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Hinetekakara

for kaikaranga, taonga puoro, flute, bassoon and cello

Year:  2004 Instrumentation:  Taonga puoro: putatara, putorino matai (wheke), pumotomoto, oriori, pupuharakeke (flax snail), pu kaea, nguru rakau maire

Year:  2004
Instrumentation  Taonga puoro: putatara, put...

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Sample: Excerpt from Hinetekakara

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Sample Score

Sample: Page 1-3.

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About

Hinetekakara is the ancestress of Aroha Yates-Smith, the kaikaranga (singer) who provided the idea and the text of this piece. Hinetekakara lived on the shores of Lake Rotorua with Ihenga, her husband or father, an eponymous ancestor of the Te Arawa people, when the land was still being settled after the arrival of the Te Arawa canoe from central Polynesia. The four cadenzas, for bassoon, alto flute, flute, cello and bassoon, and bassoon link improvised sections, in which all the instruments participate. The singer initially invokes, accompanied by putatara (conch shell trumpet), the spirit of Hinetekakara, then addresses rituals following the death of her future father-in-law (with putorino), and then the birth of her son (with pumotomoto, an instrument used to assist at child-birth). A voiceless improvisation on pupu harakeke (flax snail), an instrument presaging danger, is followed by Ihenga's anguished lament as he finds the murdered body of Hinetekakara by the lake, by the place named for her, Ohinemutu, meaning the end of the woman. Finally, she is farewelled as her spirit returns to the afterworld.


Text note

Tuhituhi me rangi: by Aroha Yates-Smith


Performance history

19 Jun 2007: Encompass: Tuhonohono

21 Jun 2007: Encomapss: Tuhonohono

Performed by Tuhonohono: Ramonda Te Maiharoa-Taleni (voice), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), Ben Hoadley (bassoon) and Ashley Brown (cello)

Performed by Richard Nunns (taonga puoro), Aroha Yates-Smith (kaikaranga), Ingrid Culliford and Alexa Still (flute), Ben Hoadley (bassoon) and Ashley Brown (cello)


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