Thina sizwe e zi mnyama

( We the Black nation, we cry for our land )

( Thina sizwe e ze mnyama )

Edition

Published by Northern Harmony Publishing [USA ; Vermont] , 2004 ; in The Folk Rhythm I (80 p.)

Number of pages : 3

Editor or author of the restitution: Patty Cuyler

Type of material: Full score

Description

Text in: Zulu ; Xhosa

Genre-Style-Form: Folk music ; Secular ; Call and response

Mood of the piece: proud ; pleading

Type of Choir: SAATB (5 mixed voices )

Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5): 2

Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E): B

Tonality: F major

Duration: 2.5 min.

Origin: South Africa

Musicological Sources: An apartheid-era call for the return of land - which was lost through barter and fighting to the early settlers, and confiscated through the infamous Land Acts of 1913 and 1933 and the Group Areas Act of 1953 - to its rightful African owners. The melody

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