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Hinetekakara

for voice, taonga puoro, and bassoon

Year:  2004   ·  Duration:  16m
Instrumentation:  Voice used for waiata; Taonga puoro includes: Putatara, Putorino Matai, Pumotomoto, Pupuharakeke, Pu Kaea, and Nguru Rakau Maire

Year:  2004
Duration:  16m
Instrumentation  Voice used for waiata; Taon...

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Sample Score

Sample: Pages 1-5 of Hinetekakara

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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.


Contents note

This is a single movement incorporating improvisation. Other versions are for flute or cello instead of bassoon


Performance history

25 Mar 2004: Performed by George Zuckerman (bassoon), Richard Nunns (taonga puoru), Aroha Yates-Smith (voice); Te Papaiouru Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua

24 Sep 2004: P; Hinetekakara; Stroma; 240904

Performed by Aroha Yates-Smith (voice), Ramonda Taleni (voice), Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) and Ben Hoadley (bassoon)

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