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This song cycle for soprano and piano has texts by the composer in Maori and English.

“Awa Herea memorably evokes the physical appearance of symbolic significance of these braided rivers… cosmic weather-driven energy.” (Covell, Sydney Morning Herald).

“Its pace was shrewdly varied and the music encompassed a range of styles – from sung declamation to florid lyricism – without incongruity.” (Jack, Independent).

“The cycle displays all the characteristics of her [Gillian Whitehead’s] mature work. The vocal line is at once exultant and contemplative, the piano writing incisive or lulling; the formal shaping novel yet accessible. It is a memorable piece, filled with the energetic spirit of the natural world and finding through that spirit its own serenity.”

• Whitehead: Awa Herea; computer-set 

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• Whitehead: Awa Herea; computer-set 

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• Whitehead: Awa Herea; facsimile 

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• NZIAF: Gillian Whitehead Portrait; part 2 

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• Waikohu: Mere Boynton and Friends 

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• Tracey Chadwell's Songbook  Year: 1995 

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• Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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keyboards: 2 pianos and synthesiser; requires waiata from people of Maonga Marae

• McLeod: He Iwi Kotahi Tatou (We Are One People); facsimile 

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• McLeod: He Iwi Kotahi Tatou (We Are One People); facsimile 

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solo flute; 022(bass)2; 2200; perc.; strings

Maui Tikitiki a Taranga (“Maui formed in the topknot of Taranga”) was a demi-god found in the tribal myths of the Māori people of New Zealand.

Maui, the fifth and youngest child, was born at the edge of the sea. His mother, Taranga, thought he was stillborn, and wrapped him in a tuft of her hair and set him adrift. He was cared for by the seaweed until a breeze blew him ashore, where he was saved and brought up by one of his great-ancestors.

Maui was a great prankster. In one of his mischievous moods he decided to put out all the fires in the world. To bring fire back, he had to find Mahuika, the goddess of fire. He was awestruck upon meeting her, but decided to play a trick on her by taking fire from her fingernails one at a time, until she realised his game and threw fire to the ground, catching everything alight. Maui changed himself into a hawk to escape the flames, which singed his feathers. He called upon his ancestor to send rain and drench the fire, depriving Mahuika of her powers.

Maui decided to defeat death by journeying to where the earth meets the sky, where lived his great-ancestress Hine nui te po (“Great Hine the Night”). He was accompanied by many birds, and told them his plan to enter the body of the sleeping Hine and so defeat death. The birds sat quietly trying not to laugh as Maui, in the form of a caterpillar, crawled towards Hine. Suddenly the fantail could be quiet no longer and laughed aloud, dancing about with delight. Hine awoke with a start, realised Maui’s trickery, and he was killed.

• Maria Grenfell: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga - hardcopy score 

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• Maria Grenfell: Maui Tikitiki a Taranga - downloadable PDF 

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• Maria Grenfell: Maui tikitiki a Taranga; audio 

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• Norman/Grenfell/MacKenzie; cassette 

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picc2222contrabassoon; 423(incl. bass)1; timpani; 3 perc.; strings. Percussion only plays the interludes. Inst. for Interlude 2, Te Koanga: picc2222contrabassoon; 4231; timpani; 3 perc. and strings

• Farr: Ruaumoko; computer-set 

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• Gareth Farr: Ruaumoko 

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• Gareth Farr: Ruaumoko 

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• Farr: Ruaumoko (Interlude - Te Ru Tuatoru)  Year: 1997 

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• Ears Wide Open Taringa Areare Education Resource CD  Year: 2000 

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