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	Hugh Tracey of Prince Georges County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hugh Tracey is the least documented of the early Tracey settlers in Maryland.
		Hugh Tracey witnessed the lease of the one acre to Josias Towgood on Mount Calvert Mannor on the west side of the Patuxent River in the freshes near the dividing of said river, in a parcel of land called Charles Town from William Groome of PG Co., innholder and wife Mary on 22 April.
		Hugh Tracy is listed as receiving payment from the estate of Richard Tilyard of Charles county in an inventory of Tilyard's estate filed 10 Feb 1710.
	www.rootsweb.com /~leeg/tracey/hugh.htm (262 words)

	Hugh Tracey: The Sounds of Africa
		Hugh Tracey has stood as one of the major figures of modern musicology, in spite of the fact that he himself started as an amateur, not an academic.
		He became the noted expert he is known as today by traveling, listening to and recording the music of sub-Saharan Africa for almost forty years, spurred on by a personal fascination with the music and a self-proclaimed passion for the cultures that created it.
		Perhaps the standout tracks of the whole set are the Nyoro amakondere (horn) ensembles, each horn supplying a single note to the melody, passing the tune around in a swirl of notes.
	www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/tracey.html (701 words)

	Hugh Tracey recordings: part 2 / RootsWorld Recording Review
		Hugh Tracey (1903—1977) is one of the pillars of the discipline that still limps under the title of "ethnomusicology." Tracey's contributions as a primary researcher and field recorder are standing the test of time.
		Tracey, it seems, sought to capture and document a cross-section of society in the tribal villages, schools, workplaces and anywhere else he found music.
		Tracey also captured less familiar instruments: the chipendani (plucked mouthbow), the chizambi (friction mouthbow), the mulani (side-blown flute), the ngororombe (panpipes), and, of course, drums and songs that accompany each.
	www.rootsworld.com /reviews/tracey2.shtml (1085 words)

	Paul Tracey - Catalogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hugh Tracey - my father - was one of the ‘great’ men of Africa; like Dr. Livingstone, he was an explorer - not of the countryside but of African culture.
		Hugh Tracey collected and studied the musical instruments of Africa, and was particularly fascinated by a family of instruments known as mbira.
		He found about 100 different varieties, from the simplest ones of the Bushmen with 6 notes to the complex models of Zimbabwe with over 30 notes; with 5, 6 and 7 note scales, with gourds for resonators, stretched membranes and metal rattles for the buzzing effect which is characteristic of the ‘African’ sound.
	paultracey.org /instruments.htm (608 words)

	Paul Tracey - Africa
		Tracey proceeded to turn astonishment into delight as he lead the students in an exploration of the many different cultures of Africa through music, dance, and storytelling.
		Tracey played a talking drum from the Congo, small and large drums from Uganda and Victoria Falls, an mbira dza vadzimu (or metal thumb piano) from Zimbabwe, and a series of horns made from cow, impala, and kudu antelope.
		Tracey larded his performance with tantalizing bits of information: the rattles on his gum boots were made from caterpillar cocoons; drums should always be listened to at loud volume otherwise one will hear only the lowest notes; African drummers play not only with their hands, but also with their elbows.
	paultracey.org /africa.htm (864 words)

	mulonga - the loop
		Hugh Tracey began studying African Music soon after arriving in Zimbabwe from England in 1920.
		Tracey´s interest in African music at a time when European colonial settlers refused to recognise that Africans had cultures (Africans were referred to as natives and supposedly only had customs), often meant that he was shunned by white settler society.
		The well known author, Doris Lessing, who herself was declared an illegal immigrant by the Rhodesian regime because of her outspoken criticism of colonial rule, recalls that he was generally referred to scathingly as "that man Hugh Tracey".
	www.mulonga.net /loop/tracey.html (383 words)

