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These two a cappella folksong settings were written for the 2011 – 2012 NZSSC to sing during their NZ concerts and on their trip to the Ihlombe South Africa Music Festival in July 2012 . The settings were based on existing folk melodies and texts and were designed to challenge the choir. ‘Lullaby’ is a gentle song featuring both Maori and English text, in which a mother encourages her child to go to sleep. The rousing ‘Altered Days’ relates a tale of changed fortunes, for the better, of an emigrant from Scotland to New Zealand.

• Richard Oswin: Sweet Sleep and Altered Days - hardcopy score 

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• NZSSC: Akoako i te rangi CD  Year: 2012 

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This work is for SATB choir, for kapa haka performing karanga, waiata, poi, patere and haka, also for contemporary dance and taonga puoro. It is in three sections: Te Ahiahi(Evening), Te Po (Night), Te Atatu (Dawn), and is a parable for the bicultural journey of Aotearoa New Zealand. In 1986 I wrote the lyrics while studying te Reo Maori at the Kuratini with Teariki Mei and in 1990, I completed the music while doing Composition Honours at Victoria University. In the same year ‘Takiri Mai Te Awatea’ was workshopped at Ngake Poneke Young Maori Club, but it is yet to receive a full performance.

• Fisher: Takiri mai te awatea; facsimile 

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The poem Tangi was written my Megan Simmonds, a New Zealand poet who lives in the Bay of Plenty. I wanted to explore the use of vocal overtones in this piece; they have often been connected with the spiritual or other-worldly in the various cultures where the technique is practiced. Whilst researching this subject I came across the poem Overtone by American writer W. S. Merwin:

…the names were read of those no longer there
that sound of what made no sound anymore
made up the chords that in a later year
some still believed that they could overhear

Notes by Carol Shortis

• Shortis: Tangi; computer-set 

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Te Heuheu Herea, a high chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa in the Taupo district, died in 1820 and was mourned by his son in this song of lament (waiata tangi). The text was collected by Sir Apirana Ngata in his book ‘Nga Moteatea’ of 1959. It is written in a dialect differing in several aspects from present day Maori. There is no record of the original chant; however this setting utilises some of the devices and conventions from that tradition.

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• Marshall: Tangi and Real Gods 

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• Marshall: Tangi  Year: 1999 

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The Love Song of Rangipouri is based on a Maori chant recorded at Makara, near Wellington in 1963. It tells how a fairy chief, Te Rangipouri, won and lost the first human woman to ever reach New Zealand’s shores.

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• Tower New Zealand Youth Choir: Winds that Whisper  Year: 1998 

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• Griffiths, D.: The Spirit of God; facsimile 

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• Jagger: Te Waiata 88 (from Three Maori Psalms); facsimile 

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Deep in the bush where there were no cicadas singing, the moist smell of soil, a small stream, dark ferns. The middle of the ponga fern looked as if it would be a perfect bed to curl up in. I half believed there were bush dwelling creatures that did live and sleep there, watching me from the shadows.

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• McLeod: Tohungai Ra Matou (Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us); computer-set 

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• McLeod: Twelve Maori Songs; computer-set 

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