September 2, 2018...wonderful country, I can write a lot about it’” (Nts’iuoa Mohapeloa, Author’s Interview, 28 Sep. 2006). Dove calls are the most common natural sounds in Africa, and in Lesotho there...
February 11, 2024Minya zɔzɔ (Be wary as you walk) for SATB chorus was composed August 8, 1932. It has a sacred theme, asking Jesus for strength to walk carefully in the world...- September 2, 2018‘Lefatše le Letle’ praises the land made by God; and ‘the land’ here is not the earthly world but heaven, a place one enters after death. Together with ‘’Mōpi oa...
- February 11, 2024...he jwɛnmɔ (Thoughts about death) for SATB chorus was composed October 29, 1932. It is one of Amu’s miscellaneous secular songs. To our knowledge, this song has never been performed....
- February 11, 2024Mo Amen! (Well done!) for SATB chorus was composed in 1932, and is one of Amu’s sacred works....
- February 11, 2024Kae sɛ owu reba (Remember that death is approaching) for SATB chorus was composed April 1, 1933. It is one of Amu’s miscellaneous songs....
- September 2, 2018...1966. The narrator speaks from the perspective of youth, whose country is depicted as their mother, and Mohapeloa’s dedication (‘khethelo’) at the beginning of the book is, “To the young...
- February 11, 2024Mmerante ne mmabaa bre (Young men’s and young ladies’ era) for SATB chorus was composed November 21, 1933, and even though God is mentioned in the song text, this is...
- September 2, 2018...troops had fought alongside the Allies in World War II the ‘Lesotho’ longed for in the song is an independent homeland of the future. As the composer’s brother, historian J.M....
- February 11, 2024...‘Ɔbra yɛ ɔko,’ which translates into English as “Life is a battle” in mind when he wrote this song (Philip T. Laryea. Ephraim Amu: Nationalist, Poet and Theologian, p. 67)....
- September 1, 2022...the sequence of chords that forms the ‘basic tune’ of daniel’s dream was used – in a recording of more than 13 minutes it doesn’t appear until 3’40”. The friend...
- September 2, 2018...the new national anthem of Lesotho, but for some strange reason it did not replace the colonial anthem, ‘Lesotho Fatše La Rōna’ (Our Country Lesotho), which remains Lesotho’s national anthem....
November 17, 2022...This is by no means unfinished; in fact, it is a perfect little 10-bar piece for piano, synth, guitar and drums, and a delightful spoof on piano rag style, with...
December 22, 2022...autograph score it is THREE PIECES FOR FLUTE AND PIANO ON B-A-C-H. Knowing Reddy’s later dislike of capitals letters, ACE’s title is three pieces for flute and piano on b-a-c-h....- September 2, 2018Mohapeloa completed ‘Liba-seholo (N.T.T.C.)’ in 1975, publishing it in Cape Town in 1976 as song No. 13 of 25 in Meluluetsa ea Ntšetso-pele le Bosechaba Lesotho (Anthems for the Development...
- September 2, 2018...the Development of the Lesotho Nation). It continues the theme of song No. 1 ijn the 1976 collection, ‘Lesotho ‘M’a Basotho’ (Lesotho, Mother of the Basotho), in which the country’s...
September 1, 2022...2001 he wrote a sequel encompassing more friends, friends suite: a touch of clazz II. ‘Hike’ was Reddy’s name for his long-time partner, Heike Asmuss. He did not notate most...- September 2, 2018...distinction between ‘lithallere’ and ‘meloli’ (pronounced ‘melodi’) is one between harmonized music for choir – ‘choral song’ or as it is translated here, ‘fine song’ – and folksong or sounds...
August 26, 2022...surviving handwritten facsimile sources for his Channel 18 pieces are sketchy, like this one, which consists only of a lead sheet (shown on the right) and a chord sketch. ...- September 2, 2018‘Mafeteng’, a straightforward school song celebrating a place in Lesotho, was first published in 1939. Mohapeloa wrote several songs about place: other ones being ‘Morija’, ‘Maseru’, ‘TY (Teyateyaneng)’, ‘Leribe’, and...
- September 2, 2018...to 1985.) ‘Mahlo a lefatše’ literally means ‘the eyes of the world’: ‘selemo sa basali’ literally means ‘women’s year’. Mohapeloa himself gave the English translation ‘Women’s Year’ as his subtitle,...
September 1, 2022...piano piece later in Reddy’s output called forbidden wedding II, which has nothing to do with this forbidden wedding.) The image is one of Reddy’s computer graphic designs. ...
September 15, 2019...but written for SAATB as Methaka, Emang, it tells of a commonplace event in Lesotho: farewells between young people who are going off to seek work and friends who are...- September 2, 2018...the Maloti (also called Maluti or Drakensberg) mountains. The word ‘mokhotlong’ itself has nothing to do with mountains, deriving from the Sesotho name for the southern bald ibis (Geronticus calvus)....
- September 15, 2019’Mutlanyana was the first song Mohapeloa composed, some time in late 1929, and the score was published for SATB in his first songbook, in 1935. The Morija Training College Male...
