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Doc.381, 'Nose flutes and shell trumpets'


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Audio

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Authors

Roth, George Kingsley 

Abstract

Audio recording of nose flutes and shell trumpets, 15 min 51 seconds

  1. Nose flute, fangofango - Copy of BBC recording (Library number 20468) made in December 1953 in Nuku'alofa Tonga. Arranged recording [0.21-4.22]
  2. Nose flute - Copy of National Geographic disc specially recorded in December 1953 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. Arranged recording [4.22-6.06]
  3. Nose flute played by Marika Tivitivi, aged 74, of Nukui, Rewa, recorded in July 1957, in Suva by the Fiji Broadcasting commission. Arranged recording [6.25-9.20]
  4. Shell trumpet. Blowing of the triton shell or davui, at Rakiraki, Kadavu, October 1955. Arranged recording [9.34-9.56]
  5. Shell trumpet. Blowing of the triton shell or davui. First it is sounded clearly and well, but the other efforts are rather poor. Rakiraki, Kadavu, October 1955. Arranged recording [10.17-11.06]
  6. Shell trumpet. Blowing of the triton shell or davui. Somosomo, Cakaudrove, June 1957. Arranged recording [11.18-11.33]
  7. Shell trumpet. Blowing of the triton shell or davui. Serua, August 1957. Arranged recording. Davui ni ika bula [11.48-12.15]; Davui ni mati [12.22-12.37]; Davui ni soqoni [12.40-12.52]; Davui ni cere [12.54-13.11] Fijian music, songs and dances, recorded by George Kingsley Roth in Fiji in the 1950s. Most of the material is original and was recorded in the field or at the studio of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission Suva. Some tracks are copies of recordings made by the Fiji Broadcasting Commission or the BBC.

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.wav and .mp3 versions of audio file

Keywords

Roth, Fiji, music, song, dances

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World Oral Literature Project

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