South African Music Archive Project
ILAM
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- Composer: Malakwen Chepsaikut (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Chepsaikut, East African, Kapsabet, Kenya, Malakwen, Nandi, Nandi district, Praise song, ILAM | Topical song with Kipukandet 5 string lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) This lyre is strummed like a guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe zither of Nyasaland. This gave 2 chords. Notes 1, 3 and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of number 1. The scale was: 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs.
- Composer: Kipkeino Arap Rop (Composer/Performer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Kenya, Kipukandet, Lyre, Nandi, Nandi, Rop,Kipkeino Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Topical song with Kipukandet six string lyre. Further details refer ILAM field card (D6F12)
- Composer: Kipkeino Arap Rop (Performer)Kipkeino Arap Rop (Composer) | 1950/09/09 | East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipukandet lyre, Nandi, Nandi, Rop,Kipkeino Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6F-12
- Composer: Kipkeino Arap Rop (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Kapsabet Nandi district Kenya, Nandi, Rop, Kipkeino Arap, Topical song, ILAM | A topical song with Kipukandet 6 string bowl lyre (5 or 6 string pentatonic lyre used by Nandi tribe in Kenya, also known as Kibugantet and Chepkong.) One day a friend called on Arap Kapero unexpectedly. He sang "Had I a shilling I would have bought flour to make bread for you." The accompaniment of this song is interesting for the extra half bar just prior to the start of each verse.
- Artist(s): Kepkose Arap Chepkwony | Composer: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkongo lyre, Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Kenya, Kericho, Kipsigis, Sitonik,Kipkemo Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card no. D6L4.
- Artist(s): Hepkoske Arap Chepkwony (Performer) | Composer: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik (Performer and Composer) | 1950/09/15 | Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Lyre, Sitonik,Kipkemo Arap, Topical song, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number D6L-4.
- Composer: Kipkemo Arap Sitonik (Performer)Kepkoske Arap Chepkwony (Performer)Kipkemo Arap Sitonik (Composer) | 1950/09/15 | Bowl lyre, Chepkongo bowl lyre, Chepkwony,Kepkoske Arap, East African, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Sitonik,Kipkemo Arap, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6L 4
- Composer: Bekyibei Arap Mosonik (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | East African, Indigenous music, Kapkatet, Kenya, Kibugandet lyre, Kipsigis, Lament, Mosonik,Bekyibei Arap, Praise song, ILAM | Further details refer to ILAM record number: CR2162.
- Artist(s): Kipsigis men (Performer) | Composer: Arap Ng' asuru (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/25 | Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Ng'asura,Arap, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6L-13
- Artist(s): Kipsigis men (Performer) | Composer: Arap Ng' asuru (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950/09/15 | Drinking song, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Kenya, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Kipsigis, Ng'asura,Arap, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: D6L-13
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