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By Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 2002. [xii, 278 p. ISBN 1-86940-258-8. $59.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, bibliography, indexes, 2 compact discs.
By example rather than rhetoric, Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell have placed decades of scholarship into the service of New Zealand's indigenous Maori communities. Songs of a Kaumatua Sung by Kino Hughes is an eloquent volume of musical transcriptions, lyrics, and commentary that raises the bar for music editing endeavors. The heart of the volume is a set of sixty songs transcribed in a modified version of Western staff notation. Separate appendices present notes on text sources, and on the songs and transcriptions. Introductory matter includes a biographical sketch of Kind Hughes, historical notes on the Tuhoe people who live along the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, commentary outlining six major categories of song styles--recited (haka, karakia, patere) and sung (oriori, waiata, pao), and notes on transcription methods. Two compact discs packaged with the book present Hughes's own performances of forty-nine of the songs, drawn entirely from McLean's extensive field recordings made in the 1960s and 1970s.
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