attached ancestors, by drastic
genital mutilation in initiation and by early marriage to pre-adolescent girls.
They sing with a very tense, noisy vocal delivery and in a unique cadential
style. Male solo: FTX-784
- Arnhemland aborigines. The old men, who ritually
controlled the clans, made the initiation into ritual expertise a long-drawn-out
process, which gave rise to enormously elaborated musical and choreographic
traditions/ Arnhemland aborigines. A repetitious
male solo with stick accompaniment: FTX-785
- Aborigines. These nomadic gatherers have developed
ceremonialism and, it is said, psychological control and pass on their elaborate,
totemic ritual songs. Male with sticks: FTX-786
- Arnhemland. Sticks accompany the didjeridu. It
plays in unison with the singers performing a terraced melody to an irregular
meter, in unison with each other/ C. Arnhemland.
Semi-professional stickman and songman perform dance music accompanied on the
a large-bore, wooden trumpet requiring great strength and control. Three males:
FTX-787
- Northern Territory Aborigines. The songman
beats two sticks together and the dijeridoo-player breathes rumbling notes from
his hollowed tree branch making music for the evening dance before the musicians
at the campfire - the women a little way off in the shadows - and from time
to time the leading dancer gives a climactic cry. Two male solos with male chorus,
horns and sticks: FTX-789
- ALBATROS VPA-8279 rec Wolfgang Laade 1963-4 Cape York
Peninsula/ CASS-0069 - COLUMBIA SL-208 (& cassette copy) World Library
of Folk & Primitive Music rec by A P Elkin: Arnhem Land, Northern Territory
& Eastern New Guinea - CASS-0068 from Roy Mallet of interview in NY - WOMAD
002 Didgeridoo solo & song - rec in UK -- ARGO ZFB-35 1971 TINKERS
- ZFB-82 1973 Martin WYNDHAM-READ - RPL REC-95 1970 Redd SULLIVAN - LEADER 2019
1970 Martin Wyndham-Read & 2028 solo album - PHILIPS 638-2022 1967 Martin
CARTHY "Streets of Forbes" - TOPIC 12-T-51 1960 A L LLOYD - 12-TS-203
1971 LLoyd, Martin Wyndham- Read & Trevor LUCAS - 12-TS-411 1980 Nic JONES
"Farewell to the Gold" - 12-TS-437 1988 Eric BOGLE - Glen TOMASETTI (voc/gtr)
rec by PK London 1962: "Denis O Reilly" "Jim Jones at Botany Bay"
"Jack Lefroy"
AUSTRIA -- RPL 21668 Ch singing/ Zither &
carillon Kufstein 1954 - Hans-Peter FALKNER (4-row diatonic accordion) with
ATTWENGER incl yodelling & drum: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
AZERBAIJAN --
Female solo with lute. (Russia.#1,C3)/
Azerbaijani have inhabited the East Caucasus
since ancient times. Male solo with strings/ The
quintessence of the florid style of Middle Eastern fine-art song: FTX-785
BAHREIN -- OCORA
OCR-42 Pearl fishers in Persian Gulf/ CASS-0119 (box)
BALEARIC ISLANDS -- IBIZA - MALLORCA - MENORCA - Balearics, Iviza.
Formal glottal ornamentation, unique in West Europe is the hallmark of traditional
song in this former Carthaginian outpost. Like their forebearers, Ivizians devote
their lives to the sea. Female solo with drum: FTX-785
- recs by Alan Lomax incl Mallorca & Ibiza: COLUMBIA
SL-216
BALI - see
also GAMELAN - JAVA -- ARGO ZFB-73 Gamelan orch - SPA-212 World of Travel
(sampler) - CANTOMETRICS 90-012 A2/1 "Kechak" (monkey chant) - B2/6 &
B3/14 Gamelan orch - 90-015 B2/14 Funeral gamelan or Ankhung - COLUMBIA SL-210
Indonesia rec Jaap Kunst/ CASS 0046 - EMI HLP-1 History of Music B5 (a) Gamelan
"Drunken woodpecker" (B) Excerpt of Balinese Theatre (c) from Gamboch -
NONESUCH H-711 "Ketjak" (Ramayana Monkey Chant) - H 2015 Gamelan rec
David Lewiston - OCORA OCR-60 Music & Theatre/ CASS-0153 (box) - OCR-72
Trance dances & music 1971/ CASS-0149 (box) - WOMAD 002 Sasono Mulyo Gamelan
Orch - WARNER WEA KG "Ketjak" (Ramayana Monkey Chant) - Wayang
Gamelan orhestra rec by Jaap Kunst, Ubud, Bali: from COLUMBIA World Library/:
ROUNDER CD 1700 1997
BASQUE COUNTRY,
THE - FRANCE: Ustaritz and SPAIN: Alava, Guipuzcoa & Vizcaya -- IFMC Festival: incl Basque rec 1953: FTX-610- Douglas Kennedy talks about first encounters with their Morris: FTX-481- FTX-493
(on FTX-491) - International Folk Music Council 1953 Festival in both Biarritz,
France & Pamplona, Spain: FTX-606
- FTX-607
("RTR-0452-6) - WESTMINSTER WL-5334 1953 IFMC World Festival Pamplona &
Biarritz 1953 incl Basque,Valencia & Seville (also incl other countries
taking part): FTX-610
- A crowd from the fishermen's guild, just off the boats, demonstrated the solilarity
for which the Basques are famed, in this unrehearsed and spontaneous performance.
(Lomax #21 B6)/ A Basque girl sings a dance tune to the tambourine and alboca
(a form of double oboe). Female solo: FTX-782
- Spanish Basque. For my benefit the bersolari
(verse-maker) began "In America they know nothing about our town". He
then improvised a poem celebrating the beauties of the place: FTX-784
- Spain. A Basque bersolari (poet) improvising
a new verse- an asymmetrical 8-phrase strophe in irregular meter: FTX-785
- The Basque culture and language and their democratic and complementary society
antedate that of Spain. They have fought and are still fighting to maintain
cultural autonomy. A love song from a corn-shucking. Female group: FTX-786
- . Inheritors of a big-family, complementary, cohesive way of life, Basques
are polyphonic choralizers, as for example with this local male choir: FTX-788
- COLUMBIA SL-207 France #20-26 (mainly song - no txistu) & SL-216 Spain
#33-35 (no txistu) - Group rec London 21/8/54: RPL 20500 -
Solo girl dance tune with alboca (double oboe)/ - Improvised
verses by bersolari/ Female love song/ Local male choir - Kepa JUNKERA (melodeon):
ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995 - Musicians of the Town of Pamplona ELKAR-LP-248 (signed by the musicians on their visit to Gloucester)
BELGIUM -- Belgian TV/ Radio BELGIAN R/TV DL
111-427 "Ethnical Music" with Customs incl Binche, Children's Games,
Ballads etc. -Walloon & Flemish songs & dances Vuylsteke coll 1980/ CASS
0140 (box)/ OCORA 558-594 - Blowzabella Band: PLANT LIFE 038 1982 Kolomtanz
(Flemish) - Flemish bagpipes: CASS 0030 - "Bone March" from Brabant
Area: on Radio 2 28/12/88: CASS 60-0547
BERMUDA - Group of men from Andros Island rec by Alan
Lomax, Nassau, Bahamas Aug 1935: ROUNDER CD-11661-1822-2 1999 "Roll him
along" (AAFS 507B)
BHUTAN -- rec
by John Levy 1971 (RPL LP 34691-3)
BOLIVIA - see also CHILE - ECUADOR - PERU --
TUMI 002-8 cassettes - WOMAD-1 1982 Raindrops pattering - cassette of S America
commercial 78rpm disks from Kitty Turner - CASS 0091 BARCLAY 820-054 LOS
CALCHAKIS incl Ecuador, Colombo, Peru, Argentine, Bolivia - "Carnival de los
Andes -1" TUMI C-007 1986 CASS#1223 - K'JARKAS "Sol de Los Andes" TUMI C-008
CASS#1216 - RUMILLAJTA "Hoja de Coca" TUMI SRT-4KC-198 CASS#1217 - RUMILLAJTA
"Pachamama"(Mother Earth) TUMI C-003 CASS#1218 - MALLKU DE LOS ANDES "On the
Wings of the Condor" TUMI C-004 CASS-1219 - KJARKAS "Bolivia" TUMI C-005
CASS-1220 - LOS JAIRAS "Chacaltaya" The Music of the Andes" TUMI c-006
CASS-1221
BORNEO - MALAYSIA
BRAZIL -- The Iawa tribe
perform a song of fishing magic. Mixed group: FTX-781
- Yoruba songs and rites, unremembered
in Nigeria, survive in the cults of Bahia like this hymn to Shango, God of thunder/
Interior Amazonia. Campa. A social dance song by
mixed group with drum/ Interior Amazonia. Coto (Orejon) Indians collectively
wailing over a corpse. Mixed group/ Juruna.
Only a few families remain of these Tupi-speaking fishermen-cultivaters of the
Upper Xingu. Male group: FTX-782-
Ucayali River. The Conibo are a small tribe renowned
for pottery and textile design. This mixed group, led by male with drum accompani-ment,
gives a typically diffuse performance/ - E. Brazil. Cayapo
manioc planters and hunter-fishers Male group, stamping/ E. Brazil, Kraho/ S. America, Jivaro. A shaman,
trying to determine whose magic is responsible for the death of a child, sings
of his power: FTX-783
- N.E. Kraho. This dawn song begins slowly and heavily,
but quickens until at sunrise a powerful sound fills the plaza of the clan-organized,
complementary village: FTX-784
- Interior Amazonia. Jivaro. A woman's love song/
One constant theme of aboriginal life in game-poor Amazonia is the dependence
of women on their hunter mates; here a woman laments her husband's departure/
Xingu River, Shukarramai. Fishing and gardening and
clan organized villages/ Interior Amazonia, Amahuaca.
The banana-festival dance of this tribe, who live in tiny homesteads scattered
through the mountainous jungle. Male group/ Interior Amazonia,
Conibo. The women of this fishing tribe wail over a corpse. Later, custom
demands the body be sealed up in an old canoe and hidden in the jungle. Female
group: FTX-786
- A Jivaro man sings that his wife has
brewed chicha (alcohol) and invites his friends (Head-hunting allies) to drink.
Note yodeling/ The Jivaro live in dispersed, single-family habitations and,
since the men spend much of their time in pursuit of game and heads, the women
are often alone, dreaming and longing for their lovers, as in this song. Male
solo:
FTX-787 - A Jivaro woman sings to the lover who must serve her father for a
long period before he can marry her. Big intervals, melisma and glissando/
Caraja, a riverine fishing tribe. Here masked male dancers entice the
young women to follow them down the sand spit, singing in the low register common
in this region. Male solo/ The Kraho are complementary
gardeners who dwell in big.segmented villages and stage daily rehearsals of
ritual dance and song. Mixed chorus and rattle in parallel polyphony: FTX-788
- Jivaro. A woman sings about the loss of her lover.
Female solo: FTX-789 - Tukuna (Upper Amazon) boys & girls - Trunai
(Xingu river) 90-014 A3/6/B3/12 Shukarrami (Xingu) - Caraja masked male dancers 90-016 B2/2
- HUNGARIAN Nopraje Ethno Museum 1966 Matto Gross (flute) cassette - Bahia L-13
LIB OF CONGRESS - Black Music of S America NONESUCH H-72036 - Renato BORGHETTI
(3-row acc) rec Rio Grande do Sul 1990: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox"
1995 - - Sergio CUEVAS (harp) rec by PK, London 30/3/63: RTR-0405-6/
ARION 30-T-131 - BRAZOS FILMS: "ROOTS OF TEX-MEX MUSIC "Chulas
Fronteras" & "Del Mero Corazon" two films by Les
Blank & Chris Strachwitz: BF-DVD (video) 104 2003
BRITTANY - see also under FRANCE -- WESTMINSTER
WL 5334 1954 (unacc dance song)/ World Festival Biarritz & Pamplona 1951: FTX-610
- COLUMBIA SL 207 1952 France - ANCHE LIBRE (Dastum cassette) 1987 acc players
transcr in book by Bernard LASBLEIZ) - CASS-0056 - A L Lloyd "The Celtic World -
Sound of the Voice" Radio 8/210/68: CASS-0614 - FONTANA 6399-008 9101-500 1975
& 6325-304 1973 Alain STIVELL "from Celtic Roots" - MODELLO 1979 Kesty
"Breton Dance" - MOUEZ-BREIZ 33523 Goodec sisters of Carhaix (unacc incl
song-dance) - 45-111 Catherine GUERN/ Laeiz ROPARS of Poullaouen - 45-134 Jef
PHILIPPE (bombarde) & Yannick ARESSE (biniou) - PHILIPS 6414-406 Alain
STIVELL - Breton songs with fid: RTR-0468 - Alain STIVELL & GUARDIG Sisters
RPL Radio 2 5/7/82: CASS-15-0754 - QUERTZ Breton Group at Sidmouth RPL Radio 2
10/8/88: CASS-90-0549 - Jacques BEAUCHAMP (3 row diatonic accordion): ELLIPSIS
ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
BULGARIA -- Rhodope chain dance involving a whole
village (Raim & Koenig, B2/ Sofia Koledo (Christmas carol) by a trained
city sextet, whose use of harmony may represent an urban innovation. Mixed group:
FTX-781
- FTX-782
- S.E. Bulgaria, Thrace. The bridesmaid sings when
the groom's party arrives to take the bride to church, in a zone where Near
Eastern influence is strong. Female solo/ Thracian women can throw their voices
for a mile across the plains; nowhere do women sing with more full-throated
power than in this land, the legendary home of the Amazons: FTX-785
- As in much of old Europe, much work (and courtship) is done at evening working
parties, where this riddling ballad was sung. Male solo/ A Bulgarian trained
chorus with a koledarski- a pagan mid-winter song where the singer can
offer praise or wish luck or health to the household/ Woman with gaida (one-drone
bagpipe) and kaval (seven-hole flute) performing in the aksak (limping
rhythm) common in the Middle East and Eastern Europe: FTX-786
- N. Bulgarian lament for Giorgi Dimitrov, the Bulgarian hero of the Reichstag
fire scandal, played on the kaval (seven-holed shepherd's flute): FTX-787
- Sofia District. Four young girls go house to house
round the village ritually singing in the spring: FTX-788
- - Sofia District. The clashing seconds, that
figure so prominently in many of the field songs, help to carry the sound far.
