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Māori music / Mervyn McLean.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: mri Publication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : Auckland University Press, 1996.Description: xii, 418 pages : illustrations, map, music, portraits ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1869401441 (hardback)
  • 9781869401443 (hardback)
  • 1869403061
  • 9781869403065
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Maori music.; Online version:: Maori music.DDC classification:
  • 782.408999442 21
LOC classification:
  • ML3770 .M35 1996
Other classification:
  • 73.62
Contents:
Ch. 1. Song and dance in historical and social context -- Ch. 2. Recited song and dance styles -- Ch. 3. Sung song and dance styles -- Ch. 4. Game songs -- Ch. 5. Musical instruments -- Ch. 6. Performance -- Ch. 7. Composition -- Ch. 8. Ownership -- Ch. 9. Learning and instruction -- Ch. 10. Manner of singing -- Ch. 11. Scales -- Ch. 12. Melodic intervals -- Ch. 13. Rhythm, metre and tempo -- Ch. 14. Form -- Ch. 15. Song/text relationships -- Ch. 16. Summary of styles -- Ch. 17. Types of influence and change -- Ch. 18. Song loss -- Ch. 19. Hymnody -- Ch. 20. The modern genres -- Ch. 21. Cultural renaissance and neo-waiata style -- App. 1. Pronunciation guide to Maori -- App. 2. Glossary of plant, animal and bird names.
Summary: Maori music records and analyses ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and explores the impact of European music on this tradition. Mervyn McLean draws on diverse written and oral sources gathered over more than 30 years of scholarship and field work that yielded some 1300 recorded songs, hundreds of pages of interviews with singers, and numerous eye-witness accounts. The work is illustrated throughout with photos and music examples.
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"Publication is assisted by the Lilburn Trust and by Creative New Zealand"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-409) and index.

Ch. 1. Song and dance in historical and social context -- Ch. 2. Recited song and dance styles -- Ch. 3. Sung song and dance styles -- Ch. 4. Game songs -- Ch. 5. Musical instruments -- Ch. 6. Performance -- Ch. 7. Composition -- Ch. 8. Ownership -- Ch. 9. Learning and instruction -- Ch. 10. Manner of singing -- Ch. 11. Scales -- Ch. 12. Melodic intervals -- Ch. 13. Rhythm, metre and tempo -- Ch. 14. Form -- Ch. 15. Song/text relationships -- Ch. 16. Summary of styles -- Ch. 17. Types of influence and change -- Ch. 18. Song loss -- Ch. 19. Hymnody -- Ch. 20. The modern genres -- Ch. 21. Cultural renaissance and neo-waiata style -- App. 1. Pronunciation guide to Maori -- App. 2. Glossary of plant, animal and bird names.

Maori music records and analyses ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and explores the impact of European music on this tradition. Mervyn McLean draws on diverse written and oral sources gathered over more than 30 years of scholarship and field work that yielded some 1300 recorded songs, hundreds of pages of interviews with singers, and numerous eye-witness accounts. The work is illustrated throughout with photos and music examples.

Includes text in Maori.

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