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Indigenous Music of the Māori :
- Waiata tawhito : E pa to hou (unidentified speakers)
- kaikōrero : Wiremu Kerekere.
- kaikōrero : Wiremu Parker.............Māori tribes established themselves in
places where there canoes landed, and though a few tribal territories where
altered by conquest they remained in the main associated with the landing place
of their original canoes.................the Māori preserved his traditions by constant
oral re-iterations from genertion to generation.................
Part of the tradation was by paki-waitara or spoken legend and partly by songs
and chants.............and many of their chants recall some aspects of the great
canoe saga even today.
- haka : Toia mai te waka
- Poi chant : Takitimu (Waihirere).
- kaikōrero : Wiremu Parker
- Invocation/karakia : unidentified Te Arawa kaumatua.
- Toia Tainui...........Tainui kaumatua.................
- Oriori : "Popo".....tells of the kumara being brought to NZ by the lengenary hero
...Paurangahua.
- waiata whakapapa : links the East Coast tribes ..."Ko Turanga wahine, ko
Turanga tane.
There was songs for all occasions, love, grief, battle, parting, mourning, and
even songs of cursing.
- this waiata is about a chief invoking a curse agaist another chief who caused a
death in battle agaist a kinsman of the singer.... E hina kai ko to kai riha kai roro.
- Te Rauparaha farewell song when he left his home of Kawhia....E ra e te tai o Kawhia
ka wehea..........translated by Wiremu Parker.
- waiata tangi : E hika ma e uia mai..............old kaumatua (unidentified.)
- haka taparahi : Paikea.
NB: excellent kōrero by Wiremu Parker, during most of the items.