CD archive project : Arabia
Material type: MusicPublication details: 2004-6.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inItem type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Class number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Sound Recordings | VWML | BBC Recordings | Storage | SCD CDA BBC 133 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Reference only | SR04933 |
Compact disc.
Transcriber's note: Dubbed from a set of nine single sided 78rpm BBC discs (record nos. F 373-382). The numbers 1-10 are unlikely to be the BBC libary numbers, rather the numbers in this set. They are also numbered 417-426 on the labels. All information on the disc labels is handwritten. The record labels don't state what country the recordings were made in, but the Balharith and Hammam are (Saudi) Arabian tribes, and Shabwa (Shabwah) is in Yemen.
1. Who Defends the Country Takes the Taxes / sung on the march by Camel Riders. Tribes - Balharith, Hammam, Bal' Obied. Record F 373 (417', BBC, no. '1') -- 2. Song about the Occupation of Shabwa in 1938. Tribes as for 1. Record F 374 (418', BBC, no. '2') -- 3. Balharith camel trotting war song. Record F 375 (419', BBC, no. '3') -- 4. Balharith and Hammam camel trotting song (quicker tempo than 3 - trotting into camp). Record F 376 (420', BBC, no. '4') -- 5. Beihan working song (sung while digging or handling kit). Record F 377 (421', BBC, no. '5') -- 6. Song of the Aulopi [?] mountain men (Appeal to patron saint when starting on a journey). Record F 378 (422', BBC, no. '6') -- 7. We have come from the green cliff, war song of the Aulopi and Audhali mountain men. Record F 379 (423', BBC, no. '7') -- 8. [sung in the W. Protectorate: Salutes the mountains and refers to a coming encounter]. Record F 380 (424', BBC, no. '8') -- 9. Closing Camp in the Desert. Record F 381 (425', BBC, no. '9') -- 10. Greeting Song, when tribe meets tribe in the mountains. Record F 382 (426', BBC, no. '10'.
All tracks recorded March 1939.