Actually, one of the many functions of such songs is to let the people of the
village know that all is well with their women in a distant field. Three women:
FTX-789
- Songs & Dances rec by Deben Bhattacharya: ARGO ZFB-47 1968 - Entertainment
& dance prog BALKANTON 107 - S Bulgaria F/S & Instrum BALKANTON 214
- CANTOMETRICS - THE PENNYWHISTLERS NONESUCH H-72007 & 72024 - Village Music
rec Ethel Raim & Martin Koenig: NONESUCH H-72034 & H 7-11 - coll &
ed A L Lloyd: TOPIC 12-T-107 1964 - Nadia Karadjova: WOMAD TB-3 - LE MYSTERE
DES VOIX BULGARES 4AD (with MADAGASIKANA) Diaphonic Chant incl talk about women's
voices etc: cassetee dub by Chris Dabbs 1988 CASS-0061- National Sound Archive
rec from 1930's of string orch with trumpet: Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4
- Woman's Choir CASS-0034: - women singing in 2nds "Folk on 2" 28/4/88 CASS-90-1051
- Radio 2: 28/12/88: CASS-60-0547 - "Vocal Traditions of Bulgaria: Village songs
from the archives of Radio Sofia SAYDISC CD-SDL-396 1992/ CD-1168 - Ivan KIRFEV
(p-acc) with orchestra/ Traicho SINAPOV (p-acc) playing for wedding (from BALKANTON):
ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
BURMA - Classical piece about the strange and beautiful
flowers of the forest, played on the pattala (xylophone) and flute: FTX-782
- Urban music with the distinctively humorous Burmese touch, performed by a
vocally athletic male singer with oboe, flute, drum and gong frame (12 tuned
gongs): FTX-784
BURUNDI -- OCORA OCR-40 Prizewinner 1968/
CASS-0121 9box) - WOMAD WEA-KG- 8045 Drums of Makebu - Drummers with ECHO &
THE BUNNYMEN - TB2 Burundi girls & drummers
CAMBODIA -- EMI
HLP 1 History of Music - Lullaby with instruments
CAMEROON -- OCORA
OCR-25/ CASS-0126 (box)
CANADA -
see also USA: American Indian - Douglas KENNEDY talks about tour of "The
Folk Five" in 1928: FTX-481-493
(on FTX-491-2) - French Canadian farm girls leader & group/ A Caribou Eskimo shaman singing a magic nonsense chant to
bring luck to the hunt. Male solo: FTX-781
- Newfoundland. A fisherman's dance song resembling
the U.S. fiddle songs/ Cayuga. A Corn Dance song from the Iroquois eight nation confederacy
. Male leader with male chorus and rattle: FTX-783
- Canadian Plains, Blood. The Grass Dance. a war
song in the high-pitched, forceful style common among Amerindian hunters. Male
chorus with drum/. A Nova Scotian remembers one of
the comic British ballads her ancestors brought with them into the New World:
FTX-784
- French Canada. Gaspe. Northern ballad of the
kidnapped maiden/ French Canada fur-trappers paddled
across the continent and back to such gay ballads. Male solo: FTX-785
- Alan MILLS (voc) accomp by Steve BENBOW (gtr): FTX-905
- RPL LP 24566 Perry FRIEDMAN (with banjo) 12s rec by PK, London 1958
- RPL LP 24697 Raoul ROY (with gtr) rec London 7/4/59 (in French) - LP 24896-7
Alan MILLS (Fr & Engl) accomp Steve BENBOW (gtr) rec London 15-17/6/59 -
CHANT DU MONDE Epinette de Vosges incl A3 song from Canada "Un matin je me
sis levee" (also on COLUMBIA) - COLUMBIA SL-211 World Lib (coll Marius Barbeau)
incl Engl French Gaelic Indian & Eskimo/ CASS 0047 -ELEKTRA EKL-23 Nova
Scotia Cape Breton - EMI CLP-1362 1960 Steve BENBOW "Paddy and the Whale"
(coll Greenleaf Newfoundland) - CLP-1604 Jack LANGSTAFF - FOLKWAYS FE-4307 Maritime
FS coll Helen Creighton Nova Scotia - FG-3531 1960 Jean CARIGNAN (fid/ clogger)
Toronto taxidriver - FM-4006 F/M from Nova Scotia coll Helen CREIGHTON - Marie HARE (unacc singer) rec by Sandy Paton, Strathadon, NB, Canada 1961: FOLK LEGACY FSC-9 1962 - IAN (TYSON) & SYLVIA: VANGUARD VRS-9154 "The Northern Journey" - LEADER
LEA-4057 1967 Edith Fowke coll 1957-1964/ CASS 0159 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS L-6
Six Nations Reserve (Indians) - RCA VICTOR LEP-1020 Arcadie et Quebec (univ
Laval 1950) - RIVERSIDE RLP-12-601 Ed McCURDY - SHENACHIE 14001 1978 Angus CHISHOLM
(fid) with piano CASS-60-0971 - RODEO RLP-25/ CASS-0232 Waldo Thumbs MUNRO (Bar
room piano) "Maritime House Party" (mainly Scottish) - TOPIC 12-T-140 1965 La
Rena CLARK (Ontario) - TOPIC 12-TS-247 John KIRKPATRICK "Rose of Britain's Isle"
(Newfoundland) - TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978 Gaelic trad in Cape Breton (songs/ fid)
vol I/ CASS-0196 - TOPIC 12-TS-354 1978 (Vol 2) Fiddling - Linda DREW (v/gtr)
rec CSH London 9/4/64 4'5"RTR-0409 "This Land of Ours" - CASS-0157 Arr by SANDY
MOORE of Halifax NS with piano & other instruments - LA BOUTINE SOURIANTE
(French-Canadian Band) incl fiddle & step-dancer rec Mariposa Festival:
Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS-0423-4 - Dieppe Raid with Canadian Division
19/8/42 with commentator Frank GILLARD & others Radio 4 19/8/82: CASS 60-0628
- Jean CARIGNAN (Quebec fid) with Aly BAIN "Down Home" (TV Series) in USA &
Canada LISMOR LIF-7011 1986 CASS 0814/ Also LA BOTTINE SOURIANTE (vocals/ band)
with "L'Isle des Voyageurs" followed by Reel - "The Barra McNeil's" (Instr group
from Nova Scotia): Radio 2: 19/10/88: CASS-15-0699 - Tom KINES: RCA Victor PC/PCS
1014 CASS-0233 & 1209 acc Russell THOMAS - Rufus GUINCHARD (fid) St John's
Newfoundland "Humouring the Tunes" SING SONG SS-9091 1990 CASS-1214 - - Willie
TAYLOR (fid), Joe HUTTON (N-pipes) & Will ATKINSON (harmonica) rec by Burt
Feintuch 1994: SMITHSONIAN-FOLKWAYS SFW-40473 1999 "Danse de Chez Nous" &
Aunt Mary's Canadian Jig" - Rejean SIMARD (Quebec 3-row diatonic accordion)
& Raynald OUELLET (1 track each): ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox"
1995 - Rain Dance performed by George BUCK, "Red Jacket" & group
with water-drum & horn rattle rec by National Film Coard, Grand River Reserve,
Ontario: from World Library ed by Marius Barbeau/ ROUNDER CD 1700 1997
CAPE BRETON
ISLAND - Nova Scotia, Canada -- ELEKTRA EKL-23 1955 10"
- TOPIC 12-TS-353 1978 Gaelic song - 12-TS-354 vol 2 fiddling - Triona ni
Donnell with RELATIVITY (incl Ham dulc) rec EBU Festival Denmark RPL Radio 2
13/1/88 CASS 0422 - Buddy McMASTER (fid)/ CAPE BRETON FIDDLERS/ Jerry HOLLAND
(fid) with Aly BAIN "Down Home" (TV Series) in USA & Canada LISMOR LIF-7011
1986 CASS-0814
CAPE VERDE
ISLANDS - with
Portuguese & West African influences - Antonio SANCHES (voc) & Ishota
SUARI (3-row acc) with "ferro" (rhythm iron): ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet
Squeezebox" 1995
CARIBBEAN -
including - ANGUILLA - ANTIGUA - ANTILLES - BAHAMAS - CARRIACOU (Grenadine)
- DOMINICA - GRENADA - GUADELOPE - JAMAICA - MARTINIQUE - NEVIS - St BATHELEMY
- St KITTS - St LUCIA - TRINIDAD -Bahamas: - Group of men from Andros Island rec by Alan Lomax, Nassau 1935 (Afro-Americans
with overlap parts in a ballad about the loss of the vessel Praetoria, in a
hurricane. Mixed group/ male group: FTX-781
- Carriacou sea peasants spontaneously join in on a little refrain that
animates a traditional cante-fable or tale-with song/ Nevis men singing their version of a traditional British
sea chanty as they row/ Grenada: A local Shango cult
leader and her neighbors sing in overlapping, two-phrase unison, accompanied
by drum and large rattle. Female solo and mixed group/ Carriacou
polyrhythmic transformation of a conventional Protestant hymn. Mixed group/
Bongo dancing enlivens the nine-day wakes of Trinidad. Because drums were once legally out-lawed, the
bongo rhythmic background is still performed on disposable bamboo strips. Male
group accompanied on sticks: FTX-782
- Martinique mountain folk dasnce (bele) with three
drums (the deeper drum in the lead) overlapping each other - a West Indian formula:
FTX-783
- Trinidad. Toco. The singer may be exaggerating
precise enunciation, free rhythm and especially tremolo to indicate the foreigness
of this English folk lyric. Male solo/ St. Barthelemy. A lobster fisherman sings a flowery French
lyric song typical of the 17th century survivals on this island. Male solo/
Bahamas. From Andros Island, a notably egalitarian and complementary culture,
comes this standard hymn tune sung in the swinging anthem style of the sponge
fishermen. Three men: FTX-785
- Martinique. Up in the hills, the small farmers
maintain a strongly African pattern of life. Male leader with male chorus and
three drums: FTX-786
- Martinique. An example of a West African two-phrase leader-re-sponse style/
Tobago. African hoe agriculture was continued in
the Caribbean slave and cash-crop cultures, where, until lately, one and two-phrase
melodic forms were dominant. The text hints that the mother is at work and a
child is minding the baby: FTX-787
- Bahamas Andros Island funeral anthem as sung in
parts an the sponge-fishing fleet. Three men. (Harmony)/ Trinidad where virile games and licentious pastimes, like
this lewd bongo dance, are performed at wakes for the dead: FTX-788
- Trinidad. "The Tiger", a calypsonian star improvises
a satirical portrait
of a well known local character- the kind of song that might be employed in
a battle of wit and improvisation between two calypso singers: FTX-789
- ARHOOLIE 1061 Joseph SPENCE & blues Guitar - LIB OF CONGRESS L-5 Cat Island
& L-8 Cat Island & Nassau - NONESUCH H-7-11
2 tracks group & trio - POLYDOR 236-581 1969 rec Peter Siegel & Jody
Stecher 1965 -- SOCIETY 919 1963 Roy GUEST "Bahaman Lullaby" -
Sea Shanty Group with female lead and men in chorus rec by Alan Lomax, Aug 1962,
La Fortune, St Patricks, Grenada/ Call and response song in French Creole,
rec by Alan Lomax, Vieux Fort, St Lucia July 1962:
ROUNDER 1700 1997 "Luce-O, Luce Mauvais" - Children rec
by Alan Lomax 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 : ROUNDER 1700 1997 "Roll,
roll, roll and go" - Dominica & children
in Anguilla rec by Alan Lomax, 1962: ROUNDER CD-1716
1997 "Brown Girl in the Ring" - Christmas Album includes "The Red
Ants" Group "The Motion Tune" rec by AL Gingerland, Nevis
1962: 1719 - Sampler of Caribbean: 1721 - "East Indian Music in the West
Indies": 1722 - Antilles, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenadines, Los Testigos, Tobago,
Dominica: 1724 - Trinidad: 1725 - Funerary
Music of Carriacou & Grenada: 1726 - Funerary
Music of Carriacou (Grenadine): 1727 - Grenada: - Selection of Creole & Yoruba
Voices: 1728 - Martinique: 1730, Nevis & St Kitts: incl Tea Meetings, Christmas Sports
& The Moonlight Night: 1731 - Carriacou Dance: "The Lancers": RPL LP 25787
- Dominica Mummers Play: RPL LP 34508 -
Edith PERRIN rec by Frank & Anne Warner, NYC 1941: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035
2000 - BRUTE FORCE Steel Band & Antigua Steel Bands - MERRYMAKERS Steel Band: RTR-0791 &
0793/ FTX-917
- Anon: West Indies rec RTR-0445/ cass: 0064 Radio 3 25/1/79: Reggae, Calypso
& Folksongs - John PEARSE on "Calling the tune" Home Service #8 11/3/63
"Ol Lady masher me toe" - STEEL & SKIN (Steel pans & elec gtrs)
rec by PK, Bristol July 1984: CASS 45-0641 - Extracts of "Freedom City" rec
by PK, Student's Union, Bristol 23/7/82: CASS 60-0642 - Siano ARIAS (melodeon)
with singers & bass rec 1989: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
(Arias died 1995) - Jamaica: 4 instrumental
items on message-size tape from Jamaica School of Music, Kingston 1956(?): 2"RTR-1189
Fiddle, rattles & e nsemble -West Indies rec RTR-0445 - CASS-0037 [Folkways]
- CASS-0185 Jamaican Folksingers rec Bristol 1982 - CASS-0639-42 Bristol 1982
- EMI CLP-1500 1962 Cliff HALL of Spinners - FOLKWAYS P-453 rec Edgar Seagar
- FONTANA STL-5431 1967 SPINNERS - STL-5495 1969 LIVERPOOL SPINNERS "Island
Woman" - Veronica FERON (of St Annes Bay) rec by PK, Gloucester 13/8/90
"I am a little teapot" CASS-0037 - ELOISE TRIO: CASS-45-0639 - THE MERRYMEN:
CASS 45-0640 - CASS-0641-0692 Colston Conference, Bristol JAMAICA FAREWELL -
- Cliff HALL of SPINNERS on Radio 9/11/82: CASS-0407 "Mandy" -LIVERPOOL
SPINNERS: EMI SCX-6493 1972 - Elda BLACKWOOD (of Jamaica) rec by Frank &
Anne Warner, NYC USA 1947: APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 "Two Little Blackbirds"
& "Uncle Ned" - Trinidad & Tobago
-- RPL 23930 rec by Ernest Eytle 1955 (also 18900 "shouters" dancing & 23644
popular songs (not in Lib) - CANTOMETRICS 90-016 A2/6 & 90-017 B1/4 Song
about mother at work / CASS-0644-6 Bristol - NONESUCH H-7-11 (S) Highlife Steel
Band - John PEARSE (voc/ gtr) "Calling the tune #8 6/3/63 ("Old Woman you")
"Masher me toe" - WOMAD 002 Calypso "Loraine" at Carnival (mentions taxi
to London Airport) also on CASS-0006 - West Indies broadcast items for PK incl Blind BLAKE "Delia": RTR-0445/ CD 945 - children in Trinidad rec by Alan Lomax,
1962: ROUNDER CD-1716 1997 - Cyprus SMITH & others with accomp on "croix-crois
sticks" rec by Alan Lomax, Diego Martin, Trinidad 25/4/62: ROUNDER 1700
1997 -- Neville MARCANO, "Growling TIGER, & Lord Airey in Calypsi "Duel"
with group & flute, fiddle & guitar, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad 1936: ROUNDER
1700 1997 "War" - Ram GOPAUL with sarangi (fiddle), tabla (drum) &
dhantal (cymbals) rec by Alan Lomax, Charleville, Trinidad 6/5/62: ROUNDER 1700
1997 "Religious Bhajan" - St Barthelemy; ROUNDER CD-1822 1999
CAROLINE ISLANDS --
MICRONESIA
CARRIACOU
- (Grenadine) - CARIBBEAN
CATALONIA (Spain) - EL BALL DE BASTONS Centre de Promocio de la Cultura Catalunya Series 2/
Vol 2 CD 2001 - Josep VERDAGUER i Portet ROVIRETES EL FLABIOLAIRE Series 2/
Vol3 CD 2003 (Gifts of Angel Vallverdu, Stroud July 2004)
CENTRAL AMERICA -
COSTA RICA - GUATEMALAHONDURAS - MEXICO - NICUARAGUA - PANAMA
CHILE -- A Chilean narrative song performed in solo with the guitar
in traditional Spanish style, but with Amer-indian touches in the big leaps,
the irregular meter, and the one-beat feeling of the guitar. Male solo/ The
old, 3-phrase, Castillian ballad style vigorously surviving in Chile. Female
solo with guitar: FTX-787 - Margot Loyola with piano: RPL 22277 & 33352 - (22279/ 30420-1/ 32382 from
Atacam desert area
CHINA - see also MONGOLIA - TIBET - Musical Instruments of
the World: FTX-700
- A professional female soloist accompanied by a plucked lute and flute
in a Chinese musical drama from Macao, Canton: FTX-783
- A work song for hauling barges through the rapids on the Yangtze: FTX-784
- Szechuan. The open-throated style of these
all-too-rare S.W. Chinese work songs resembles that of Tibet and Mongolia and
is a departure from the pinched-voice embroidery one usually hears from Chinese
singers: FTX-785
- "Chinese High Moon", a piece of contemplative music from the Tang
Dynasty (A.D. 618 - 906) played on nan hsiao (flute) and pip'a
(lute) by two males. (Levy #3, B1): 787 - Tee Ping Liang playing "cheng"
(banjo): rec London 21/6/58: (RPL 22841/ 26445-6/ 33102) -
Canton theatre: 912 B1/10 Barge-hauling song on Yangtze River: 913 A4/17
- S Zechuan work song:
914 A2/6 High Moon piece on flute & lute: 915 B2/12 - History of Music Jeng/Chyn
orch: EMI HLP-1 - "Chinese Bamboo Flute Music" (Shakuhachi) accomp by
fiddle, gtr, percussion & synth Delta Music 1993 (licensed from TRADITION
RECORDS): LASERLIGHT CD 12.183 Jing Ying from Hong Kong: (Cassette) SAYDISC
CSDL 325 - Tiau Jin (song & dance group): WOMAD 1 1982 "raindrops pattering
on banana leaves" - "The Very Best of Chinese Music" ("Oriental Cherry
Happiness descending on the house") with Wang Zhangzhu (bipa), Zher Shangzhan
(erhu) & Lin Zhangbi (piano): CHINA RECORD CO QL-9 1983/ CASS 1361 - 15-pipe
"lusheng" (reed mouth organ) & another track of Zhang GUOPING (p-acc): ELLIPSIS
ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
COLOMBIA -
South America -- Sylvia MOORE: FTX-137
- S.W. Poplayan Christmas music fiesta orchestras
of flutes, panpipes and drums: FTX-781
- Colombia, Choco. Cholo
Indians, deep in the rain forest, carriers of a diffusely-organized, pre-conquest
culture, sounding a six-hole flute with maraccas and cymbals: FTX-783
- small tape of EL PATACORE (9'00) rec Sylvia Moore & Bernard Broere 1979:
RTR-0450: FTX-938
- Pan-pipes Rio Guaviario: COLUMBIA SL 212 - Black Music rec by David
Lewiston 1970: NONESUCH H-72036 - Toto la Momposina (Soledad): WOMAD 002 - cassette
of S American 78rpm discs from Kitty Turner: CASS-0091/ BARCLAY 820 054 LOS
CALCHAKIS incl Ecuador, Colombo, Peru, Argentine, Bolivia - Rafael OROZCO (voc)
with Israel ROMERO (3-row acc) with bass & another track from Lisandro MEZA
(acc) playing "Cumbia de las Locos": ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox"
1995 (Vallenato music)
COOK ISLANDS --
CANTOMETRICS 90-011 A1/26 Male & female groups - 90-017 A1/30 Puka-puka (W
Polynesia)
CORSICA --The
rugged hills have protected many ancient Mediterranean traditions, among them
battles of poetic improvisation where local poets spontaneously rhapsodise on
assigned themes. This one begins in Virgilian style. "Waken, O my muse, do
your best for me". Embellished male solo: FTX-786
- COLUMBIA SL-207/ 615
CUBA - CD on
OCORA
CZECH REPUBLIC & SLOVAKIA:-- Vlaxi Rom European gypsies FTX-608
- World Instruments FTX-700
- Moravia. Traditional shepherd flute polyphony:
FTX-781
- Slovakia. wind and string ensemble: FTX-782
- Klenovec, near Bratislava, bowed lutes and cymbaloms, playing flowing counter-rhythms/
West Moravia (Iglau). A traditional village string
ensemble from the part of Europe that gave rise to the symphony orchestra: FTX-783
- W. Bohemian peasant girls' choir with a string
orchestra (bass in lead) collaborate in heterophony/ Slovakia.