	Kalimba - Décio Gioielli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Nowadays, people who know the Kalimba in Brazil are those who know Hugh Tracey's version made in the middle of the 20th Century.
		Hugh Tracey (1903-1977) was a renowned researcher who was a lover of African culture.
		Hugh Tracey was so impressed with this little and instrument with such a sweet sound, that he wanted to introduce it worldwide.
	bandasinfonica.com.br /kalimba/htm/htm-english/hist_e.htm (220 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Kanyok & Luba [Import] [Live] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is the fifth in a series of reissues of the seminal work of self-trained musicologist Hugh Tracey, whose work in Africa in the middle of the 20th century revolutionized the world's image of the art of African music, bringing to the non-African listener a genuine, unfiltered look at the local music of the continent.
		Tracey's methods were casual at times, moving the mic by hand as the performers played, finding the interesting moments, and of course, cutting off the often long ceremonial pieces in deference to the time available on his equipment.
		Collected by musicologist Hugh Tracey at a time when Belgium's will and ability to govern the Congo were fading, the recordings reflect a tremendous vareity of musical styles, instruments, and practices.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R8RF (439 words)

	African Writers Index
		And Tracey was well-placed to make an informed judgment: he and his team had traveled all over eastern and southern Africa recording traditional music, and Bukoba was among their last stops in their musical odyssey.
		Tracey had recorded several leading bards of the day, including Habibu Selemani's Kiziba teacher, Rutahindurwa Lukuuka (who was recorded without his knowledge and raised havoc afterwards), and the accomplished zither player and reciter Abdallah Feza Ibrahim (who was born in 1915, and is still around today, though he no longer performs).
		Hugh Tracey was only a collector, although his occasional annotations on the recordings sometimes do contain useful insights on the enanga music and content.
	www.geocities.com /africanwriters/Oralartists.html (5826 words)

	Music: Boston Phoenix CD Reviews (The Boston Phoenix . 02-14-00) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The fifth of what will eventually be a 20-CD series of music drawn from Hugh Tracey's enormous library of vintage traditional African music recordings, this 22-track collection is field recording at its very best.
		Tracey's work has long been renowned for its astounding quality and depth, but little of it is as downright entertaining as these village party songs from the mining regions of the southern Belgian Congo.
		They all embody that groove that Tracey once described as a "compelling lilt" when he was trying to sum up the sound of the masamba dance song.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-14-00/boston_music_clips.html (1511 words)

	mulonga.net
		Hugh Tracey actually visited the Zambian side of the Zambezi River where the Zambezi Valley is called the Gwembe Valley but since the river provided no physical barrier or border to the Tonga at this time, the different name is of little significance.
		Today, Tracey may seem rather old fashioned to us in many ways but one of the important positive features of his recording style was that he always made sure that he gave credit to the musicians whom he recorded by mentioning their names in the sleeve notes he wrote.
		Tracey was puzzled by the fact that a seemingly identical drum was referred to as gayanda in one context and musuntu in another.
	www.mulonga.net /resources/music_archive.html (3462 words)

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		Hugh Tracey recorded extensively from the Sudan border down to the Cape of Good Hope.
		As a young farmer at Gutu, in then Southern Rhodesia, he learned to sing along with his Karanga co-workers in the tobacco fields, but soon found out that no one in authority had the slightest interest in the music that he was discovering.
		So, without any training except a love for music and for his fellow man, he succeeded, eventually, in building up an archive that far exceeded that of any other researcher in Africa and will always stand as a benchmark for historians and social scientists, and as an inspiration for musicians.
	www.swp-records.com /pages/tracey.html (369 words)

	LP: Product Showcase: Online Catalog: Kalimbas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		That was the start of Dr. Hugh Tracey's life-long dedication to the preservation of African culture.
		One of the instruments that fascinated him the most was the one commonly known as "thumb piano", more correctly called "mbira".
		Today, Hugh Tracey Kalimbas® are African instruments that produce uniquely original sounds.
	www.lpmusic.com /Product_Showcase/Kalimbas (302 words)

	Tyrone - Tracey Family Name & variants
		It may be presumed that the Traceys of Tyrone are descended from the Cenél Eóghain
		Owen Tracey, Manor of Cecil, Cormore, Clogher, Tyrone, 1825
		On the births that I have picked up Patrick is listed as a cottier or labourer and from the movement he basically went were the work was so it is possible Anne put herself into the workhouse until he sent for her.
	www.traceyclann.com /files/tyrone.htm (2069 words)

