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Aroha Yates-Smith   Hirini Melbourne  

Hinemokemoke

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for female voice and taonga puoro

Hirini Melbourne  

Nga Tamariki o te Kohu

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2002
for voice, taonga puoro, guitar, and kapa haka

Hirini Melbourne  

Pumotomoto

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2003
for male and female voice with taonga puoro

Paul Booth  

Rawhitiwhiti

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2002
For high voice, string quartet, and percussion

Paul Booth  

Rere Atu Rere Mai

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 2002
For high voice, string quartet, and percussion

Dan Poynton  

Roimata

Duration: 08' 00" Year: 2000
for soprano and piano

Hirini Melbourne  

Taku Putorino

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 2003
For male voice and taonga puoro

Carol Shortis  

Tangi

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2009
for SSAATTBB choir with SATB soloists

  • Programme Note

    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

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Carol Shortis  

Tangi

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 2007
for a cappella SSAATTBB vocal ensemble

  • Programme Note

    The poem Tangi was written by 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.

    A tangi (or tangihanga) is a Māori funeral ceremony. The opening material, and position of the singers, is influenced by the Māori powhiri, where visitors are received onto the marae in a customary series of calls and songs by the tangata whenua, each reciprocated in turn by the visitors.

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Hirini Melbourne  

Te Korero o Te Kohatu I

Duration: 06' 00" Year: 2003
for female voice and taonga puoro