A flageolet solo in shepherd style:
FTX-787 - Slovakia, Hrcava village. A wide-voiced
male loudly declaims a wordy song: FTX-788
- Songs & dances rec by Deben Bhattacharya: ARGO ZFB-59 1972 / SPA-212 sampler
- Moravian folksongs & dances ARTIA ALP-153 -
Zatiovne a dozienkove piesne SUPRAPHON 0-89-9878 (7"EP)
DAGESTAN -
RUSSIA-
DAHOMEY -- OCORA OCR-17/ CASS-0130 (box)
DENMARK - see also ESKIMO - FAROES -- AUSTRALIAN
ABC RRCS 131 Percy GRAINGER's orchestral arr of 2 folksongs coll 1922-7 with
Evald Taug Kristensen "The Power of Love" & "Lord Peter's Stable Boy"
- LARRIKIN LRF Grainger piano roll "Jutish Medley" - MXP CD 0196/
0198/ 0199 "Folk Music from Denmark" - TOPIC 12- TS-378 1977 Vin GARBUTT "Den
Toppede Hone" (instrumental) with Irish Hornpipe - 12-TS-419 1981 Dick
GAUGHAN "Randers Hopsa" (instr) - EBU Folk Orch RPL Radio 2 13/1/88
CASS-0422 - Carl Erik Lundgaard JENSEN (melodeon) with Poul NELD (fiddle) &
Keld Noergaard KRISENSON (piano): ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
"Oxbol Polka/ Labri" - TRADLADS: TLCD-001 1997 Irish Songs &
dance-tunes - Ostinat Expressen: CRYPTO CD-9901 1999
DOMINICA - CARIBBEAN
EASTER
ISLAND - POLYNESIA
ECUADOR -- Sylvia MOORE: FTX-137
- World Instruments: FTX-700 - rec in field by Bernard Broere & Sylvia Moore (Colombian border): FTX-938 - NONESUCH H-72036 Black Music of S America - Cassette dub of "Kitty Turner's
coll of 78rpm discs of South American music": CASS-0091 (BARCLAY 820-054) LOS
CALCHAKIS incl Ecuador, Colombo, Peru, Argentine, Bolivia
EGYPT -- Nile Drummers: WOMAD TB 2 - Hassam RAMZY (voc/ quarter-tone
p-acc) with percussion rec 1993: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox"
1995
ESKIMO - Southampton Island. Eskimo medicine men
and shamans often employ a low-pitched, raspy delivery in their healing songs,
exaggerating the vocal qualities usually distinctive of males. The message is:
Father or Grandfather is looking after you - Hudson Bay. A magic rune to help the hunt - with characteristic
nonsense syllables, irregular rhythm and the with the characteristic pattern
of harsh voice of the tireless hunter. Male solo/ Greenland,
Eskimo. This stylistically typical song consists of strings of nonsense
syllables set to the very complex irregular accompaniment of a frame drum beaten
by a stick:
FTX-784 - COLUMBIA SL-211 Canada Caribou Eskimaux/ CASS-0047
ETHIOPIA (formerly Abyssinia) -- 34 tribes rec
by Jean Jenkins 1966-9: BARENREITER 2304-5 Jean Jenkins recs - HUNGARY NEPRAJZ
ETHNO MUSEUM 1966 Songs - OCORA OCR-75 1971 Ralph Harrisson/ Ragnar Johnson/
CASS-0146 (box) - cass of Jean Jenkins Radio 3 1974 Intro to African Music -
RTR-1174 Jean Jenkins
EUROPE -- WOMAD
Intro to Europe CASS-0077
FAROES - (Island Group belonging to DENMARK) --
"Two Sisters" Ballad danced RTR 1082 - 7"RTR-1085 (with Norwegian
& Shetland music)/ CASS-30- 0536 - Sung-Dance Group rec by Tom ANDERSON
CASS-0436 - Fiddle Group led by Alasdair Cochran (of Glasgow) RPL Radio 2
20/9/89: CASS-0487 Achdon House (Wedding March from Shetland)
FINLAND -
see also LAPLAND - RUSSIA -- World Festival held at Pamplona & Biarritz
1953 Finnish Wedding Dance with fid: FTX-610
- World Instrum: fid FTX-700
- Karelia. A choir of peasant girls from the northern wooded province near Finland:
FTX-782
- Lapps. These Finno-Ugric reindeer-herders compose
"joiks", songs that briefly fix some place or incident, in a pattern of nonsense
syllables, characterized by uneven phrasing and glottal delivery, the principal
song type of the peoples of Siberia, seem to be the source of much Amer-indian
song: FTX-783
- S. Karelia. The precisely enunciated, syllabic,
minor-keyed cadences of this song are "typically" Finnish: FTX-788
- ARGO ZFB-43 & SPA-212- FINLANDIA FA-327 1981 Tapiola Choir - FINLAND FOLKMUSIC
INST KILP-1 1975 Kantela (CASS-0060) - - KALEVALAN NUORETEN LITTO Quartet -
(Gift from Pirko) KANSANMIIKKI INSTITUTION Kantele - ONDINE ODE-785-4 1992 "SININEN
JA VALKIONEN" (Finland in Song) Tapiola Choir ONDINE ODE-785-4 1992 (Sepate
Booklet) - Christmas Songs: RPL LP 26150 - EBU Contemp Folk Festival on Radio
2 5/4/83: CASS-0410 - Maria KALANIEMI (5-row button accordion): ELLIPSIS ARTS
3xCD "Planet Squeeze-box" 1995 "Skymningspolskan"
FRANCE - see also BASQUE
COUNTRY - BELGIUM - BRITTANY - CANADA - CHANNEL ISLANDS - CORSICA - FRENCH GUIANA
--- World instruments: FTX-700
- Auvergne lullaby in "Langue d'Oc (an early
form of French known as "Occident"), sung by a cultivated female soloist
with oboe accompaniment: FTX-783
- W. France, Poitou. Verses from an ironic ballad
about how a lover, hiding in a chest, is forgotten and eaten by the rats. The
performance is in the impersonal, story-telling, ballad style. Male solo/ Paris
guildsmen sing that "love of the Virgin should link the compagnons together
in a strong web." Male leader with male group:
FTX-784 - Gascony, D'Artagnan's home. Such venders'
songs have always enlivened Mediterranean city streets: FTX-785
- Berry. Remote country districts in France still
stage elaborate wedding ceremonies, with banquets that last for a day or two
and many traditional wedding songs. Male solo: FTX-786
- Normandy. A comic ballad in the burry nasal voice
and somewhat irregular meter typical of much of French folk singing: FTX-787
- Martin Caylan (cabrette & musette with accordion & banjo) coll by
Peter Crossley-Holland (on cass): RPL LP 27934 (See also card index) - BEAU
TEMPS BT-3801 - Selection of Cafe Music (selected by Dartington Students) CASS-0057
- Epinette des Vosges (dulcimer) CHANT DU MONDE LDX-74536
- Field rec coll by Alan Lomax: COLUMBIA SL-207 - Mougiano de Frejus (Provence):
DISKAN DK 015/ CASS 0088 Folk dances & songs: CASS 0089 - copy of 78 rpm
discs of French dances (loaned by Fred Austin 1978): CASS-0359 (& 0089)
- Dub of 78 rpm disks (SOLEIL) - Raoul ROY (voc/ gtr) rec London 7/4/59: RPL
LP 24697 - Alain STIVELL: FONTANA 6325-304, 6399-008 & 9101-500/ PHILIPS
6414-406 - coll by Marcel Dubois & Andral (2 copies): MUSEE NATIONAL ATP-69
(7" LP)/ CASS#0099 - Tom KINES (Canadian) acc Russell THOMAS: [RCA VICTOR PC/PCS-1014/
CASS#0233 - Songs from Correze: TOPIC 12-T-246 1974 - Manitas de PLATA Ste Marie
de la Mer: VOGUE LVLX-261 -- SONGS OF THE AUVERGNE (sung in Languedoc dialect
transcribed from CANTELOUBE) sung by Susan REED with Chamber Group: CBS M-61359
1951 - Andre VERCHUREN le roi de l'accordeon vol 3: MUSIDISC CO-1258 - WOMAD TB-3 1982 TI JAZZ - Pat Rush talking about French F/M Revival:
Radio 2 16/11/82 - CASS-0039 Claude Achard of Pezenas, Herault
talking about Languedoc customs - HUGO (mel) rec
by PK, Paris Film Conference 21/8/85: CASS-0382 - French Button Accordionists
from Bruno Kowalezyk 4/4/86: CASS-0383 - "Boest an Diaoul L'Accordeon en Pays
de Gavotte Anche Libre & Dastum nn nd (purchased 7/2/88) CASS-1158 (separate
book by Bernars Lasbleiz) - Gus VISEUR (musette): ELLIPSIS ARTS CDs "Planet
Squeezebox" 1995 - Video #18 Herault Hobby horse & Garland Dance. "La
Joute" (Languedoc) -
rec UK - SHUSHA: TANGENT TGS-114 - Alistair ANDERSON (Bagpipes):
TOPIC 12-TS-371 1978 - TROTTO: FOREST TRACKS FT-6004 cass French dances - John
WRIGHT with JENKIN'S EAR, Guernsey F/Group rec 1994: CASS-1301 (French sea shanties)
- - BLOWZABELLA: PLANT LIFE PLR-038 1982
FRIEZLAND - part of Netherlands -- PHILIPS
6440-135 Accordion music (bequest)
GABON -- OCORA OCR-41/ CASS-0120 (box)
GAMBIA -- AFRIDISC TPM 45/101-2 Senegambian (Worloff) -
VIRGIN VX-1006 KONTE family - WOMAD Talking Book Amadu JOBARTCH playing
Kora (Griot tradition) - Dembo KONTE (Cora) Radio 2 1/4/87: CASS-90-0567
GEORGIA -
Caucasus - A well-rehearsed Choir singing an arranged folk song: FTX-782
- Kakhete, Shilda Region. A lullaby melody performed
by a chorus of twenty women/ An early high culture whose hocketing, yodeling
style might be one source of European counterpoint. Male chorus: FTX-788
GERMANY ---
WL-5334 Bavarian yodelling song with accordion rec 1953 IFMC Festival : FTX-610 - World Instruments dance music &
"hummel" (dulc): FTX-700 - Woodcutter's yodel,
male solo: FTX-781 - Wurttemburg. A comic
surrealist, peasant dance-song for mixed group and brass band/ famous Kurt Weill "jazz' number. Female solo with strings, winds, horns and percussion accompaniment: FTX-783 - A woodcutter's song from the Carpathian
mountains. Male solo: FTX-784 - Swabia. A teasing
dialogue of courtship set to a widely-known folk tune. Male solo/ German enclave
in Hungary. A medieval ballad about a girl who saves her brother
from hanging by running nine times naked round the gallows. Female solo/
Emsland. Children, going from house to house for gifts on Martinmas Day,
sing the familiar children's descending minor third cadence: FTX-785 - A standard youth movement
song about the death of the pastor's cow. Female solo: FTX-786 - A Berlin academic choir demonstrates the old
style Gregorian chant a European variant on the Eastern liturgical tradition
rhythmically free, long-phrased and highly melismatic. Male group: FTX-787 - Emsland. A lullaby
sung in the 'covered' (wide, softened) voice so frequent in Central Europe/
Ballad of a love encounter set to a common German tune and in the polyphony
that may be native to Central Europe. Male chorus: FTX-788 - Uberlingen Sword Dance rec 8/7/56: RPL LP 23649
- CAMERA SM 95015 SCHNUCHENACK (Gypsies) Django Reinhart tradition - CASS-0054
-Regensburg Museum coll COLOSSEUM SM 3014 - DECCA (6) 21606 Der Grosse Zapferstreich
(Marches) - NDR Group: Brecht's "Die Idioten Club" rec EBU Festival Denmark
RPL Radio 2 13/1/88 CASS-0422
GHANA - Fra-fra
tribesmen (vocal, rattle & fiddle), Nangodi, Northern Territory 1964: CBS
66218 1970 (Song LEGACY 086334 2003) "The Story of the Blues" - TANGENT TGS-113
Mustapha Tettey ADDA - TGS-115 Kpanlogo Party with OBADE - WOMAD Warner WEA
KG-8045 Group - TB-2 2 groups drummers - 002 Orchestre Jerzira & Kpanlogo
percussion - CASS 0075 WOMAD 1982 Ashanti/ Gabrone/ Fra Fra/ Dagomba/ Kassas
& Dagarti
GOZO - MALTA
GREECE - incl CRETE -- Epirus. An interlude in an epic
about a brave woman who drowned herself to avoid enslavement by the Turks, saying:
'May I never be seen to bow and kiss hands: I am the wife of Botzaris and
sister of Notis, I carry bullets in my skirt...' Violin, clarinet and plucked
lutes: FTX-782
- . A Cretan Syrtos which, like much of Cretan tradition,
has its roots in the classic past. Male solo accompanied by lyre and lute: FTX-784
- A song in the epic style of the heroic klefts, the patriotic Greek
mountaineers who struggled against Turkish rule for centuries. Male solo with
lute/ Crete. A highly embellished, wordy, male, solo
complaint from an ancient, complex, urbanized and stratified culture: FTX-785
- Crete wedding processional. Male group:
FTX-786 - A Peloponnesian dance of the shuffle style, with dancers in a line
and moving sideways to an aksak pattern, played on glissando fiddle and
plucked chordophone: FTX-787
- Popular Music of Greece: ALBATROS VPA 8298 - Greece in music & song
(1 item only from Crete): ARGO ZFB-70 - CANTOMETRICS 90-912-5 - Dances &
f/s Central & Eastern Macedonia: LYCEUM LCGW-103 - Bouzookee: NONESUCH HS-72004
- - coll by Wolf Dietrich TOPIC 12-TS-231 - Jorges MANGAS (clarinet rec Globestyle:
Radio 2 on 9/9/87: CASS-0403
GREENLAND -- CASS-0087 Inuit "Throat Songs" accordion dances incl accordion, guitar & chorus
GRENADA & GRENADINE
- CARIBBEAN
GUADELOPE -
CARIBBEAN
GUIANA - French
Guiana -- Kalina Indians, jungle fishers and manioc
gardeners, sing a song of nonsense syllables, set to an irregular meter. Male
solo: FTX-786
- Oyana Caribs. The women produce the bread (and
beer) from manioc, the men fish and hunt in the game-scarce jungle; this is
a song, close to one of their jungle cries, for luring monkeys within blow-gun
shot. Male group: FTX-788
- 90-916 B1/4 Dyana Caribs - monkey luring song
GUYANA -- --
FONTANA STL-5495 1969 SPINNERS "Brown Boy" (comp by David Campbell) -
WOMAD TB-3 1982 "Fast forward into dub"
HAWAII - POLYNESIA
HOLLAND -- (RPL 23853) Dances from different
regions incl Friesland (not in Lib) - (RPL 24641) Fishermen's choir (not in Lib)
- BELGIAN BRT DL 111-427 Ballad in Dutch by old man - Dutch tune rec Tristan de
Cunha: FTX-609
- IFMC Festival Pamplona 1953 Friesland dance with stamping & clapping: FTX-610
- MUNICH MU-7440 Harmonika (Accordion) - MU-7424 TAIL TODDLE (group) -
NOS-6814-230 Folklore Archive - PHILIPS 10388 Sylvia MOORE & Bernard BROERE
rec Amsterdam - 6440-135 Friesland accordions - Tape of Friesland music from Dr
Goslinger, Harberton, Devon 1980: RTR-0469 - VERENIG NG UP001 Netmaker's Songs -
Pat Rush talks about Dutch F/M Revival on RPL Radio 2: 22/8/83 CASS-15-0790 - 4
accordion players on Radio 2 Jan 1993 CASS-0488 - Midwinter Horn solo: ROUNDER
1719 1998
HONDURAS -- Honduras, Valle. Two guitars (European) playing a waltz European)
in irregular meter (Amerindian) in rough unison (also Amerindian). This is a
frequent mestizo-American pattern.
HONG KONG -- RPL LP
27955-61 (not in Lib) - JING YING Soloists: SAYDISC CSDL-325 cass
HUNGARY - see also KLEZMER -- Euro-gypsies FTX-608
- QUALITON LPX-10095-8 a boxed set of 4 LPs of f/m ed Rajeczky with notes &
photos 1964/ CASS- 0103-4 (box)/ FTX-641-642
- Moravia: FTX-643
- World Instruments: FTX-700
- At mid-winter men go house to house, singing "colinde" (carols)
to bring their neighbours luck in the coming year. Mixed group with drums: FTX-781
- A performance by peasant girls
with 'new style' lyric song: FTX-782 - Slow "czardas" dance tune in (7/8) meter, performed in unison by a
male singer and fiddle: FTX-783
- A ballad of an outlaw hero performed in declamatory style with wide leaps
in irregular meter. Male solo/ This lyric, strophic song, from the bend of the
Danube has the wide-leaps-that so impressed Bartok and that may indicate the
ties of old Hungarian melodism with its place of origin in Central Asia. Female
solo: FTX-786
- Transylvania. An 'old style' Magyar piece, unornamented,
in strict, simple meter and quick tempo. Male solo/ An old style Hungarian lyric
for dancing, in unison and in irregular meter. Female group: FTX-788
- Bucharest. A doina sung by Marie Lateretu,
now dead, was one of the world's great vocal artists: FTX-789
- World of Travel ARGO
SPA 212(sampler)-
ARGO ZFB-49 1971 Songs & Dances rec by Deben Bhattachaya - "Moravian Folk Songs and Dances" : ARTIA ALP-153 1960
Gift of Henrietta Yurchenko - CASS-0035 Zither music - HUNGAROTON LPX-11477
Gregorian Chants - NEPRAJZI 1966 cass dub: Ethno museum field rec: demo of instruments
- OCORA OCR-54 7" LP Popular music/ CASS-0109 (box) - PRIVATE Boxed set of Tatar
f/s rec Budapest 1975 - WOMAD TB-3 1982 Muzikas - ARGO ZFB-60 1972 "Ungarescha"
Vic GAMMON & Trevor CROZIER'S BROKEN CONSORT - Martha SEBASTIAN & Group
on Radio 2: 6/6/90 CASS-60-0882
IBIZA -- rec
Alan Lomax incl Mallorca & Spain: COLUMBIA SL-216 / CASS 0051
ICELAND: -- Langspiel zither (RPL LP 30777) - FTX-306
Hugh LUPTON: Loki Death of Balder (story in English) - FTX-700 World Instruments: Langspiel - EMI ODEON MOAK-17 Islenzk Rimnalog: Rimur Songs
(sung Epic Poetry) rec John Levy nd - TRADITION TSR-006 RIPLEY WAYFARERS: "East Wind" - Icelandic Song by Norwegian group at EBU Festival in
Denmark introd Cyril Tawney: CASS-0341
INDIA incl PAKISTAN - see also SRI LANKA - World Instrumentals: FTX-700
- Benares:
Hindi religious folk song about Krishna and his love for the lovely milkmaid,
Radha, male village chorus/ Nepal: song popular in
Kathmandu: female solo with drum: FTX-781
- C. India, Gond: Alternations between male and female
groups, with sticks, drums and flutes in polyrhythm: FTX-782
- Manikpur, Meithei. A priestess sings a hymn to the Earth Mother, accompanied
by a pena (bowed lute)/ Bengal. A morning raga, male
solo with bowed lute, sitar, flute and drum accompaniment/
Kerala. An ancient type of TamiI orchestra; a musical bow hung with brass
bells, Two-pitchers slapped with fiber pads, a small hour-glass drum, cymbals
and clappers/ Kerala. A segment of the Kathakali, the magnificent dance
drama tradition, where dancer-actors mime episodes from the Ramayana which are
sung in heterophony with a heterophonic ensemble of drums, gongs and cymbals:
FTX-783
- Nepal. Young Botean Sherpa girls of this Himalayan
farmer-porter culture sing to greet European mountain climbers, "Welcome,
where do you come from?'/ A fragment of a raga. Male solo with vina (violin):
FTX-784
- Malaysia, Central Borneo, Dusun. A Young woman
addresses the recordist. 'If you get our music back to your country, you
will never forget us.': FTX-785
- The old high culture of India produces highly embellished songs for the ashram
where the Vedantic traditions of Yoga are inculcated,
in part, by such chants/ C. India, Madhya Pradesh.
