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Hinetekakara

for voice, flute/alto flute, and taonga pūoro (improvised part)

Year:  2004 Instrumentation:  Taonga pūoro include: Pūtātara, Pūtōrino Matai, Pumotomoto, Pupuharakeke, Pu Kaea, and Nguru Rakau Maire.

Year:  2004
Instrumentation  Taonga pūoro include: Pūtāt...

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Sample: Pages 4-9

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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 pūtātara (conch shell trumpet), the spirit of Hinetekakara, then addresses rituals following the death of her future father-in-law (with pūtōrino), 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: Aroha Yates Smith