	Global Downloads: March 2005
		Tracey saw his task as revealing to the world, and to Africans themselves, the rich variety of music to be found in Africa.
		Calabash Music is pleased to offer this collection global distribution, so that Hugh Tracey's mission can continue, many years after his death, and some 50-70 years after these recordings were made.
		The song featured here "Amatsotsi mama amanonge chalo" (Tsostis are disturbing the normal way of life), was recorded by Tracey on a trip in 1957-1958 to the "copperbelt" in southern africa, and shows the transition involved in urbanization and the changes that accompany large scale changes in labor patterns of communities.
	calabash.typepad.com /world_music_advocate/2005/03 (1159 words)

	UK DVD - Small Time Crooks [2000] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Hugh Grant is a splendidly despicable gigolo and a large cast do impressive comic turns.
		Hugh Grant also seems out of place, failing to get to grips with Woody's style.
		Tracey Ullman in particular is great, with Allen providing typically wry support, although...
	dvd-search.co.uk /B00005AFKN/Small_Time_Crooks_2000.html (583 words)

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		Letter of Attorney, 17 Dec 1670, Samuell Tracey, gentleman, and Hugh Williams, tailor of Peanketank, Glouster Co Virginia, appointing John Watterton of Gunpowder River, their Attorney to take acknowledgement of sale of land to them by Richard Winley and wife Mary, Witnesses John Scott and Walter Cary.
		That this Anne, is the heir of SAmuel Tracey is shown when Richard and Ann Taylor sold on 17 Dec 1691, 200 acres, Tracey's Level on Lightwood Creek to Lawrence Richardson.
		Perhaps he is an ancestor of Usher Tracey; for in the 1776 Census of Harford County is a Usher Tracey age 28 in the Spesutia Lower Hundred.
	www.rootsweb.com /~leeg/tracey/sam_tracey.htm (766 words)

	African Musical Instruments
		For 40 years we have produced the Original Hugh Tracey Kalimbas, the first and still proclaimed world-wide as the best.
		In the 1930's Hugh Tracey brought the Kalimba to the rest of the world as part of his mission to give African Music the global status it deserves.
		We are committed to the ideals that inspired Hugh Tracey: to make music (especially African Music) happen.
	www.kalimba.co.za (219 words)

	Mark's Music Tips
		The Hugh Tracey Kalimba bridges these two worlds, and is at home in both Western music and African music.
		Hugh Tracy kalimbas, and many other kalimbas made in the US, are in the diatonic scale.
		However, the 17-note Hugh Tracy Treble kalimba is also tuned to the key of G, but, the bottom note is actually a B, which is the 3rd (G=1, A=2, B=3).
	markholdaway.com /tip.html (6504 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Woody's sleeper \| 2000-05-18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tracey Ullman, Hugh Grant, and Woody Allen pay tribute to lovable losers.
		Ray, for his part, couldn't care less: He's tired of eating escargots and quail eggs and would be happier with a cheeseburger, thank you.
		Frenchy hires David (Hugh Grant), a charming but not very successful art dealer, to become their tutor in refinement.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2000-05-18/film.html (1061 words)

	smalltimecrooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Flash forward a year, and Sunset Farms cookies run by Joe and Frenchy is wildly successful, but Frenchy becomes aware that she doesn't fit in with the cultural elite.
		She enlists the help of art dealer and swindler David (Hugh Grant) to be Henry Higgins to her Eliza Doolittle.
		Hugh Grant is refreshing as a slimey character, yet is the same dapper Englishman he is in every movie.
	www.angelfire.com /ca6/hyporium/smalltimecrooks.html (654 words)

	HMT Catalog: Kalimbas, Mbiras, Thumb Pianos
		This was the start of Dr. Hugh Tracey's lifelong dedication to the preservation and dissemination of African culture.
		uring his travels Tracey came across many different musical instruments, but the one that fascinated him the most was the one commonly known as the "thumb piano." He developed a version of the mbira which would not be simply nailed to the wall like so many African artifacts, but actually played and enjoyed.
		House of Musical Traditions is proud to be the only US distributor of Hugh Tracey Kalimbas -- widely considered the best kalimbas in the world.
	www.hmtrad.com /catalog/percussion/kalimba.html (835 words)