The Hill Saora Tribe; a ricefield work-song with much repetition and a narrow
range/ Oriya tribal song about Sita and Ravana of the Ramayana
legend/ Assam Abor hill tribes, living in small,
independent villages, have a polyphonic song style half-way between that of
Polynesia and Africa. Mixed group/ Kerala. Nyar women circling a lamp, clapping and singing
- as is their custom during summer planting - a song in which the wives of a
prince praise their husband/ Nepal. A religious chant
from the Tamang, a tribe of mountain farmers in Central Nepal near Kathmandu.
Male solo: FTX-786
- Oriya tribal song
in two short phrases with repetitive text, notable raspy delivery and drum accompaniment/
N.W. India. Kashmir, fabled for its beauty, is like
Georgia, fortunate in its climate, its mountain irrigation economy and its rich
heritage of Middle Eastern culture, such as this tune for a nightingale. Flute
and drone/ S. India. A Trivan drum song for Kathakali
(mimed dance drama of Malabar) by male soloist
with drums and cymbals/ Nepal. Female solo: FTX-787
S. India. A male leader and chorus of
the Kuravan tribe of snake catchers and basket makers/ S. India, Kerala.
An abjurgation to embrace spiritual and philosophical Vedantic truths, in a
wave-like shape. Male solo/ S. India, Kerala. The Kuravan Tribe sings to Ganapate,
god of wisdom, in a wordy, ornamented, free-rhythm style. The male leader is
answered by a unified chorus, gliding through parallel thirds/ Kerala. The Kuravans
are a wandering non-Hindu tribe of basket makers, snake catchers and day laborers.
Male chorus: FTX-788
- West Bengal love song,in which a lover compares his sweetheart
to a flower, sung by a male with a bowed lute (israj) and plucked lute
(sitar): FTX-789
#04 - Village Band nr Delhi rec 1951: RPL 18083
- Land diving songs & slit gong with
chant (not in Lib): RPL 30147 - COLUMBIA SL 215 ed
by Alain Danielou/ ROUNDER 82161-1755-2 - CASS-0086/ EMI HMV- 1752 1963 10"LP cassete dub of Indian Flute
Music by Panna Lal Gosh & Vijay Rhaghav Rao - NONESUCH H-7-11 (S) 6 tracks
- H-72030 Rain Narayan (Sarangi) - H 72035 Bands of Bengal - OCORA OCR 47 Music from Rajasthan/ CASS-0116 (box) - OCORA OCR-81 Professional folk musicians
of Rajasthan/ CASS 0142 (box) - Three
ragas: OCORA OCR-69 - Swahunnan SARNA playing santur: OCORA
OCR-77 - BATISH family (N India): TOPIC
12-T-191 - Item called ENGLISH NOTE played on Gotta Vadyam (instrum similar
to Vina but with more sympathetic strings: CASS-0026 - East Indian
Music in the West Indies (Guadelope & Trinidad):
ROUNDER CD 1723 1999 - Nusrat Fateh Ali KHAN (Pakistan): WOMAD 1 1952 - Sufi
QUAMNALI: WOMAD 002
INDONESIA - includes ARU ISLANDS - BALI - BORNEO
- JAVA - MALAYSIA - MOLUCCAS - PHILIPPINES - NEW GUINEA - SARAWAK - VIETNAM
- 1953 IFMC Festival Gamelan by London students/ FTX-610
- World Instruments: FTX-700
- Borneo, Dusun. One variation on the E. Asian mouth-organ is the
"sampotan"/ Philippines: The Hanunoo live in small acephalous hamlets
in the jungle; each person has his own yodeling trail call (uwi) to announce
his approach through the heavy cover. Here several uwis are simultaneously performed
by a mixed group: FTX-781-
Male Group/ Bali Kechak (monkey dance). The moment
in the Ramayana drama, when the monkey army rescues Sita, pits a legato female
choir against an accelerating background, in imitation of monkey chatter. Male
& female group with drum: FTX-782/
The "gamelan" gong orchestra/ Bali, where everybody
takes a turn playing (metalophones, percussion, winds, strings) as it rehearses
and performs long rituals and dance dramas/ Interior Malaya, Temiar. A mixed chorus from this small tribe
intone a song sent by the Tiger Spirit. Accompanied on percussion tubes: FTX-783
- Malaysia, N. Borneo, Bajau. These Moslem Sea Dyaks
live in family-sized canoes, gathering fish and seaweed. A sacred text from
the Koran. Female solo/ C. Borneo. Land Dyaks sing
a song for a head-hunting ritual. Male chorus with lute and horn/Malaysia,
Philippines Magindanao. An epic chant by a Moro male/ Java.
A female virtuoso produces a tone like a silver wire to a gamelan accompaniment:
FTX-784
- Malaysia, N. Borneo. The Sea Dyak (Bajau) are
also known as sea-gypsies, because they live and work and move from place to
place in big family canoes, harvesting the shallow tropic seas and selling the
sea weed and sea slugs they collect. They are Moslem converts, and here a woman
embellishes verses from the Koran/ N. Borneo. The
Murut are jungle, shifting-field, rice cultivators. This is a topical song improvised
by a male singer at a drinking party/ Sarawak. An
embellished.Sea-Dyak song recorded from a radio broadcast. Female solo/ E. New Guinea Highlands, Dani. Canonic polyphony with accelerating
rhythm renews the singers' courage and prepares them to attack a nearby group
that has slain one of their tribe: FTX-786
- Bali. One of the numerous forms of the gamelan
(an orchestra of metalophones, flute and percussion instruments) is the Anklung,
usually heard at funerary rites. Several males: FTX-787
- Java, where the gamelan accompanies one of the
most accomplished virtuosos of Indonesia singing in a typical highly embellished,
rhythmically free performance: FTX-789
- ARGO SPA 212 sampler incl Bali "Monkey Dance" - CHANT FDU MONDE LDX-74434
John WRIGHT & Trab Quang Hai (jews harp)- COLUMBIA SL-210 Indonesia incl
Western New Guinea, Moluccas, Bali, Java (CASS 0046)
- - NONESUCH H-7-11 Court gamelan with female singers - OCORA OCR-46 f/m from
West Java/ CASS-0117 (box) - RPL LP 27257 rec NY
1962 - Small amateur group RPL LP 27257 "Sarinande" - 90-013 A2/16 Temiar Tiger
Song - BARENREITER BM-30 L-2026 Musical Anthology 26 Alain Danielou - - -
PRIVATE 2258 (78 rpm) Music of Pulambi (Sio Coast) - CASS 000070-1 Port Moresby
(Papua): 2 cass of commercial pop music & reggae:
THE BLACK BROTHERS hits - WATTLE ARCHIVE D-2 1958 Music of New
Guinea 2 players rec Paris & Saigon OCORA OCR 68 / CASS
0150 (box) - Vietnam: Musique Mnong Gar (Gongs etc):
OCR 80/ CASS 0143 (box) IRAN - Persia --
World Instruments: FTX-700
- A fragment of a rhapsodic mystic chant by the poet Araqi, superbly sung and
oirnamented by Zabihi: FTX-785
-From the heritage of a complex, ancient civilization, this composition
in the Abu-Ata mode is played on the tar (plucked lute) and the
kemanche (bowed lute) by two males: FTX-787
- Fishers in Persian Gulf OCORA OCR-42 - Persian Classical Music rec by Charles
Duvelle: OCR 57/ CASS-0106 (box) - CANTOMETRICS 90-914 A2/1 & 90-915 B2/10
- SHUSHA Persian Song: TANGENT TGS-110 1971
IRAQ -- World of Travel (sampler) ARGO SPA-212
- OCORA OCR-55/ CASS-0108 (box) - OCR-63 Oud: Munir Bashia (Instr)/ CASS-0151A
(box) - OCR-79 Ensemble santur fid tamb drum & chant - CASS-0095 Baghdad
TV cassette presented to Folktrax at Baden Baden Radio & TV Conference 1980
ISRAEL & PALESTINE - Hebrew, Bokaran Jewish singer.
The severe sexual sanctions of the Mosaic code are typical of many cultures
in the mideast, N. Africa, and the Mediterranean (in fact, in most of the ancient
civilizations) and persist in contemporary society. Male solo. (Israel, A3)/
Palestine Hebrew. A fragment of cantelation of the "Kedusha." Note the
free rhythm, melisma and the long phrases, as well as the narrow and very nasal
vocal quality: FTX-784
- Hebrew. A cantor performing a prayer forYom Kippur.
Male solo: FTX-785
- Kol Zion Lagolah Choral Society: RPL 21505 - "Calling the tune" #8
11/3/63 "Circassia" (Russian folk dance) - LP 26584 Raasche rec London
5/4/61 - ARGO ZFB 50 1971 Occidental & Oriental rec by Deben Bhattacharya
- SPA 212 Sampler - B3/2 Palestine Hebrew cantelation
"Kedusha" - HED-ARZI BAN-14492 Shalosh Re'galim - Ofra HAZA (f unacc)
followed by superimposed disco beat version intro Colin Irwin: on "Acoustic
Roots" 19/4/89: CASS-10-0716
ITALY - see also SARDINIA - SICILY - Tristan
de Cunha "Italian waltzes": FTX-609 - accordion dance from
Torino rec 1953 IFMC Festival/ RTR-0471-2:
FTX-610 -Anthology of Italian Popular Music
edited by Roberto Leydi: FTX- 617 & 618 - Children's Games: FTX-621 - World Instruments: 700 "Zampogna" bagpipe, jews harp, guitar, acc orch
- Friuli choral tradition, a group of villagers,
improvising one of a string of brief melodies called villanelli: FTX-781 #34 - Emilia. Villagers
spontaneously producing a unified polyphonic effect: FTX-781 - Puglia. A lyric
serenade sung by a worker accompanied by guitar:#29, A9)/ A Piedmont cattle herd, each cow with its own tuned bell, the
leader swinging the biggest of them, sways up the path to summer pasture in
the Alps/ Fishermen sing at the capstan, drawing in the great seatrap laden
with tuna. Male chorus: FTX-783 - Genoa's contrapuntal
longshoremen's choruses, "Tralaleros" employ three bass parts/ N Italy,
Piedmont. Such small brass bands are an old tradition
in this region of industry and industrialized farming. Mixed group/ A muleteer,
engaged in transport in the rugged hills of Campania,
sings a travelling song as he rides along, in the high, tense voice so common
to the region/ Campania, where women's voices are
as thin and hard as the long silver pins they wear in their hair: FTX-784 - Liguria. On moonlit
nights the men gather on the bridge over the little mountain river and sing
such medieval ballads as this one of the captain's daughter. Male group: FTX-789 - Complete collection of ALBATROS records edited
by Roberto Leydi:: 8082/ / 8088/ 8120 - "Sardinia"
ed by Diego Carpitella & others vols 1-3: 8150/ 8151/ 8152 - "Il Trallalero
Genovese" 8164 - "Puglia e Lucania" 8191 - "Le Valli di Cuneo" 8203 - "Sicily - Work Songs" 8206 - "Bergamo e il suo teritorio:
Lombardia" 8222/ 8223/ 8231/ 8237/ 8269/ 8341/ 8372/ 8381 - "Musiche
e Canti popolari dell'Emilia" 8260/ 8278/ 8403 - Musica Contadina dell'Aretino" 8286/ 8287/ 8288 - "Canti di Liguria" 8309/ 8313 - "Il Lazio"
8348/ 8384 - "Marche" 8361/ 8382 "Alessandria Piemonte"
8390 - "Salento" 8405 - "Il Nigra Cantata Donna Lombarda" SdL/As/5 - "E per
la Strada" DS/143/45/Cl - CASS 0016 is Joe Falinski's Instrumental Selection
- CASS-0009-0025/ 0028/ 0138 (Sardinia)/ 0271 (bagpipes)/ 0052 (Dances, Instr
& Religious Song)/ 0053 - ARGO ZFB-71 Sicily in Music & Song - - "Scano Boa" (modern folk group)
rec Padova 1986 CALICANTE La TORRE X3 - Genoa: Canterini
all'Opera: "Trallaleri e Canzoni": DEVEGA DL1017 2000 - RPL 23163 Tralalero/
Cass-0013 - LP 23587-9, 23841-(2) coll by Diego Carpitella incl Genoese Trallalero
fishermen's choir - 24806-7 Sardinia - 26954 Pisa
Baptistry demo - MONTE SANT'ANGELO 45 EP nd - OCORA 558-595 Sardinia rec by
Michael Vuylsteke 1981/ CASS-0138 (box) - SUONI SU-5007 Accordion from Sardinia
- LA CIAPA RUSA: on Radio 2 on 9/9/87: CASS#0403 - RITMEER on Radio 2 2/11/88:
CASS-15-0739 incl Sardinian Song - Mario SALVI (melodeon): ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD
"Planet Squeezebox" 1995 "Tarantella di Montemarato" - Pino MASULLO (local sounds,
talk & gtr): CHIANO rec 9899 1999 (rec Lucerne, Switzerland) incl "Tarantella,
Gallino" - Various Christmas recs: ROUNDER 1719 1998 - 7 cassettes & two
books of folksongs recorded by ITALIA RANALDI contributed by Roberto Campo June
2001 -- 5 tracks rec by Alan Lomax 1954: ROUNDER-CD 1700 1997 - LIGURIA Balardo
& Imperia rec by AL 1954: ROUNDER CD-1816 2002 - FF-4405
Film Sword Dance from Fenestrelle (Piemonte) in which the "Fool - Arlecchino " at the conclusion, stands
on the raised crossed swords .
IVORY
COAST -- rec by Michael Vuysteke 1969: OCORA OCR-48
/CASS-0115 (box) - Masque Dan rec Jugo Kemp 1965-7: OCR-52 /CASS- 0111 (box) -
Le ZAGAZOUGOU (p-acc & 3-row diatonic) with percussion rec Abidjan 1993:
ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
JAMAICA -
CARIBBEAN
JAPAN -inc;
OKINAWA - RYUKU - Koto solo & group with flute rec 1953 IFMC Festival:
FTX-610
- World Instruments: Flute band & street procession with drums: FTX-700- Music of Ainu Two female singers with samshin/
Women singing a rice-planting song which voices the desire of a young woman
for a new crimson dress - and a lover: FTX-781
- A Tokyo builders' work song for heavy lifting,
as when the center post of a shrine is to be raised. Male group/ Ainu. Fisher-gatherers of N. Japan rejoicing over the bounty
of a beached whale Mixed group/ Ainu, Mixed group: FTX-782
- Fishermen's song with flute accompaniment. An urban rendition of a charcoal
burner's song. Male solo with flute (shakuhachi)/ Amami
Island farmers and fishermen have retained much of the traditional lifeways
of Old Japan. A song of mourning/ A raspy, rice-husking song saying: "Not
a single grain should be wasted, for it takes 88 steps to make rice good to
eat". Male solo and chorus: FTX-784
- Ainu. A paleo-Siberian aboriginal woman performs
in the solo style that dominates Arctic Asian singing. (Kondo)/ A fisherman's
song accompanied by shakuhachi (flute): FTX-785
- In this Zen style sound flows like a waterfall, cleansing the mind of thought,
leading to meditation. Male group/ Zen. A Butsuden chant, the type to which
Zen monks devote many of their waking hours/ The herring-fishery workers sing
to celebrate a successful springtime catch, using rather long phrases and much
embellishment. Male solo with flute (shakuhachi): FTX-786
- The ornamented long phrases of the shakuhachi are prelude to a song
commenting on the loneliness of life/ A work song, mounting a long narrative,
the Ryuku Archipego, whose culture still preserves
the ways of old Japan. Female chorus with drum: FTX-787
- Kyushu geisha accompanied by zither, lute,
flute, gong and drum sing about the experiences of a girl during the period
of trial marriage - Folksongs of Ryuku, Okinawa &
Japan - 0029 Tsugaru Folksongs sung by Unchika Nanta
- COLUMBIA SL-214 incl Formosa Korea & Ryukus/ CASS-0049 - CROWN LW 4006
Temple or Processional Music - LYRICHORD LL-134 Kabuki Naganta Music (Orch)
- LLST-7126 Gagahn Imperial Couert Music - LLST 7137 Noh Music - NONESUCH H-72025
Shakuhachi (CASS-0058 & Noh) - ORCHID OR-1 Yashikazu huamato - Shakuhachi
rec Dartington Devon 1984- cass tapes from MORI - Competition Song celebrating
Spring by a fisherman accomp by shakuhachi rec by Genjiro Masu for Japanese
Music Institute, Tokyo: COLUMBIA World Library/ ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 "Esashi
Oiwake"
JAVA - see INDONESIA
JUGOSLAVIA - see
YUGOSLAVIA
KALIMANTAN -
INDONESIA
KENYA - AFRICA-
KOREA -- FTX-700 World Instruments: "Kayakeum" (string instrum) with drum - True orchestral
heterophony, between flute and shawm with instruments trailing each other: FTX-781/
A semi-professional orchestra a S.E. Korean traditional 'hymn to the god of
the house site' on a flute, hourglass drum, and oboe: FTX-782
Korean classical An Ahk ('neat and orderly') music, composed in 1450
for ceremonial and state occasions, played on a range of instruments of wood,
metal and stone: FTX-783
- COLUMBIA SL-214 Japan/ CASS 0049 - Exchange with Jae-won Chang.Chang Won,
Shinbanpo 3-cha APT 24-403 Banpo 2-dong, Seocho-gu Seoul 137-042 South Korea
Nov 2002: SRCD-3532 1999 (Ministry of Culture & Tourism Reg #22) - ene media
co SCO-127-TAC 2001 SEULGIDOONG: "From the Evening Tide Till The Coming
Down" - DRM-CD-1778 Jeong SooNyum HAEGUM: "Beatiful Things In Life"
- SRCD-1439 Shon Bum Ju: "Flying Up To Heaven
LAOS - South
East Asia -- FTX-700
World Instruments: Song accomp "khen" - The large, composite palace
orchestra of the king with a dialogue between metalophone, oboe, flute and percussion: FTX-783
-Male solo with khene (mouth organ), a festival dance/ A male singing
a festival dance song accompanied on the khene: FTX-784
- EMI HELP-1 History of Music B4 Song of Ngum bargeman/
khen "buzzing of bees"/ old dance/ Male solo with group: Love song
LAPLAND - FINLAND - NORWAY - SWEDEN - IFMC Yearbook
1973 p51 Article on singing style - These Finno-Ugric reindeer-herders compose
"joiks", songs that briefly fix some place or incident, in a pattern of nonsense
syllables, characterized by uneven phrasing and glottal delivery. This, the
principal song type of the peoples of Siberia, seems to be the source of much
Amer-indian song: FTX-783
- The
Lapps share their nomadic hunter and reindeer-herding culture and their glottalised,
irregularly phrased, metrically irregular style with all Northern Siberians/ A topical song concerning
the revolt of Lapp religionists against the Norwegian church in which Lapps
drove their knives straight into the hearts of their enemies as if they were
slaughtering reindeer: FTX-786
- A Lapp male chants in the guttural-voiced, repetitive style, typical of Siberian
nomads: FTX-788
- SWEDISH RADIO "Jojk" 13/4
LATVIA -- A radio
orchestra playing a European fine art arrangement of a Latvian folk dance tune/
"Subate" dance by concert wind ensemble: FTX-782
#56 & FTX-783
LEBANON -- Druze
tribe: chopping acc chant/ drumming/ flute solo/ double-pipe solo: RPL 24899
LEEWARD ISLANDS --
CANTOMETRICS 90-014 A3/5 St Bartholemy Lobster Fishermen's song
LESOTHO -- rec 1947
War Dance against Hitler with ululations: (RPL 11116-7)
LIBERIA -The Kpelle
are cereal agriculturalists and their song (which shows clear Pygmy influence)
is for cutting brush: FTX-781
- PRIVATE LP 3440 by Mrs M JACKSON-PARKER
LITHUANIA -- Kupsikis. An amateur chorus does a concert version of an
old wedding song: FTX-782
#69 - The common East European ballad of the girl, advised by her lover to poison
her too-possessive brother- from a peasant village. Female solo: FTX-785
- A sutartine (choral round), the oldest Lithuanian song form - akin
stylistically to the hocketing songs of Georgia and the African Gatherers: FTX-786
- Lithuania is a Baltic enclave of ancient traditions where the oldest Aryan
language is spoken and a contrapuntal style, like that of Georgia, is retained.
