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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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Jenny McLeod  

He Honore, He Kororia (Honour and Glory to God)

Duration: 01' 30" Year: 1996
for orchestra with electric guitar, bass guitar, and SATB choir

Jenny McLeod  

He Pepi ta Meri (Mary Had a Baby)

Duration: 01' 59" Year: 1997
for SATB choir with optional piano accompaniment

Jenny McLeod  

He Whare Ataahua Toku (I Have a Lovely House)

Duration: 01' 40" Year: 1997
for three part choir

Jenny McLeod  

He Whare Ataahua Toku (I Have a Lovely House)

Duration: 01' 40" Year: 1997
for SATB choir with optional piano accompaniment

Dorothy Buchanan  

Hine e hine

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1982
for SATB choir (with soloist), piano, and school orchestra

Jenny McLeod  

Ka To te Ra ki te Uru (When the Sun Sinks in the West)

Duration: 01' 32" Year: 1997
for SATB choir with optional piano accompaniment

Jenny McLeod  

Kia Puawai te Aroha (Let Love Flower)

Duration: 01' 58" Year: 1997
for SATB choir with optional piano accompaniment

Jenny McLeod  

Kia Puawai te Aroha (Let Love Flower)

Duration: 01' 58" Year: 1997
for three part choir

Jenny McLeod  

Kia Rere Atu Nei (Let Our Song Fly to You)

Duration: 01' 17" Year: 1997
for SATB choir with optional piano accompaniment