Lipina Tsa Koo Bokone
(Songs of the Far South)
R39.00
ISMN
979-0-804001-30-3;979-0-804001-31-0
Notation
Dual notation (staff & tonic solfa), Staff notation
Composer
Scoring
choir SATB
Edition
Joshua Pulumo Mohapeloa Critical Edition
Category
The ‘far south’ in this song is southern South Africa, where the songs of Zulu and Xhosa students whom Mohapeloa, who was from Lesotho, heard at Lovedale and Fort Hare, caused him to rethink his ideas about the choral voice. ‘Lipina Tsa Koo Bokone’ was first published in 1935.
