Derived from: Blacking, John. 1969c. "Songs, Dances, Mimes and Symbolism of Venda Girl's Initiation Schools, Part 1." African Studies 28(1:3-35).

Copyright 1969 by Witwatersrand University Press. Used with permission.

The musical transcriptions were taken from: Blacking, John. 1970b. "Tonal Organization in the Music of Two Venda Initiation Schools." Ethnomusicology 14(1):1-54.

Copyright 1970 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Press. Used with the permission of the University of Illinois Press.

For analytic purposes Blacking placed all the transcriptions in the 'key' of C., and therefore most of them are not transcribed at the pitches in which they are generally performed.

 
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