Mixed group: FTX-788
- CASS-0131-2 (box) Folk Dances - Sanger's tape (Dartington student's music
thesis): CASS 0133-6 (2 copies/ in box) - FOLKRAFT LP 35 dub on cassette/ RTR-0451
-
MADEIRA -- Grupo de Folklore e Etnografico da Boa Nova: BB9502 Funchal 1995
MALAGASI - (Madagascar) -- Mahafaly male bard (Arab influence) with lyre and sticks:
FTX-784 - A healing song from a highly stratified culture.
With a female soloist, gunshots, two overlapping choirs, men yodeling, hand
clapping and much ornamentation: FTX-785
- A crowded African healing ceremony, thrilling Cushitic cadences of the female
lead, responses by a woman's chorus, a male solo and male chorus overlapping
in contrapuntal relationships, a gun fired off to drive away evil spirits: FTX-789
- History of Music Choir & "Valiha" (hair-cutting ceremony): EMI HLP-1 -
Valiha tubular bamboo gtr & other unusual instruments:
OCORA OCR-18 & 24 (S) / CASS- 0127 & 0129 (box) - GLOBESTYLE Cass dub
- current trad music (1988) - cass of radio progr 1974 on "The Valiha" the National
Musical Instrument (RPL 3014-7) - Chris Dabbs Kilalao Zezeet Groupe "Jon":
CASS-0061 - GLOBESTYLE rec featuring "kora": Radio 2 on 9/9/87: CASS-0403
- Francois REGIS-GIZAVO (voc & musette accordion): ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet
Squeezebox" 1995
MALAWI - (Nyasaland) -- Hugh Tracey Coll East
Africa: COLUMBIA SL-213
MALAYSIA
- INDONESIA
MALI -
AFRICA
MALLORCA -- COLUMBIA
SL-216 rec by Alan Lomax incl Ibiza/ CASS-0051
MALTA & GOZO --
Maltese Operatic Choral Society (male section) rec 17/7/59: RPL LP 24956 (6
Carols) - Damian Webb's 1971 recordings of children's games and carnival bands:
FTX-627
MAORI - NEW
ZEALAND
MARTINIQUE -
CARIBBEAN
MELANESIA - ADMIRALTIES
- NEW BRITAIN - NEW GUINEA - NEW IRELAND - PAPUA- SOLOMONS - Admiralties:
Baluan women singmg in seconds, Bulgarian style, in a culture where women do
half or more of the work that produces the staple food: FTX-781- Solomon Islands,
Malaita. A modern ceremonial panpipe orchestra - six instruments - organized
in pairs, one playing 1, 3, 5, 7, the other - 2, 4, 6, 8 - in three-part polyphony,
each part doubled at the octave/ Yambon. A seven-man
garamut (slit drum orchestra) performs tatoos/ Admiralties, Usiai. Like other Melanesians, these were occasional
cannibals, perhaps because of the relative scarcity of available protein in
their diet/ Admiralties, Manus, Usiai. Three old
men in a sing-song of wordless melodies, all by known song-makers and all harmonized/
S. Papua, Fuyege. Sweet, plaintive vocal style/ S. Papua, Tawade. A mountain tribe of great singers and dancers
with the reputation as fierce warriors. Male group: FTX-783 - Admiralties, Manus.
This sea-going, fishing and trading community was masculine in orientation and
the position of women was low. Here a Manus woman sings a snatch of a lullaby/
S. Papua, Kuni. Low volume, parallel chords and gliss are
distinctive features of this musical enclave, which may be pre-Melanesian. Mixed
group/ E. Papua, Orokaiva. Male chorus, singing repetitiously
in large intervals: FTX-785 - Solomon Is. Buin Area.
The songs in this pig-and- root zone are often polyphonic like this one
for the preparation of a feast. Mixed group/ Torres Straits,
Sabai Island. These once fierce fishing and gardening people guarded
the island bridge between S. New Guinea and Australia. The musical style is
clearly Papuan, rather than Australian, but the musical organisation, in which
the parts move from unison into fifths, triads and parallel octaves, rather
resembles the drone polyphonies of Polynesia. Seven men with drums/ - E.
Papua, Mt. Yule. A Gerebi woman sings a plaintive love-magic song about
watching an insect crawl up a blade of grass. If the insect stays to the end
of the song, the magic will work: FTX-787 / Admiralties, Manus.
A fishing, trading people, most of whose songs are laments, this one concerning
an inter-village battle. Male duet/ Admiralties Baluan Island.
Three women performing in harmony amazingly close to Balkan examples/ Admiralties.
Usiai sing in their habitual, plaintive, backwoods way about
an orphaned child: FTX-788 - The Usiai tropical gardeners live in the hills
back of the coastal Manus, whom Margaret Mead studied. The subdued vocalizing
and the harmonizing are typical. Four young men/ New Hebrides,
Tanna Island. A great throng of men, women and children of Yokananon
Village in the Kalbu dance, which celebrates the completion of yam planting,
wheel round in a great stamping, clapping cluster: FTX-789 - New Hebrides:
RPL 30147 Land diving songs & slit gong with chant (not in Lib) - Musique
de Guadecanal (Main Island) rec by Hugo Zemp: OCORA OCR-74 1970/ CASS-0147 (box)
MEXICO: Central America -- FTX-700 World Instruments: "Jaranito" (string instrum) & "Marimba" (xylophone) - Pueblo Taos. Tightly organized unison
singing. Mixed group with drum: FTX-781
- Oaxaca, Mixtec, a male soloist accompanies himself
on a three-string tortoise-shell guitar/ C. America, Guna, Araquia. Cuna culture, a link between Mayan and Andean
upland traditions, ceremonies of female initiation where long, mythological
epics and panpipe and horn music play a central part. Here six men dance in
a circle, blowing long, plain bamboo pipes, with two panpipe players on the
sidelines/ Morelos. Tlayacapan town band of 18 men
(trumpets, trombones, saxophones, bass fiddles, drum, cymbals) blast out the
carnival music for the masked, transvestite male 'chinelos' dancers/ Chiapas, Mayan music for a Catholic festival diffusely orchestrated
with trumpets, whistle, and drums in a style frequently found in Nuclear America
and which we judge to be pre-Columbian: FTX-783
- North Mexico. A man performing the Deer Dance,
which links these hunters to their most important game; accompanied on a notched
scraper, sticks and water drum: FTX-785
- Jalisco. The folk oboe, Chirimia, of Spanish
origin) and drum announce the beginning of Holy Week: FTX-787
- Michoacan, Zamora. A mananitas, or morning
serenade, sung by two village girls: FTX-788
- San Luis Potosi. A Huastecan son (dancing
song) typical of the enormous and brilliant genres of Mexican semi-professional,
folk-popular music. Two males with violin, bass guitar and tenor guitar: FTX-789 - INBA [1971] INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES Campeche 1973 - recs by Henrietta
Yurchenco 1944-6: LIB OF CONGRESS L5 Childrens Games & 19 Folk Music - NONESUCH
H-7-11 Michoacan (2tr) - OCORA OCR-73/ CASS-0148 (box) - cass dub of S American
commercial 78rpm discs loaned by Kitty Turner: Mariachi RTR- 0473 - CASS-0092
dub of field recs 12/5/77 by Jean Rad Hellmer
MICRONESIA - Palau, Western Carolines.
A song for entertainment at old-style gatherings. Female solo: FTX-785
- Palau. A complementary and cohesive culture devoted to fishing and horticulture.
A female leader chants a theme that is repeated and then elaborated by others.
Drone polyphony comparable to Balkan examples. Three females: FTX-788
MIDDLE EAST - see AFGHANISTAN - BAHRAIN - EGYPT - GREECE - IRAN -
IRAQ - ISLAM - ISRAEL - LEBANON - PALESTINE - SYRIA - TURKEY -- ARGO ZFB-42
Music - ZFB-54 Religious (Christian & Islanic) - ZFB-91 Dervishes - FOLKWAYS
FR-8943 (Dervishes) Islamic Liturgy rec JL London - TANGENT TGS-131-5 Human
Voice/ Lutes/ Strings/ Flutes & trumpets/ Reeds & Bagpipes
MOLUCCAS -
INDONESIA
MONGOLIA - see also
SIBERIA - Professional folk musicians perform a modern song. Female group
with yetah (zither): FTX-783
- GLOBAL ARTS GA-! CASS-0066 Music & song of M rec live by Carole Pegg at
Cambridge Univ Arts Studies Unit 5/8/88 - HUNGARIAN NEPRAIZI ETHNO MUSEUM [1966]
Fiddle - TANGENT TGS-126 Vocal Music rec Jean Jenkins
MORAVIA -- "Moravian Folk Songs and Dances": FTX-643
MOROCCO - Sephardic
song: FTX-785
- Ouzazarte. A Gran Houache performed in the courtyard
of the pasha's palace south of the high Atlas Mountains at the edge of the Sahara.
Two rows of women weave a stately giant circle round a cluster of seated male
drummers who respond with thrilling calls. The ancient Berber pattern is democratic,
egalitarian and complementary. Female group and male group with drums: FTX-789
- recs by Paul Bowles 1959: Lib of Congress L-63-64 - CASS-0097 JAJOUKA Royal
Court performers of High Atlas with tuned drums
MOZAMBIQUE -
AFRICA
NEPAL - INDIA
NETHERLANDS - HOLLAND
NEVIS & St KITTS - CARIBBEAN
NEW BRITAIN
-- MELANESIA
NEW GUINEA - INDONESIA
- MELANESIA - Sepik. The string of the musical
mouth bow is plucked and the overtones of these notes are amplified by changes
in the oral cavity near which one tip of the bow is held/ Sepik
River - Siassi Islands. A funeral lament performed
at the grave or death feast of an elder. Male solo/ Butala
area. After an old woman had died, her son sang this song: FTX-784 - Male solo with hourglass drum - Vanimo. A unison male chorus of the Northern Coast, accompanied
on the typical hour-glass drums, sounds its strength in a war song. Small-scale
wars over land, ended after a couple of skirmishes, were endemic in these root
and pig-raising economies. Unison male group with hourglass drums: FTX-786 - Sepik River, Iatmul.
One side of a ceremonial duet (tsgai) , a celebration of a set of related names.
Male solo with hourglass drum - COLUMBIA SL-208 F/M of Eastern New
Guinea (CASS 0045) - DVD 2003 (colour & b/w) by John Bishop &
Harold Prins "Oh what a blow that phantom gave me" interview
with Edmund Carpenter 1998 with 1969-70 footage of Sepik River tribal initiation
etc
NEW HEBRIDES --
MELANESIA
NEW ZEALAND -- Maori. A lament of forcibly separated lovers, sung in wide-voiced
polyphony by a mixed choir from this ramage-grouped, horticultural society:
FTX-782
- A large mixed chorus sings an ancient lament: FTX-783
- The Maori, in the general fashion of the Polynesians, preserved their genealogies
(so important to them in determining their social positions) in lengthy chanted
poems, like this lament for the great chiefs of the past: FTX-784
- Maori. Puhiwahine, a Maori poetess composed
this song in her youth when she was forcibly separated from her lover. They
had grown old before they met again and they wept as Puhiwahine sang this waita.
Mixed group: FTX-789 - CASS 0067 rec Alys Curtis June 1980: Field rec of old performers & 3 songs
rec Dartington College of Arts incl version "Little Brown Jug" - Group
at Sidmouth Festival: RPL Radio 2 10/8/88: CASS-90-0549 incl "Haka"
NIGER & NIGERIA --
Jos Plateau, Anaguta. The interlocked, hocketing Pygmy-like style of this flute
orchestra comes from a small, complementary tribe living in a zone once occupied
by Pygmies, and probably represents an absorption of Pygmy style: FTX-781
- Yoruba Theatre: ASSOCIATED RECORDINGS COMPANY ARC0-1062 "OBALUAYE"
- Drum Beats (Northern Group: (RPL LP 25825) - Griots: OCORA OCR-20 / CASS-0128
(box) - Tuareg & Bororo: OCR 29 / CASS-0124 (box)- Nomads Tuareg &
Bororo: OCORA OCR-29 - Ife Univ Plateau: OCR-82 1972 / CASS 0141 (box) - Prince
Nico & Rocafill Jazz: WARNER WEA-KO-8045 - Intro to Africa: WOMAD TB-2-
J.K.DAIRO MBE (melodeon) with percussion rec 1971: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet
Squeezebox" 1995
NORTH
CAROLINA -
Steve MEEKINS (fid) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Kitty Hawk, N C 1941: FTX-927
NORWAY: -- see also
LAPLAND - Willie HUNTER (fid) rec by Pat Shaw, Shetland 1952: FTX-068
"Norwegian Waltz"- CAS 0032
Hardanger fiddle/ 0062-3/ FTX-368
- rec 1953 IFMC Festival: FTX-610 "Soldier's Joy" tune -
World Instruments: FTX-700
- A sentimental song about the beauties of nature
in Sete-dale Valley. Male solo: FTX-781
- Trained European vocalists lady ballad singer: FTX-783
- A mountain woman remembers one of the calls (Kulokk) she employed to manage
cattle in her young days as milk-maid/ A Valkyrie voice from the world of Nordic
princesses and of valiant dairymaids who guarded the cattle while the Vikings
plundered Europe: FTX-784
- Telemark. A fragment of an epic song about the
hero, Roland, whose trumpet blasts 'burst walls as far away as nine day's
travel.' Female solo/ When the men were away fishing or raiding, Norwegian
dairymaids used such calls in herding the cattle. Female solo: FTX-785
- A cattle-call (kulokk) such as the dairymaids of the Norwegian hills
employed for centuries to manage their herds. Cattle pastoralism enriched this
zone of Europe before it knew intensive plough agriculture; it was customary
here to sing to the cattle. Thus the cattle songs and calls of the American
West are an ancient West European patrimony/ A cattle-herding song from the
Norwegian mountains, where herding preceded field agriculture, as in much of
W. Europe. Male solo/ Mouth music for dancing, a N.W. European trait with Siberian
connections. (See LAPP songs): FTX-788 - 2'17" COMPLEX MELODIC FORMS (16B) - CAPRICE 1153 Hardanger fid & piano
rec by Daliot - RTR-0329 & 0449 -
FREE REED FFR-005 TROTTO Hardanger "Fanitullen" - LARRIKIN LRF-034 1977
Percy Grainger's piano roll of Norwegian Folksong (Greig) - RCA FEP-45 &
FLP-11 Telemark hardanger rec Myleburst - FLP-18 Frondelag - FLP-19 Old folk
instrum incl Finnish Kantele - LPNE-2 Mountain & Valley - TALENT 2021 1977
Sven Nyhus Quartet - TOPIC 12-TS-351 f/m of N rec Radio: Myklebust/ Daliot/
CASS#0197 - TOPIC 12-TS-429 "Ringing Strings" (Daliot #2 & Shetland) - TRIOLA
TNLP-42 Telemark hardanger - Bergen Group at EBU Radio Festival in Denmark intro
by Cyril Tawney 5"RTR-1208/ CASS-0341 incl Jews Harp - EBU Fest in Finland:
Springleik Radio 2: 5/4/83: CASS-0410 - Magnus MANNHEIM (Hardanger fid) rec
by Tom Anderson 1964 :CASS-0436
NYASALAND - MALAWI
OKINAWA -- A
traditional lullaby performed as an art song.
