Mervyn McLean, Margaret Orbell

Traditional Songs of the Maori

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work presents 50 traditional Maori songs and includes musical transcriptions (by McLean), Maori texts, English translations (by Orbell) and extensive notes on each song. Most common song types are represented: laments, love songs, war chants, songs of welcome, face-saving songs and witty occasional songs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Auckland University Press
• Rev
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 206mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9781869403140
• ISBN-10: 1869403142
• Artikelnr.: 35014535

Autorenporträt

Mervyn McLean is a former associate professor of ethnomusicology and director of the archive of Maori and Pacific music at University of Auckland. He is the author of Maori Music and Weavers of Song. Margaret Orbell is a former associate professor of Maori at the University of Canterbury. She is the author of Maori Poetry, He reta ki te maunga = Letters to the Mountain, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Maori Myth. They are the coauthors of Songs of a Kaumatua.