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David Hamilton  

Akoako o te Rangi

Duration: 03' 10" Year: 2010
arrangement of piece by Erima Maewa Kaihau for SSA choir and piano

  • Programme Note

    This is the second arrangement made of a song written around 1918 by Erima Maewa Kaihau (1879-1941). It follows on from E moe te ra made in 2007 – both pieces arranged at the request of David Gordon of Diocesan School for Girls. Erima Maewa Kaihau was also involved in the complex gestation of the song Now is the hour.

    Akoako o te Rangi is also very much in the late Victorian tradition of ‘parlour ballads’ and owes little to traditional Maori song forms or styles. In fact the rather erratic word underlay of the Maori text suggests that the English version (hardly a translation though of the Maori) may have been te first made.

    The text is short although there may have originally been further verses (the printed music, published in 1918, contains just the one verse). It is a love song – the scent of a loved one wafting on the breeze to awaken the sleeping lovelorn singer.

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Dorothy Buchanan  

Hine e Hine

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1981
for voice and piano

Dorothy Buchanan  

Hine e Hine

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1981
arranged for SATB choir with piano accompaniment

Ronald Dellow  

Kua Mutu - Kua Mati

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1990
for SSA choir and drum

Dorothy Buchanan  

Reo Karanga

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1995
for mezzo-soprano

Yvette Audain  

Taku Papawira

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2008
arrangement for children's voices and orchestra, of a song written by Karl Teariki

Helen Fisher  

Te Puna Waiora (Spring of Living Water)

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2000
for soprano or tenor, SATB choir, piano, violin and congregation

  • Instrumentation
    melody line for congregation
  • Programme Note

    This is a liturgical work for Congregation, Choir, Tenor or Soprano, Violin and Piano, which was originally composed for the Asperges Rite in the 150th Jubilee Mass of the Wellington Archdiocese, 30 April 2000. It is inspired by the story of Christ and the Samaritan woman. The text in Maori and English is from the Gospel of John, Chapter 4 Verse 14: " The water that I shall give will turn into a spring inside you, welling up to eternal life." ‘Te Puna Waiora’ is dedicated to Fr John Greally, Advisor for Pastoral Liturgy and Spirituality in the Wellington Archdiocese. Subsequently, the choral part has been incorporated into the Mass, ‘Te Miha Tuituia’ published in ‘Music for a New Millennium’ by the Auckland Liturgy Centre. Also, the chorale theme is in the final section of the harp solo piece ’ Otari’ (2004).

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Helen Fisher  

Te Whakaaro pai ki nga tangata

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1994, r. 1997
Christmas carol for SATB choir, bongo and conga

Helen Fisher  

Te Whakaaro Pai Ki Nga Tangata

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1994
Maori Christmas carol for SAA girl's choir with conga and bongos

Leonie Holmes  

Through Coiled Stillness

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 2011
for SATB choir, rainstick, finger cymbals