Male solo with sanshin (three-string lute): FTX-788
PACIFIC -
INDONESIA - MELANESIA - MICRONESIA - OKINAWA - PHILLIPINES - POLYNESIA
PAKISTAN - INDIA
PALAU --
MICRONESIA
PALESTINE -
ISRAEL
PANAMA -- RTR
1198 3" reel tape 7½" (both sides) Canal Zone & Interior: Social Dances,
Corpus Christi, 5 str-fid, flute & drum with shouts during fiesta - sent by
Mrs Cheville to Maud Karpeles c. 1960s
PAPUA -- BLACK BROTHERS
dub of cassette from Port Moresby New Guinea CASS-0070 & 0071 - Australia
& New Guinea: COLUMBIA SL-208 - Indonesia: COLUMBIA SL-210
PARAGUAY - SOUTH AMERICA
PERU -- -
Pipe & drum band "Charango" orch & Titiaca Indian dance with drums: FTX-700
- Quechua: FTX-781
- A mestizo dance tune for flute and drum/ Junin, Santiago. Violin, trumpet and drum spur on the work
of the harvest/ Junin. The lively orchestral traditions
of the Andes are reminders of Peru's imperial past. Here, it is the ambiance,
the ensemble, which is clearly native, even though the musical material is Hispanic:
FTX-783 - Inca Panpipe Ensemble: NONESUCH H7-11 -Pancartambo
Indiens Q'eros: OCORA OCR-30/ CASS-0124 (box) - Cass dub of Kitty Turner's S
American comm 78 rpm discs -Tany MEDINA & LOS MOROCHOS harp solos CASS-0090
(dub of disc) LOS CALCHAKIS incl Ecuador, Colombo, Peru, Argentine, Bolivia:
- BARCLAY 820-054/ CASS-0091
PHILIPPINES -- INDONESIA
POLAND --
-
World Instruments: FTX-700 - A modern village chorus performing an old comic ballad about
farm animals. Mixed group/ A typical village orchestra of fiddles, bass and
clarinet, playing a figure dance as the singer calls out: "Play faster, I'm
not crippled.': FTX-785
- Polish Country Dance Band: RPL LP
26219 "Calling the tune #6" 25/2/63 "Flisak" - Feliks DZIERZANOWSKI
& his Polish Folk Band: POLSKIE NAGRANIA XL 0746 1971 - MUZA SX-1125/6 1976
Double LP of Polish Folk Music/ CASS-0100 - DUBROWAS Polish Folk Group based in London
6/86 - DUBROVA FAMILY of S London (3m
3/w) Radio 2: 7/10/87: CASS-0401
POLYNESIA - COOK ISLANDS - HAWAII - SAMOA - TAHITI
- TONGA -- Cook Islanders perform choreographed
song dances in forceful, wide-voiced style. Male group and female group: FTX-781
- Tahiti, where a permissive, cohesive, complementary,
but aristocratic society favoured clear-voiced, well-blended, polyphonic choirs
singing with precise enunciation: FTX-784
- West Polynesia, Puka-Puka. In Polynesia well-rehearsed
and choreographed troupes of mixed dancers perform on feast days and often tour
near-by islands. On moonlit nights the young people perform similar dancing
songs on the beach. These overlapping choruses, which are sung with great energy
and cohesion and often in polyphony. Male and female group: FTX-789
- Radio progr "Polynesian Art of Dance" 12/2/79 Dr Adrienne Kepler of
Bishop Museum Honolulu & talk about Hawaii & Easter
Island by Grant McCall NSW: CASS 0093 - Popular Songs of Samoa rec 1949 (RPL 13556) CASS-0093 - Radio progr 12/2/79
4 songs from Samoa performed with English announcements/ RTR-0446-7
PORTUGAL - see also MADEIRA -- Children's games:
FTX-623
- World Instruments: FTX-700
- S. Portugal, Algarve. A calendrical song, ' Janeiras'
or year-end carol for January lst. Male solo/ Christmas carol. Mixed group:
FTX-785
- TROUTBECK 121-6 (3) Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue London - WOMAD TB-3
1982 Pedro Candera CANBRAL gtr group
PUERTO RICO - recs by
Richard A Waterman 1946: LIB of CONGRESS AFS L-18
RAJASTHAN -- OCORA
OCR-47 Music from Rajasthan/ CASS 0116 (box) - OCR-81 Professional f/ musicians
of Rajasthan/ CASS- 0142 (box)
ROMANIA -- Douglas KENNEDY talks about the Calusari
Morris: FTX-481 - Euro-gypsies: FTX-608 - recs presented to Dr Maud Karpeles/ CASS-0103-4/
FTX-631 - FTX-634 - World Instruments: FTX-700 - Film of Village Festivals with Calusari (Morris dancers) made in 1938: FF-4404 - Wallachia. Dance
tune played on the bagpipe by shepherds: FTX-781 Clui peasant girls, carrying a harvest wreath
of wheat that symbolizes the sun, sing the harvest round the village/ Bucharest State folk ensemble accompanying a great panpipe
player in the favorite gypsy showpiece that describes the soaring, singing lark.
Panpipe with violin and cymbalom accompaniment: FTX-783 - Transylvania.
A lament for a dead child is sung tenderly as if it were a lullaby. Female solo: FTX-784 - Crisana. A woman
improvises a lament upon the death of her brothers using a standard formula
but adding new verses. Female solo/ Cluj. A delicately
embellished appeal to the emperor to stop his wars and his needless slaughter
of the young men. Female solo: FTX-787 - Muntenia. A ritual
song for a big three-day weddlng, accompanied by a gypsy-style orchestra from
the homeland of the doina in the Danubian plain - for millennia, the entry-way
for Oriental culture into Europe: FTX-788 - Tuvin. The singer
constricts his throat, retracts his tongue producing a low growling note, while
shaping the higher pitched overtone notes, as he would do in playing a jaw's
harp. Found as far west as the Bashkirs, this style is most frequent among the
Mongols, especially the Tuvins, a little known group of hunters and pastoralists
who live in the high country between the Altai and Sayan Mountains. Male solo:
FTX-789 - World of Travel sampler ARGO ZFB 41
& SPA 212 - Archive of Folklore Inst Bucharest RPL LP 23243-5 - Popular
vocals & orchestrals incl pan-pipes: DECCA Eclipse ECM-ECS 2031 1963 - Anthology
presented to Maud Karpeles 2/8/62: - ELECTROCORD EPD 1007 orchestral: 1015/6/7
12/CASS 0102-3" - The True Tradition of Transylvania
rec Vuylsteke: OCORA 558-596 1974-9 / CASS-0137 (box) - Folk music in Transylvania
by Simon Broughton on Radio 4 20/12/89 CASS-0033 - Radio 2 progr by Harold Dennis-Jones
14/2/79 CASS- 0065 - Transylvania CASS-0137 - 5"RTR- 0789/ CASS-1355 copy of
Romanian dances - "Doina" by Mari LATARETU & orcherstra rec by Tiberiu Alexandru,
Lelesti, Turgu Jiu, Oltenia for The Archive of the Folklore Institute, Bucharest:
COLUMBIA World Library ROUNDER 1759 2001/ ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 "Ma UitaI
Spre Rasarit" (Looking towards the rising sun) - Midwinter Carol, Hunedoara:
ROUNDER 1719 1998 - DVD of Calusari 1938 (see folkfilms)
RUSS-ASIA including - MONGOLIA - SIBERIA - RUSSIA
- UKRAINE - see also -ARMENIA - AZERBAIJAN - GEORGIA - Dagestan (Female and male choirs, Georgia cannonic, contrapuntal
polyphony with a yodeled leader's part/ Kazakhstan (a song in the bardic style, typical of Old High
Culture)/ Central Russia (A Molokan church Sunday
School, singing a Protestant hymn)/ State Siberian
Folk Choir singing an arranged peasant ditty : FTX-781
- Karelia: A choir of peasant girls from the northern
wooded province near Finland/ Bowed lutes play in a traditional intertwining
style/ A rozhok (cornet) ensemble from Great Russia, playing a traditional "That"/
Georgia in the Caucasus preserve this modern survival of
a primeval, interlocked style of counterpoint, once widely known in East Europe:
FTX-782
- An art song about Stenka Razin, the peasant revolutionary, performed by the
Soviet Army male ensemble with string orchestra accompaniment/
An operatic solo from Prince Igor performed by Chaliapin with a complex orchestra
accompaniment/ One of the modern state balalaika orchestras swirls through a
traditional Russian folk dance. Strings/ Turkestan.
A flute and drum piece/ Moscow. The choirs in the Bolshoi Orchestra slide over each
other in jazz arrangements and contemporary European orchestration, String and
wind sections of the symphony orchestra/ Bashkir. A
flute solo in free-rhythm from a Tatar people who live in their own autonomous
region in the Urals: FTX-783
- A Mongolian singer matching the top notes of a
bowed lute/ A Cossack ballad from the Ukraine, performed
by a trained baritone with bandura (stringed instrument) accompaniment/ Georgia.
The high, mountain-locked valleys of the Caucasus guard many traces of an-cient
cultures, among them a true virtuosity in yodeling, often combined with magnificent
contrapuntal choralizing, whose structure is like that of the African pygmies.
Male group/ Kalmyk. This combination of wide voices,
big leaps, big range, with florid ornamentation is peculiar to the zone of steppes
and herding from Mongolia to the Balkans: FTX-784
- Mongolia, Darhat, a culture
with the layered, patriarchal, male-dominated pattern of many large-scale pastoral
states/ Mongolia. Dorzhdagva, a famous singer with
a three-octave range, pours out strings of glottalized nonsense syllables in
a heightening of Arctic Asian style/ The
Kalmyk were mounted warriors and cattle herders of the steppes west of
the Volga, a land where such heroic songs once flourished. Male solo/ A Mongolian
saga singer accompanying himself on the bowed lute, rhapsodising about
the Gobi Desert. Male solo/ The Kalmyk lived as sizeable
bands of semi-nomadic cattle herders, feudally organized under khans Male solo:
FTX-785
- Buryat Mongols, descendants of the riders of Ghengis
Khan, employ an ornamented bardic style, as in this solo drinking song with
lute accompaniment/ The Kazakhs were formerly nomadic
pastoralists whose extended family clan confederacies (hordes) occupied a vast
territory and whose bards performed epics and engaged in battles of sung poetry
to lute accompaniment: FTX-786
- Ukraine. A practiced rural choir in a traditional
Russian folk pattern of wide-voice, well-blended polyphony, and irregular meter/
Uzbek. These modern descendants of Turco-Mongol pastoralists
still have many such highly ornamented epic songs to remind them of their imperial
ancestors who conquered the Central Asian steppes. Male solo with tar (lute):
FTX-787
- Russia. Turkmen, dwelling east of the Caspian,
here perform so that the voices of singer and bowed lute soar like eagles over
the steppes. Male solo/ Mongolia. East Mountain Buryat,
a nomadic herding culture with the soaring, gliding, embellished, tremulous
style typical of this zone. Male solo/ Tadjikistan. This state-supported national ensemble could
be a modern embodiment of the ancient Iranian civilisation of the Middle East.
Female solo and chorus with strings/ N.C. Russia, Volgoda
Region. A woman keens a ritual lament for her dead father in a style
with parallels all over Europe/ C. Asia, Buryat Mongol art song, with the wide leaps and
big range frequent in Central Asia. Female solo with lute accompaniment: FTX-788
- Turkmen. Tense-throated Asian virtuoso uses high
register, glissandi, glottal sobs and strong dynamics to enhance a bardic declamatory
style, found all over the Middle East and Central Asia. Male solo with plucked
lute (dutar) and bowed lute (gidchak) - South
Russia. A wedding dance sung in the open-air style said to have originated
when the original Russian inhabitants came back from the North to reoccupy lands
that had been long held bythe Tartars. Female chorus: FTX-789
- Urals State Choir rec by PK: RTR-0474-6/ CASS-60-0059 - Church Bells
of Rostov MELODIYA 15836 - F/S rec Hungary July 1975 PRIVATE TATAR - "Song of
Homeland" WOMAD TB-3 1982 - "Song of Homeland" with dulc: WOMAD TB-3 1982 -
Folk quartet from St Petersburg on their 1991 tour: cassette from Russell Needham
- comp cassette from Marina Fonina St Petersburg 1992 ZABAVA 1991 - RUSS Male
Choir: Liturgical Hymns from St Petersburg: CASS-1077 - ZABAVA (group from St
Petersburg) rec by Jonathon Coudrille, Glastonbury & Bath 1991 CASS-1078
- Dubs by Marina & Vladimir Fonina of 1980s recs, St Petersburg Nov 1992
CASS 90-1079 -00 --- Recs outside Russia: THE PENNYWHISTLERS:
NONESUCH H-72007 1971 & 72024 - Roger NICHOLSON (dulc) & Jake WALTON
(gtr): ARGO ZDA-204 1974 "Bright shines the moon" (Balalaika tune) - Nic JONES:
FOLKSOUND FS-100 1974 "Warlike Lads of Russia" - Hank WANGFORD: Radio
progr 26/1/86 "Why Gengis Khan was a cowboy too" CASS-0480 mainly from
Eastern Europe - RUS Black Sea area Folk Group CASS-1289 gift 1993 - Viacheslav
TARAN (bayan accordion) rec by Terem Centre finalists St Petersburg, 1995: ELLIPSIS
ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995 - KARAVAI Quartet of Perm with balalaika
& domra: Catalyst CATA-CD-2 1998 (rec in Denmark) "Babushka Matryona"Track
13 has ethnic field recording from Urals taken up by group
RYUKUS
ISLANDS - JAPAN
St BARTHELEMY, St KITTS & St LUCIA
-
CARIBBEAN
SAMOA - POLYNESIA
SARAWAK --
INDONESIA
SARDINIA-- ALBATROSS VPA 8150-2 (3 vols) (VPA 8152 also
on cassette) - FTX-622
Children's games - "Historic Collection Series": FTX-626/
SAYDISC SDL 426 Traditional Songs and Dances of Sardinia - World Instruments:
FTX-700
- N. Sardinian mountain shepherds; Male solo with male group/ Mountain
shepherds sing a bandit dance. Male group: FTX-781
- Male chorus. (Lomax #29 B8): FTX-783
- N. Sardinia, where the village shepherds and outlaws preserve an ancient polyphonic
tradition, resembling those of Genoa and Georgia, and a brassy vocal delivery.
Male solo with male group: FTX-784
- OCORA 558-595 1981 rec Vuylsteke/ CASS-0138 (box) - SUONI SU-5007 "organetto"
rec by Diego Carpitella
SENEGAL -
AFRICA
SIBERIA -
RUSS-ASIA - see TUVA under MUSIC-TYPES
SICILY -- Trapani salt porters continue an ancient tradition of rhyming
about the number of bags they have carried, in wordy, precise, loud and forceful,
narrow-voiced, raspy-nasal style, using wide intervals and free rhythm: FTX-781- A sulphur miner's song, expressing the Sicilians eternal torment over love
and over the misery of life in a land which suffered under oppressive rulers
for 2000 years. Male solo with jaw's harp: FTX-785
- Work Songs: ALBATROSS VPA-8206 - "Tarantella" & Lullaby: ARGO SPA-212
- "Sicily in Music & Song" rec by Jim McNeish: ARGO ZFB-71 1965 - Robin
HALL & Jimmie McGREGOR BELTONA SEP-85 1960 (45 EP) "The Banks of Sicily"
(comp by Hamish Henderson) - Dances: "Tarantelle" & Work Song: RPL
23211-3 - Ocarina, clarinet & gtr/ Sulphur miners Work Songs: RPL 27041-4
- Friction drum & jaws harp - Shepherd flute bells & sheep: RPL 27570
- Funeral March by Brass Band: (RPL 30425) (Lomax recs) - "La Baronessa
di Carini" prod by Anna Chairetakis, New York: GLOBAL GVM-676-7 (2 vol
set) - Ewan McCOLL TOPIC 12-T-130 1958 "Banks of Sicily"
SLOVAKIA - CZECH REP
SOLOMON ISLANDS
- MELANESIA
SOUTH AFRICA --
Shona boy singing to his mbira: FTX-781
- WOMAD TB 2 Intro to Africa: Unknown Soweto musicians - 3 tracks of Sotho concertina,
accordion & Zulu concertina (Gallo): ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox"
1995
SOUTH AMERICA -
see AMAZONIA, ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHILE, COLOMBIA, ECUADOR. GUIANA,
GUYANA, PARAGUAY, PERU, SURINAM, URUGUAY, VENEZUELA
SPAIN - see also BASQUE COUNTRY
- BALEARICS - CATALONIA - Oboe & side-drum, guitars, castanets:
FTX-700 - Asturias (The danza
prima, early danced ballad where the whole community joins hands and dances
in procession through the streets singing of valorous deeds of the Moorish wars.
Female leader with mixed group)/ Castile rendition of an old romance (ballad)
about the daughter of the emperor of Rome. Male and female solos - Asturias, whose miners, farmers and fishermen compose and sing superb traditional "asturianadas", a style that dates back to the time when Asturias was the seat of Spain's kings: FTX-783 / A Galician woman beats her flax while singing a snatch of a
Spanish romance ballad/ A Santander mountain dance,
lustily sung by young women at the fiesta for the patron saint of their village.
Female group with tambourine, almirez (mortar and pestle) accompaniment: FTX-781 - N.W. Spain, Galicia.
A song to St. Andre who was such a local patriot he would not cross the river
to leave this permissive complementary village. Mixed group/ Judeo-Spanish "Ladino"
love song with lute, flute and drum. (Also on FTX-783): FTX-782 / S. Spain. A Murician
parrando (gay dance) sung with instrumental voicewith guitar and clappmg, from
an area where Moorish culture once flourished - Valencia.
The wind interlude (trumpet, clarinet and trombone) between the sung strophes
of the virtuoso "U y dos" genre/ - A Castilian farmer
sings to spur on his mules, as they move round and round on the threshing floor,
treading out the grain/ Galicia. Here a muleteer
sends his voice through the hills as he travels, calling out for custom and
love: FTX-784 - Asturias,
where the Spanish kings mounted their wars against the Moors and where hundreds
of such brief and exquisitely ornamented songs were created. Male solo/ Castile. In this lullaby the mother asks the child to go
gently to sleep, like a rose-bud on a rosebush. Female solo/ Estremadura,
where. as in Asturias, N. Italy and French Canada ballads are normally performed
in chorus. Four village girls/ Galicia has a Celtic
musical culture with bagpiping, tunes like jigs, and cohesive choruses/ Santander.
