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Gillian Whitehead
"Aria" from Outrageous Fortune
Year: 1998
for soprano, taonga puoro, flute, bassoon, cello and piano
Ronald Dellow
Fanfare and Finale
Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1999
fanfare and finale for massed choirs and narrator
David Hamilton
He Ha Kotahi (With One Breath)
Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1995
for koauau, 3 flutes and alto flute
Gillian Whitehead
Hineraukatauri
Year: 1999
duo for piccolo/flute/alto flute, and Maori flutes
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piccolo, C flute, alto flute. Taonga puoro: tumu tumu, karanga manu, putorino toroa, putorino maine, putorino nui, purerehua, pakunu. Taonga puoro parts mostly improvised.
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Programme Note
In the tradition of the Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, Hine Raukatauri is the goddess of music and dance. She is embodied in the form of the female case-moth, who hangs in the bushes and sings in a pure, high voice to attract the male moths to her. Her hair is found as a fern, the hanging spleenwort, and her voice is heard in the sound of the putorino, an instrument known only in Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand). The putorino is an instrument that can be played in various ways – as a flute, as a trumpet and as a means of enhancing or altering the human voice.
Hineraukatauri is written for two performers, one playing conventional flutes (piccolo, C and alto flutes), and the other for taonga puoro (instruments). The score features three different putorino, which, like all taonga puoro, (and also the songs and chants) have a small pitch range, rarely exceeding a fourth, which varies from instrument to instrument. Three putorino are used in this piece – one made of albatross bone and two of wood, and both the flute and trumpet voices are used. Other instruments used are a karanga manu (bird-caller), a purerehua (swung bull-roarer) and tumutumu (tapped instruments.)
The flute player’s part is notated, but the music for the taonga puoro is improvised; there are areas when the flute player is encouraged to improvise with the taonga.
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Whitehead: Hineraukatauri; facsimile
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Gillian Whitehead: Hineraukatauri; video
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Whitehead: Hineraukatauri
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NZIAF: Gillian Whitehead Portrait; part 1
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Tuhonohono: Music by Gillian Whitehead
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Tuhonohono
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Sound Barrier Year: 2006
CD
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Gillian Whitehead: Puhake ki te rangi Year: 2007
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Luca Manghi: Quays Year: 2012
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Gillian Whitehead
Ipu
Duration: 42' 00" Year: 1997
for narrator, taonga puoro (Maori instruments), jazz piano and cello
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Instrumentation
Taonga Puoro: ipu, pahu pounamu, koauau rakau maire, panguru, hure puru hau, poi awhio whio, ua roria rau karamu, putorino rakaumatai, kouaua pponga ihu, kouauau koiwi kuri, koauau koiwi toroa, tumutumu, pupu harakehe, porotiti, purerehua kohatu pounamu, pukaea rakau manuka, karanga manu; Maori instruments and piano improvised (guidelines in score), cello notated
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Gillian Whitehead: Aftermath
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Gillian Whitehead: Waka, Kowhai and Tui
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Gillian Whitehead: Waka's Love for Kowhai
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Gillian Whitehead: The Storm
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Whitehead: IPU Year: 1998
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