- Additional Authors
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (32 minutes) : digital, mono
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Nature sounds.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title and location provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten notes on original container.
- Handwritten notes on original container: "Sept. 8-27 Dotenng [Doteng Gewog, Paro District, Bhutan] to Wangd[i] Phodrang [district, Bhutan]".
- Sound quality is mostly good; recording volumes are uneven and there are occasional background sounds. An unidentified speaker introduces most of the recordings.
- Accompanying handwritten inserts: 1. "Bells on mules - along trail, Calling mules / Mulateer play flute - (high background level) / Lynche Zong [sic] - 2 men 3 women, singing song / Barrymen [sic] signaling / Song about Yaks, good / Llama [sic] praying at Lynche [sic] / Flaying Volly [sic]" ; 2. "Dance in the same village / Yaks in upper hills of Bhutan / Gaza Zong [sic] - playing drums / Singing song - woman / Resitation [sic]".
- Handwritten post-it note attached to original container: "Smithsonian tapes - Birds ; go to David Tudor letter".
- Donor's inventory number: R135.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Language (note)
- Recorded songs are performed in Dzongkha with brief English introductions of the recordings.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Contents
- Mulateer calling and bells on mules (0:00-1:32) -- Mulateer plays flute (1:33-2:48) -- Country song in Lhuentse Dzong, Sep. 13th (2:49-5:00) -- Countrymen signaling (5:01-6:26) -- Song about yaks (6:28-9:04) -- "Yaketeer" whistle (9:06-9:40) -- Lama's puja, Lhuentse Dzong (9:41-11:58) -- Flailing sound, Laya (12:01-12:36) -- Laya, village dance [men singing] (12:37-15:01) -- [women singing] (15:02-17:05) -- [man singing with background voices talking] (17:06-17:48) -- Yaks in upper hills, Sep. 20th (17:58-18:34) -- Drum song, Gasa Dzong (18:36-19:06) -- Woman singing, Gasa Dzong (19:07-24:39) -- Recitation, Gasa Dzong (24:45-26:28) -- [Dong lingm tones, Dzong] (26:29-29:40) -- [Man singing a trail song], ends abruptly (29:41-32:27)
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2374
- OCLC
- 890150657
- Title
Folk songs and sounds recorded in the Paro and Wangdi Phodrang districts of Bhutan.
- Production
[probably 1970's?]
- Playing Time
003227
- Type of Content
sounds
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in, Paro, Bhutan, and, Wangdi Phodrang, Bhutan, [probably 1970's?].
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (33 minutes) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, half track, mono ; 3 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2374
- Language
Recorded songs are performed in Dzongkha with brief English introductions of the recordings.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on July 1, 2014.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2374