In a pastoral village high in the Pyrenees, shepherd girls sing one of the love
songs traditional on the local saint's day. Female group: FTX-785 - La Mancha. A petition
to the Virgin for rain. Female solo/ Estremaduran shepherd villages preserve
many old romances (ballads). This one is about the amorous adventures of Don
Carlos, son of Phillip II. Female group: FTX-786 - Seville. As the
gigantic Easter procession pauses to listen, a famous flamenco singer using
a high-pitched, narrow, embellished style, launches a saeta (an arrow
of song) in honour of the Virgin's grief. Female solo/ Galicia,
where plaintive airs, improvised harmonies, bagpipes and Celtic love of country
come together in such 'ay-la-la's'. The text says: 'when pipes sound, my
heart flows out with love for my country- for in the whole world there is no
land like ours...' - Andalucia: Female group/, where ordinary day-laborers, drinking with their
friends in a bar, improvise such tricky and demanding flamenco songs, "as
long as the wine lasts!". Male, beating time on table top/ Leon.
A female chorus singing in honor of the bride at an old-fashioned three-day
wedding. Female group/ Valencia. A Christmas carol (aguinaldo) from the irrigated
gardens of this ancient kingdom of the Romans and the Moors. Four males with
trombone, clarinet and guitar: FTX-787 - Castile. The Song
of the Twelve (a Spanish form of an ancient Hebrew religious song) is here performed
to the accompaniment of the Moorish friction drum, as a Castilian Christmas
carol/ N. Spain, Santander. Girls of a shepherd village, accompanied
by castanets and tambourine, sing a carol of the shepherds on the way to Bethlehem/
Aragon. A schooled jota, recorded at a jota concert,
by a trained jota singer from the jota school in jota-mad Zaragossa/
Castile. One of the myriad charming Spanish Christmas carols ( villancicos).
is one tells how black Balthasar found the Holy Child. Female solo: FTX-788 - Aragon & Valencia:
ROUNDER 1762 2001 - Portrait of Andalucia: ARGO ZFB-45
- Sampler: ARGO SPA-212 - recs by Alan Lomax incl Mallorca & Ibiza: COLUMBIA SL-216 - Trotto: FOREST TRACKS FT-6004 "The
Old Spagnoletta" - Antonio MASQUERA (bagpipes & percussion): SMITHSONIAN
Music from the Festival of American Folklife - Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
London: TROUTBECK 121-6 (3) - El Nino di ALMADEO: WOMAD TB-3 1982 (Flamenco)
- RTR-0470 - EBU Radio Festival in Denmark intro by Cyril Tawney 5"RTR#1208/
CASS#0341 - CANTE FLAMENCO rec live in Juerga & Concert in Andalucia - NIMBUS NI-5251 CD-1165 - CANTE GITANO Gypsy Flamenco
from Andalucia NIMBUS NI-5168 CD-1166 - 4 sample tracks rec by Alan Lomax in
1952: ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 - Various Christmas recs: ROUNDER 1719 1998 - Galicia:
ROUNDER CD-1761 2001
SRI LANKA - Ceylon -- A Tamil rural song performed
with notable precision of enunciation by a male soloist and male group with
vani (bamboo flute), violin and mirdam (drum)/ Madras-Tamil religious song to Vishnu, with the second singer
a respectful step behind the lead. Two males with tambura (strings) and a reed
drone: FTX-781
- S.India, Madras. A former high-court judge, turned temple singer,
is respectfully trailed through a Tamil devotional song by his acolyte. Two
males with a drone: FTX-782
- Tamil. Devotional raga. Male solo: FTX-786
- A Tamil raga in honor of Shiva, one of the many large,composed forms
which have emerged in urban civilizations. Male solo with sitar/ A devotional
raga developing a melodic theme: FTX-787
- Surya SENA spoken intros to songs in English: DSS-001
SUDAN - AFRICA
SUMATRA - (RPL
35341 not in Lib) -- Senang Beru GINTIG & Syaiful Amri NASUTION (p-acc)
with vocal & percussion rec Medan, N.Sumatra (from SMITHSONIAN): ELLIPSIS
ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
SWEDEN: -
see also LAPLAND -- Clog-fid
rec 1953 IFMC Festival: FTX-610 - World Instrum: pastoral bark horns:
FTX-700
- Part of a courtly romantic ballad in the ancient couplet-plus-refrain, solo-chorus
style: FTX-787
- Skansen Orchestre CUPOL CLP -
Jazz & Folklore rec by Matts Arnberg DUX DPL-705 /CASS- 0055 Fid duet from
Dalarna NONESUCH H-7-11 - Herding from Dalarna (birch, cow's & ram's horns)
RADIO JANST (SWEDISH RADIO) RD-559-560 (78rpm) - Lapp "Yoiks" RELP-1029
Mediaeval Ballads/ Child Ballads in Swedish: RELP 5003-6/ CASS-45-0594 - Ancient
Pastoral music RELP 5017 - Players from Halsingland SONET SLP-18 - Swedish Radio
tape of "Pastoral Music" with sounds of birds & cattle: Radio 2 on 9/9/87:
CASS-0403 - Christy O LEARY & THE BOYS OF THE LOUGH: LOUGH-CD-006 1994 Ballad: "Sankt Staffan han Rider" (St Stephenn was riding) bef "Chistmas day
in the morning" (Shetland from Stickle) & "Trettondagsmarchen" (Walking tune) - Lars HOLLMER (p-acc/ "khen" mouth organ from Laos):
ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995
SWITZERLAND: - Alphorn & yodelling with dancers
rec 1953 IFMC Festival: FTX-610 - Evelyn Burgi (folksinger) Yodelling
Song at London Ceilidhe Club 1957: FTX-268
- "Telefon" by Group called "Mixture" (inc Jazz) rec at EBU Festival
in Denmark Radio 2: 13/1/88: CASS-0422 - Appenzell, Muota Valley, Ticino &
Carnival at Basle on Radio 3: 20/12/89: CASS-0031
SYRIA (RPL
26257)
TAHITI - Society Islands, Polynesia --
EMI HLP-1 History of Music B6: (a) Primitive
Song (b) Modern dance - CASS 0093 radio talk by Dr Adrienne Kepler 12/2/79 on
Polynesian Dance - poetry is basis - dancer was a storyteller
TANZANIA -- Hugh
Tracey Coll East Africa COLUMBIA SL-213 / CASS 0048 - Remmy ONGALA
(Dares-Salaam) & drum music WOMAD 002 - Jean Jenkins radio 3 1974 -
3"RTR-1194 - Chant drum & ankle bells rec Barrie Juniper 2/8/58 Dance for
God of the mountain & Male singer accomp gombo (monochord) rec Kalya
29/9/58: Song in praise of Hubi-hubi: RPL LP 27257
THAILAND - Lua.
Boys from a matrilocal and complementary culture sing softly outside a hut where
their sweethearts sleep. Male group: FTX-783
-A singer, trained in refined embellishment, performs a song of the "type
to soothe tired kings", accompanied by an orchestra of 2-string violins,
sitar (chakay), flageolet, oboe and tiny cymbal (ching)/ Northeast. A country girl from this irrigation culture sings
in a tense voice thanks Buddha for the beauties of his creations - especially
women. With mouth-organ accompaniment: FTX-784
- In this male solo, accompanied by wooden blocks, the repartee concerns proper
dress and comportment in a highly urbanized and stratified society: FTX-785
- Lua field song. Their shifting and fallowing system
of digging- stick agriculture puts minimum burdens on their hillside, jungle
farmland - Kai Chai Son Jungle Negritos, the aborigines
of the region with a song to banish evil spirits. Female solo. (BBC Cambridge
Expedition, A4): FTX-786
TIBET -- Sikkim Music
to accompany the dance of the God of Death, performed by lamas/ A Tibetan lama
orchestra of 2 shawms, 2 long trumpets, hand bell, cymbals, and 3 drums, plays
an introduction to a prayer: FTX-781
- A devotional to the deified, 8th century founder of Lamaism; 2 shawms, 2 long
trumpets, 2 shell trumpets, 2 short horns, a hand-drum, cymbals, and a frame
drum/ At sunrise, lamas summon the gods to help them, and in the evening they
send them back to their place with music on oboes and horns: FTX-783
- Tibetan lamas, using their voices to match the rumbling of big drums or gongs/
The same vocal strategy, carried a step farther, endows this monk's choir with
the divine voice of the muttering thunder: FTX-784
- Nomadic Tibetan traders dance in a linked line,
singing this one-phrase melody. Male chorus: FTX-785
- Tibet. Masked lamas prepare to drive out the demons of the old year and call
on the good spirits to aid them in the new. Shawm, trumpet, drum and cymbals:
FTX-787
- A pretty Tibetan girl sings sentimentally about her absent lover: FTX-788
TOBAGO -
CARIBBEAN
TONGA - Polynesia -- (RPL 20468 & 30146) -
talk on RPL 12/2/79 by Dr Adrienne Kepler with music examples incl large numbers
of men singing & dancing with clapping: CASS 0093 - version of "Blaze
Away" by Glee-Club unacc singers rec 30/11/53 from Sound Archive on Radio 2:
17/10/90: CASS-60-1017
TRINIDAD -
CARIBBEAN
TRISTAN DE
CUNHA -- Islanders (temporarily evacuated to UK during
volcanic eruption on Tristan) rec by PK & Maud Karpeles, Calshot, Hampsh
30.8.62 - 5"RTR-0914-20/ FTX-609
Songs dances customs & talk incl Basil & Percy LAVARELLO & Mary
SWAIN
TUNISIA -- A song from
the Awin, an oasis-dwewng people of Southern Tunisia, in the highly ornamented
Old High Culture style found throughout the Sahara. Male solo: FTX-786
TURKEY -- Tapan & zurla from Anatolia "Dance with this drum" rec 1953 IFMC Festival: WESTMINSTER
WL-5334/ FTX-610
- World Instruments: Shawm & drum: FTX-700
- Dervish liturgy, a supplication for mercy,
utilizes increasing tempos to induce trance. Male solo: FTX-784
- Kurds. War-like Moslem mountain farmer herders
with an ancient heritage of Oriental civilization. Male solo/ The
Barzani Kurds are fiercely independent and warlike mountaineer-farmers
and shepherds. The singer's long ornamented phrases are produced from a tense
throat and a rigid body. Male solo: FTX-785
- Dervish. One-beat meter is rare in the
vocal part except in children's songs or football yells, or, as here, in ritual:
FTX-786
- A dervish meeting in London, where the congregants repeat the name of Allah
over and over to induce trance. Male group: FTX-787
- Dervish ceremonies rec Deben Bhattacharya
1974: ARGO ZFB 91 - "Rhythms & melodies" (Blaise Calae) Club Francais
- Instrum Ensembles: OCORA OCR-56 / CASS-0107 (box) - Sacred Chants of Anatolia:
OCORA OCR-65 - Cabaret ensemble rec New York: SMITHSONIAN - recs by Wolf Dietrich
1977: TOPIC 12-TS-333 1977 - WOMAD TB-3 1983 Selda - tape from Peter Pilbeam
1979 of Anatolian Wedding Customs rec Ankara Radio:
CASS-0072 - MUSTAPHAS :RPL Radio 2 on 9/9/87: CASS-0403 - Nedia Hazir &
"Morgenland" rec by WDR (Germany) at EBU Festival in Denmark RPL Radio
2 13/1/88 CASS-0422 UGANDA -- Hugh Tracey coll East Africa: - COLUMBIA SL 213 / CASS 0048
URUGUAY
- SOUTH AMERICA
USA --see also under under MUSIC-TYPES: BLUEGRASS
- BLUES - CAJUN - SACRED HARP - SPIRITUAL - Song -Mississippi. Male solo and chorus accompanied
by axes on logs: FTX-782 -Mississippi Delta. classic 12-bar
blues in rock style, with charactreristic relationship of guitar and harmonica/
Mississippi. A newly-composed polyrhythmic 'double-cut' chopping song by four
prisoners: FTX-783 - Mississippi prison.
The major American black experience was of powerless, politically unstructured
groups. Male group with axes: FTX-785 - Mississippi. A black prisoner singing
his own personal field holler - a song that identifies him and expresses his
feelings/ A Southern U.S. Baptist congregation singing a long meter (slow, free
rhythm) version of a Welsh hymn, in heterophony, with the song leader "lining
out" the words from the hymn book. Male leader and mixed group/ Oklahoma. For a time, Woody Guthrie had
his own daily radio program in Los Angeles. This is a song he composed and sang
for that audience about a local and disastrous flash flood/ Afro-America, Louisiana.
19th century antebellum, dance song, suitable for fiddle or banjo, kept in the
repertory of Texan black prisoners. Male solo with guitar: FTX-787 - A commercial recording of Bessie Smith singing
the 'Mean Old Bed Bug Blues' with piano and guitar: FTX-788 - Frank WARNER & family FTX-901 - Alan LOMAX: FTX-902 - PK's "Appalachian Trail": FTX-903 - Alan LOMAX (Texas
songs): FTX-904 - Maud KARPELES Coll: FTX-907 & FTX-908 - Jim COUZA (ham dulc): FTX-909 - Michael PUNZAK (fid): FTX-910 - collection by PK: FTX-903 - coll by Maud Karpeles: FTX-907-8 - Jean JENKINS (songs with banjo): FTX-914-915 - Guy CARAWAN (songs with banjo): FTX-919 - Jean RITCHIE in Concert: FTX-920 - - coll by Frank & Anne Warner: FTX-921/ 922/ 923/ Frank PROFFITT: FTX-923/ 926/ 927/ 928/ 929/ 931/ 932/ 933 & APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 - Alan LOMAX:
FTX-941 - Guy CARAWAN & Peggy SEEGER: FTX-942/ "Sing Christmas" 1957 radio prog: FTX-950 - B&W Film by Pete Seeger of "Afro-American
Work Songs in a Texas Penitentiary 1966: FF-3301
- HOME MADE MUSIC HMM-1 rec by Mike Yates/ CASS-0242 - Hobart SMITH (talk/ voc/
fid/ banjo/ gtr & piano): ROUNDER 1799-2 2001 - Luther STRONG (fiddle with foot stomping) rec by Alan
& Elizabeth Lomax, Hazard, Kentucky, 18/10/37: ROUNDER CD 1500 1997
"Glory in the Meeting House"- CARTER Family: 7"RTR-0313-4
- Roy Edwards Thomas rec old people talking & stories in
Appalachians & Ozarks (dubbed 1981) CASS 0245 - John LOMAX: Radio
Research Project: Penitentiaries: AMERICAN LIB OF CONGRESS L-53 / CASS#0252
- The Hammons Family of West Virginia: AMERICAN LIB OF CONGRESS L65-6/ CASS#0251
- Samples of LIB OF CONGRESS in s/stereo 7"RTR#0309 - Louisiana Arcadians (Cajun)
ARHOOLIE 5009 - Lomax recs "Sounds of the South" ATLANTIC SD-1346/ CASS#0236
& ATLANTIC 1350 - Hudie LEDBETTER ("Leadbelly") RPL 13373-5 - Jean RITCHIE
rec New York 1950: RPL 16042-3 - Maud Karpeles 1st trip to Appalachians 1950:
RPL 17141-5 - Dick CAMERON (with gtr) of Boston Cowboy Songs rec London Oct
1956: RPL 22998 - Maud Karpeles 2nd trip to Appalachians 1955: RPL 23792-4 &
23799 - Peggy SEEGER: RPL LP 23195 - Paul CLAYTON (with gtr) Sea Songs: RPL
23448 - Guy CARAWAN (with banjo): RPL 24129 - Sandy PATON (with gtr): RPL 24201
- Peggy SEEGER & Guy CARAWAN: RPL 24212-3 - Perry FRIEDMAN (Canadian with
banjo): RPL 24566 - Lomax recs: RPL 26145-50 - Peggy SEEGER (Unesco): RPL 26265 -
New York children: RPL 27257 - Bill MUNROE & BLUEGRASS BOYS: (BRUNSWICK
LAT-8511) CASS#0237 - Susan REED: CBS M-61359 - "The Story of the Blues" (2
vols): CBS 66218 & CBS 66232 - SIMON & GARFUNKEL Great Hits: CBS 69003
- Oscar BRAND Singing Holidays CAEDMON TC- 1505 - "Songs of the Civil War" with the George MITCHELL Choir & Lansdowne Orchestra "The Blue and the Grey": WORLD RECORD CLUB T-629 - Jean RITCHIE
Field Trip US counterparts of English f/s COLLECTOR CLE-1201 - COUNTY - Josh
WHITE DECCA CP-66 & SPA-44 - ELEKTRA - EMI CAPITOL - Josh WHITE EMI CRLM-1047
- Peggy SEEGER & Guy CARAWAN EMI CLP-1174 - Alan LOMAX EMI CLP-1194 - KINGSTON
TRIO EMI T-1474 & 1352 - Tex RITTER EMI DUO-112 1973 (double album) - Canterbury
Country Orch F & W F-74-FW-5 - Robin WILLIAMSON & his Merry Men FLYING
FISH FF-033 - FOLK LEGACY - N Carolina rec John Cohen FOLKWAYS FA-2309 1964
- rec Mike Seeger: American Banjo tunes & songs in Scruggs style (3 finger
picking) (FOLKWAYS FA 2314)/ RTR-0316 - Frank PROFFITT rec by Sandy PATON: FOLKWAYS
FA-2360 1962 Horton BARKER rec SP: FOLKWAYS FA-2362 1962 - Hedy WEST FONTANA
FJL-506 - Doc WATSON FONTANA TFL-6083 1967 (M) "Home Again" - Jean RITCHIE GREENHAYES
- Mike Yates coll in Appalachia HOME MADE MUSIC - Blue Ridge Field Trip: (LEADER
4012) - Lonnie AUSTIN & Norman WOODLIEF: LEADER 4045 1975 - Kyle CREED,
Bobby PATTERSON & CAMP CREEK BOYS: LEADER LED-2053 1973 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
COLLECTIONS - Tony MOTTOLA F/s arr with harmonica, flute, gtr, percussion, auto-harp,
ocarina & effects: (LONDON HA- 2386) cass - "Banjo in the hills"(MELODISC
