Mbube- Nansi Imali (score & parts) - WW5

Mbube - "Nansi Imali"
(There's Money)
for woodwind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
by Joseph Shabalala (b. 1941) - South African singer - founder and musical director of Ladysmith Black Mambazo

 

Transcribed by Adam Lesnick and Stephen Barber. Arranged for woodwind quintet by Adam Lesnick.

A song about black South African diamond miners, Nansi Imali means, "There's Money" in the Zulu language. It is composed in the style known as mbube, a call and response form common to South African music.