Ethnographic wax cylinders
Two Lullabies: "Lali Punnale" and "Lali lali Sri"
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Type
sound
Duration
00:02:03
Cultures
Tamil
Shelf mark
C72/876
Recording date
1910 or 1911
Recording locations
Tanjore, India
Recordist
Fox Strangways, A. H.
Abstract
Two lullabies sung by a female school teacher: 1. Lali Punnale [starts at 0:10]; 2. Lali lali Sri [starts at 0:45]. The same singer as C72/872-5, but not transcribed in the book The Music of Hindostan. A photo of the singer with the caption "Schoolmistress, Tanjore" is given in plate 4, next to page 63. Arthur Fox Strangways (1859-1948) came from an aristocratic family, and studied music at Balliol College Oxford, and then at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. It was after a career as a teacher that Fox Strangways embarked on a field trip to India from 1910 to 1911, having travelled to the country some years earlier. In the course of his fieldwork, Fox Strangways recorded over forty wax cylinders in Raipur, Madras, Trichur, Tanjore, Allahabad, Jhelum and Poona. As a result, Strangways published The Music of Hindostan in 1914, containing transcriptions of his recordings, and of other musical examples.
Description
Fox Strangways No.25a
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