MLP- 12-115)/ CASS#0238 - STANLEY BROTHERS Concert CASS#0477 - Jean RITCHIE:
SIRE - Helen Hartness Flanders coll Vermont: MIDDLEBURY 1953 - Oscar BRAND History
of '76 MILLER-BRODY - Frank WARNER with Jeff & Gerret: MINSTREL JD-204 1976
- Joe HICKERSON (unacc) rec by PK, Ciderhouse, Dartington 30/8/75 7"RTR#0305
4s - Sacred Harp (Alabama) NEW WORLD NW-205 1977 - Hymns & Spirituals (Southern
Mountains) NW-294 1977 - Southern Instrum Styles NW-226 / CASS 0476-7 - Vocal
& instrum Styles NW- 236 - Black Music mainly vocal NORTH CAROLINA C-101
- Bluegrass NORTHERN LIGHT - Peter PICKOW "Alice's Restaurant" PICKWICK - Jack
LANGSTAFF accomp John Powell (piano) POWELL - Frank WARNER & sons: Songs
of Civil War PRESTIGE 13012 - Lonnie DONEGAN HMA 204 - American Song Train Alan
LOMAX & co PYE NPL-18013 - Country Blues RBF - Jimmy DRIFTWOOD RCA VICTOR
LSP-1994 - Ed McCURDY RIVERSIDE R-601 - Southern Mountain R-617 - Jean RITCHIE
R-620 - Ewan McCOLL & Peggy SEEGER: Matching Songs of Britain & USA
R-637 - Bascom LUNSFORD & banj: R-645 Jean RITCHIE & Oscar BRAND Riddling
Songs R-646 - Billy FAIER Art of 5 string banjo R-813 - Roy Edwards Thomas rec
old people talking & stories in App & Ozarks (dubbed 1981] CASS 0245
- Oscar BRAND ROULETTE - ROUNDER - Roy GUEST Cowboy Songs SAGA VID 5165- SAYDISC
MATCHBOX - SONET - SMITHSONIAN - Brownie McGHEE & Sonny TERRY STORYVILLE
SLP 220 - SWALLOWTAIL - Hally WOOD & others TANNEHILL HW-101 1980 - Cleoffes
VIGIL Alabados (New Mexico Penitente) TAOS TRP-122 - Pete SEEGER 5 str banjo
tutor TOPIC 12-T-23 1954 - Pete & 5 strings TOP-33 1958 (45 EP) - Frank
PROFFITT TOPIC 12-T-162 1966 - Hedy WEST (Bill CLIFTON on 2 tracks) TOPIC 12-T-163
1967 - Hedy WEST TOPIC 12-TPS-166 1966 - Alan LOMAX (voc/gtr) Guy CARAWAN (banjo)
& John COLE (harmonica): TRADITION TLP-1029 1958 - LEADBELLY TRANSATLANTIC
XTRA-1126 - RURAL BLUES TRANSATLANTIC XTRA 1035/1 & 2/ CASS 0248-9 - Doc
& Merle WATSON UNITED ARTISTS UAS-29490 - Carnegie Hall Concert UAL 3050
- Earl TAYLOR etc UAS-6049 - Joan BAEZ solo album SVXL-100 1963 - Bobby HORTON
(accomp) 1985 CASS#1232 "Homespun Songs of the CSA" (Southern Army in Civil
War) - Sandy Loewenthal's "Pop" Group rec DEM Studio, Dartington by Richard
Povall April 1979 CASS#0375 - Classic
Coll Book of Month Club (boxed set) VANGUARD SRL-7624 - Michelle SHOCKD rec
London concert Radio 2 Xmas Prog 30/12/87 CASS 0423-4 "If love was a train"
- rec by Mike Yaes 1979-1983 Old Time ballad singers and musicians from Virginia
& N Carolina: VWML-007 d/CASS 1026 1992 "Crazy about Song" - Instrumental -- rec
1953 IFMC Festival: FTX-610 - N Carolina harmonica player whooping
a fragment of "The Fox Chase", which recreates the chase and kill of
an animal. Male solo. (Seeger and Terry, A3): FTX-781 - Afro-American country jazz band performs the
blues, with a whisky jug for a tub, strings for a rhythm section and a harmonica
playing the lead parts that the clarinet and trumpet usually take. (Smith, Harry,
A2)/ S.W. Louisiana. A Cajun waltz of the type called 'fais-do-do" ("go to
sleep') because it was played for the grown-ups to dance while the babies
slept in the next room. Fiddle and guitar. (Bonstein, B 1): FTX-782 - Mississippi southern black slaves and prisoners
continued the African tradition of rhythmic work songs - an in-group culture
Male group with axes. (Smith, Harry, A 4); FTX-783 - Lomax coll fiddler: RPL 26144 - Old Time Fiddlers
Repertory: Missouri 1976 - Kimbles (Instrum) Virginia: MOUNTAIN MUSIC
4174 - Mike Seeger's Selection (cassette) 1974 - NEW FREEDOM - Paul CADWELL
(banjo) & Frank BANTY (piano) rec New Rochester, New
Jersey 1959: RTR-0321 - Recs made at a Concert in Virginia nd: RTR- 0322 incl Horton Barker, fiddlers &
banjo - Aly BAIN "Down Home" (TV Series) in USA & Canada: LISMOR LIF-7011
1986/ CASS 0814 incl Cape Breton fiddlers, Bill Monroe
& Bluegrass Boys, Mike Seeger, Tommy Jarrell etc - Children - Children's Songs NW-291 1978
USA & CANADA
- AMERICAN INDIANS - see also SOUTH
AMERICA -- Southwest, Western Apache. A song for the Devil Dance, part of the nine
day girls' puberty rite, Male group with drum and legbells/ E. Woodlands, Choctaw
Walk and Jump Dance. Mississippi/ Southwest. Taos
Pueblo men singing a gambling song: FTX-782 - Navaho Night Chant, part of a nine-day initiation
rite for adolescents. Male singers with rattles/ Plains
Teton buffalo hunters and mounted warriors
of the Sioux confederacy, vigorously calling out
their Omaha Dance song. Male group with drum/ N. American Plains, Cheyenne. A gently crooned lullaby from a valorous people
who fought an epic battle against white man's domination/ Northern Territory.
A Yirrkala tribesman of a diet-poor, acephalous,
aboriginal culture sings an embellished sacred song for healing the wounded.
Male solo with sticks: FTX-783
- Southwest, Zuni. A carefully rehearsed rain-making
song, performed by a male choir (See Kraho and Cayapo examples for similar pitch
levels)/ Southwest, Navaho. Male chorus with cooing
night chant/ Southwest, Pima. A male group sings about how a warrior,
exhausted from fighting to protect his people, is fanned by admiring maidens.
Male group: 784 - Southwest, Navaho. In the squaw dances that occur outside
a hogan where a curing ceremony is taking place, the girls approach the men.
Male chorus/ Plateau, Flathead. An Owl Dance Song
with nonsense syllables, large intervals, irregular meters, cascading phrases
- a characteristic combination among the non-stratified, hunting tribes of the
Americas: FTX-785
- Pueblos. The people of Taos, though they live in
a superb pueblo, are Plains in origin. In the summer the young men gather at
the bridge and sing in the moonlight - songs like this dance tune, its high
pitch level reminiscent of Plains singing/ Navaho, a modern piece, with harmonica accompaniment. Mixed
group with drum/ The Comanche, formerly hunters and
warriors of the Texas prairies, perform a Christian hymn in their own tongue/
Southwest. The Papago are incipient producers in the arid Rio Grande
country with a preference for cohesive unison performance of simple rather than
complex strophes. Male group: FTX-786
- Southwest. Pima men with drum accompaniment in
the tonally individualized, but rhythmically cohesive unison style of the Southwest
incipients/ N. America, Mississippi. A Choctaw Indian, heritor of a tribal tradition of complementary
maize gardening, sings a Drunk Song with repetitions, wide leaps and wide voices/
Southwest. Papago curing chant, one of many the medicine
man would sing in all-night ceremonies, shaking his gourd rattle and occasionally
brushing the patient with healing eagle feathers. Male solo with rattle/ Southwest, Pima. Strophes, notably those with many phrases
and complex structure, are especially frequent in North American Indian cultures.
Four men with drum/ Plains Cree (Canada). This melodic form - combined with
a terraced shape, high register, large intervals, and much repetition- form
a pattern typical of the nomadic hunters of the Northern Plains. Male solo with
drum/ Plains Indians, Pawnee. A ghost dance from
the pan-Indian revivalistic movement of the 1870s which for a time rallied the
hopes of the Plains Indians as they were being pushed out of their ancestral
hunting grounds. Male solo with drum: FTX-787
- Huron Iroquois (Canada) A thanksgiving ritual
Corn Dance song from the contemporary religious observances of the Huron-Iroquois
tribes of the N. East, led by a Cayuga/ Southern Plains, Kiowa.
Complex strophes with much textual repetition are commonest among game producers.
Note terraced melodic shape and glottal shake - other frequent North Amerindian
traits. Male solo/ Pueblo. Plains influence in the high-pitched, embellished,
tense-voiced, tremulous and terraced singing of Taos/ The
Plateau Flat head (with Plains connections) perform an Owl Dance, where
couples move around a circle in a shuffling step. Two males/ Eastern
Woodlands, Choctaw, heritors of the Mississippi Valley culture and of
a richt often polyphonic song tradition. Male solo/ Plateau,
Flathead, linked to Plains horse culture. A sweat-house song for curing.
Female solo: FTX-788
- Southwest Navaho. Masked dancers, representing
the grandfathers of the gods, perform this yeibichai chant with its characteristic
high-pitched sound, at the time when the young people are initiated into the
ceremonial life of the tribe. Male singers with rattles/ California,
Hupa. Vocal polyphony is virtually unknown among North Amerindians, except
among the complementary acorn-gathering tribes of North California, who habitually
sing in this style. Three men/ Pueblo, Zuni. Carefully
rehearsed and performed so as to induce the gathering of the clouds and the
coming of the rains. The Rain Dance has as big and complex a melodic and choreographic
structure as any art form in the world. Mixed group: FTX-789
- AMERICAN LIB OF CONGRESS AAFS L22 Chippewa Indians/
CASS-0212 - AAFS L-36/ CASS-0250 American Indian Songs of Today - AAFS L-40/
CASS- 0249 Sioux Indians - COLUMBIA SL-211 Canada
- SL-212 Venezuela - FOLKWAYS FM 4006 Nova Scotia Micmac
American/ Canadian - Eskimo Weather Chant/
Iroquois Lullaby -- AMERICAN LIB OF CONGRESS - "Acoustic
Roots": Radio 2 10/5/89 CASS-0428 incl Johnny Cash etc - Cree Indians (mouth music) BBC Radio 19/4/89: CASS-10-0717
- Louis SOLOMON (with drum) rec by Frank & Anne Warner, Hogansburg, NY USA:
APPLESEED APR-CD-1035 2000 Mohawk Chant & War
Cry - Belo COZAD, Kiowa Indian flute - talk before)
rec by Willard Rhodes, Andarko, Oklahoma, Summer 1941: ROUNDER CD 1500 1997
- Rain Dance performed by George BUCK, Red Jacket & group with water-drum
& horn rattle rec by National Film Coard, Grand River Reserve, Ontario:
from World Library ed by Marius Barbeau/ ROUNDER CD 1700 1997 USA: GEORGIA SEA ISLANDS
-- Bessie JONES sings a tradtitional Southern lullaby to the kind of regular,
simple meter most characteristic in agricultural societies where it may stand
for the regular routines essential to farm work: FTX-786 - Bessie JONES with Georgia Sea Island Singers rec by Alan Lomax 1959: RPL LP
26150 (3 songs)/ ATLANTIC SD-1350 1960 - with Ed YOUNG (can fife), Hobart SMITH
(gtr) & Georgia Sea Island Singers (voc & handclapping) rec by Alan
Lomax, St Simon's Island, April 1960 "O Day" & "Just Suits Me"/ with
John & Peter DAVIS, Henry MORRISON, Willis PROCTOR rec Frederica Apr 1960 "Sink em low": ROUNDER CD-1701 1997 - Nat RAHMINGS (drum) with Hobart
SMITH (banjo) & Ed YOUNG (cane-fife) rec by AL Williamsburg, Va Apr 1960 "Beulah Land": ROUNDER CD-1701 1997/ ROUNDER 1708 1997 "I got a home"
& "Walk on the Bay"
VENEZUELA: - SOUTH AMERICA - Indian Jews harp: FTX-700
- Guarauno,
Orinoco Delta, interlock, typical of the semi-nomadic gatherers of the
river: FTX-782
- Orinoco Delta, A Guarauno medicine man singing a curing song in the raspy
voice that so many Amer-indian shamans employ in therapeutic chants: FTX-784
- Orinoco Delta. A woman of these semi-nomadic, riverine
Guarauno gatherers sings a modern song: FTX-788 - COLUMBIA SL-212 - recs by Juan Liscano 1939-43: LIB OF CONGRESS L-15 1946
- coll Isabel Aretz & others: OCORA OCR-78 / CASS 0144 (box) - Group with bongoes, maraccas & ping-pong
1955 RPL LP 23930
VIETNAM - INDONESIA -
VIRGIN
ISLANDS -- Melcena SMITH & Elias FAZER rec by John
Storm Roberts, Tortola, Virgin Islands 1982: ROOT & BRANCH #1 1999 "The
Butcher Boy"
WEST INDIES - see
CARIBBEAN
WORLD -- "Blind
Man's Holiday" Songs from Czech, Romania, Greece, Africa, Vietnam, Turkey,
Hungary, Ireland, Brazil with talk about group (Australian) on Radio "Folk on
Two" 18/10/89: CASS-0164 - History of Music: Ancient & oriental (Egon Wellesz
EMI HLP-2 - UNESCO Radio Selection of World Folk Instruments: RTR 0782-0788/
FTX-700
- "The World Encompassed" Ethno-musicology Training Course introduced by Alan
Lomax: FTX-781
- FTX-789 - Far East, India, Africa & Americas, Continental
Europe NONESUCH H-7-11 - THE PENNYWHISTLERS: NONESUCH H-72007 - IFMC Festival
1953 WESTMINSTER WL-5324 / CASS-60-0543 - WOMAD - CANTOMETRICS Lecture "Map
of World Music" RTR-0310
YUGOSLAVIA - Bosnia & Hercegovina: FTX-601
- Montenegro & Slovenia:
FTX-602 - - Croatia:
FTX-603
- Macedonia: FTX-604
- Serbia: FTX-605
- ROUNDER 1745-2
(Double CD of PK's recordings including those on COLUMBIA SL-217 1951) 2001
- items rec at 1953 IFMC Festival: FTX-610
- World Instruments: "Sopela" shawms: FTX-700
- Montenegro dance song in which the village girls challenge
the lads to seize them. Male group and female group: FTX-781
- West Macedonia. Here an orchestra of winds
and drones play, as two or three circles of dancers move round in a big wedding
dance, held at the center of the village. Orchestra of clarinet, cornet, trombone
and two drums: FTX-782
- East Serbia. A springtime ritual song from a
region long dominated by the Turkish Empire with its oriental culture/ Serbia.
The ties of Turkish rule, are perceptible in the ornamental, rhythmically free
narrative song about the Turkish wars. Female solo: 786 - A
ritual song for St. George's Day from the Serbian mountains with femalegroupsoveriapping:
FTX-787
- Serbia. Work song with clashing seconds in a style
imitative of bagpipes. Four females/ Istria harbours an ancient diaphony of untempered thirds
and sixths, alternating with unison and octaves. Epic.song. Two males: FTX-788
- COLUMBIA SL-217 1951 rec by PK, Opatija 1950/ ROUNDER 1745 (Double CD) 2001
- Fred GREGORICH (p-acc) of Slovenia rec Cleveland, Ohio,
USA: ELLIPSIS ARTS 3xCD "Planet Squeezebox" 1995 "Soldier Boy Polka"
-- Lea NICHOLSON "Kopya" dance tune in 7/4 time LEADER LER-3010 - Dances
& F/s of Central & E Macedonia LYCEUM LCGW-103 - rec by Deben Bhattachyra
ARGO ZFB-53 1971 / Sampler ZFB 212 - PENNYWHISTLERS rec New York NONESUCH H-72007
& 72024 - Village Music rec Koenig 72042 - Serbia rec Vuysteke OCORA 558-548
1980/ CASS-0139 (box) - Serbia RADIO/TV/BELGRADE EP-11-072 - Tina ROZAC Ensemble
rec London 1961 TOPIC TOP-64 (45-EP) - rec Wolf Dietrich: TOPIC 12-TS-224 /
CASS 0085 - Billy FAIER (banjo): RIVERSIDE 813 "Kolo" (instrumental)
- SMITHSONIAN Group in the USA: "Wedding Song" - Croatian Group rec at
1953 IFMC Festival WESTMINSTER WL-5334 - Slaj Mjesce: YugoSlav Wedding Song:
SMITHSONIAN Music from the Festival of American Folklife - Silent b/w film of
kaval-maker by Hadzimanov about 1955 (on video)
ZAIRE - Hugh TRACEY Collection - BOITE A MUSIQUE Musee de
l'Homme 1946 (7" EP) Pygmies of High Sanga - OCORA OCR-35 1966 4 tribes/
CASS-0122 (box) - 53 1971 Mongo/ CASS-0110 (box) - 61 1970 Kuba/ CASS-0152 (box)
- WOMAD-1 1982 EKIPE "Kanda Bongo Man" - CASS-0096 rec Queen Elizabeth Hall
concert: "Music of the Royal Courts" RPL 7/7/87 Babunde & Pende - Jean
Jenkins on RPL Radio 3 1974 Jean Bosco MWENDA - "Aime Bebe" Nsimba FOGUIS &
TAXI PATA PATA Music of Zaire & Zimbabwe NYIRANGONGO MUSIC CTAX-1
CASS-1222
ZAMBIA -- COLUMBIA SL-213 Tracey
Coll: East Africa/ CASS-0048
ZIMBABWE -
Northern Rhodesia -- COLUMBIA SL-213 Tracey coll East Africa/ CASS-0048 -
DISC-AFRIQUE AFRI-01 "Take Cover" Zimbabwe hits - "Aime Bebe"
Nsimba FOGUIS & TAXI PATA PATA Music of Zaire & Zimbabwe NYIRANGONGO
MUSIC CTAX-1 CASS-1222