	N. Scott Robinson-World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines
		Traveling to Zimbabwe in the 1920s (then known as Rhodesia), Tracey was attracted to the Shona mbira and eventually made an international version by the 1960s that he called kalimba.
		As a novelty device, the instrument made an unusual appearance in a comedy act by Robert Klein, an example of which is included on his 1973 recording A Child of the Fifties.
		White also used a Hugh Tracey kalimba (an early example is on "Kalimba Story" from Open Our Eyes in 1974), and he was able to successfully perform fast solos on the instrument and incorporate it into the body of his ensemble’s music.
	www.nscottrobinson.com /mbira.php (3751 words)

	SMALL TIME CROOKS - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much ...
		Tracey Ullman remarks, "The interesting thing about Woody is that you don't have to audition because he knows who he wants for the part.
		Allen comments, "It was wonderful to work again with Tracey; she is a genius.
		For the role of David, Allen cast Hugh Grant, whose undeniable charm in romantic comedies like "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and the more recent hit "Notting Hill," have made him an audience favorite.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=991 (1249 words)

	WAIT A MINIM! (1966)
		Andrew and Paul came by their musicality, at least partially, through their father, the late Hugh Tracey, who was Founder of the International Library of African Music (1954), which continues to this day (as well as the founder of the African Music Society, which wound down around 1980).
		Tracey was considered "the world's foremost authority on African music." The show had originally been commissioned by Leon Gluckman, a producer, out of the folk song repertoire already accumulated by Andrew and Paul.
		There was, however, a single understudy whom Andrew remembers as a "nice chap from Montana" who was trained in all the male cast's roles (this boggles my mind because of the musical expertise alone in the number of exotic instruments) but he never went on, although he did once or twice sing from off stage.
	users.bestweb.net /~foosie/minim.htm (4207 words)

	devin st.clair - about me - life in the key of 'G'
		I have all the models, the alto box, the treble box and several of the celeste models, including an alto trademark shaped solid board.
		I highly endorse the Hugh Tracey models as they are so well made and really have an even tone through the whole range of notes.
		But there are tons of variations on the theme, you may have seen some of the gourd kalimbas before.
	www.sonic.net /~saint/personal/kalimba.htm (354 words)

	The Hugh Tracey Recordings: Africa
		This is a series of important recordings from Africa, recorded by pioneering musical explorer Hugh Tracey in the 1950s and 1960s.
		These recordings (some monaural, some stereo) were made on location by Tracey, one of the first Europeans to really delve deeply into the local music of central and southern Africa.
		From Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, he was in effect sub-saharan Africa's first music star, discovered by Hugh Tracey in 1948.
	www.cdroots.com /tracey.shtml (620 words)

	Chopi Timbila Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The music can be quite complicated and dense, often featuring rhythms of 3 against 4, and a high level of syncopation.
		The Chopi timbila are typically tuned to what Hugh Tracey calls a "minor whole-tone scale".
		What is meant by this phrase is that the degrees of the scale are all the same distance apart, more or less, so that the octave is divided into 7 equal parts, instead of the twelve that Western ears are used to.
	www.efn.org /~qehn/global/africa/chopi.htm (145 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Small Time Crooks \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Speaking of likable, that term could be used to describe the members of Allen's cast as well as the character he plays, ex-con Ray Winkler.
		Despite his bluster, Ray isn't the genius he pretends to be, though he does talk quickly enough to persuade his wife Frenchy (Tracey Ullman) and three pals (Michael Rapaport, Tony Darrow and Jon Lovitz) to help him pull off a bank robbery.
		But Ray's not happy because his wife has become a social climber, and she hires David (Hugh Grant), a shrewd art dealer with designs on her millions, to give her "culture" lessons.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,120000055,00.html (486 words)

	ILAM 50th Anniversary Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Andrew Tracey with his brother Paul, as MC, plus the Steelband put on a 3 hour show.
		It was put on as a celebration and paying homage to the late Hugh Tracey in a praise song composed by Stanley Glasser.
		So it was no surprise to find the audience glued to their seats experiencing some of the grand musics of Africa, i.e.
	www.scifac.ru.ac.za /cathedral/spire/sep04/ilam.htm (148 words)

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