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From early creators of traditional mōteatea (chanted song-poetry) to contemporary composers who draw on introduced musical styles and influences, the Māori world has been home to many important composers. Story by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal. Traditions of composing. Mōteatea is a centuries-old tradition of chanted song-poetry. Mōteatea were composed for many purposes and reasons, and their composers were great poets. Chiefs and leaders were often composers who used music as an important way to communicate ideas. Traditional composers sometimes composed chants to call on gods or spirits. Gods and ancestors could express themselves in the world through music and the human voice. Early traditional composers.

Takuahi: Te oriori mō Tāmaunga-o-te-rangi - Mana Atua, mana Whenua, Mana Tangata (Thesis, Master of Arts (MA)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. E roa nei tātau te Māori nō ngā wā o Hawaiki e tito ana i te waiata, i te haka, i te oriori, i te mōteatea hei waka kawe i ngā kōrero tuku iho ki ngā whakatipuranga hou. He putuputu tonu ngā tūmomo karere, ka raua atu ki roto i wēnei momo titonga waiata a te Māori. Ka whārikihia e ngā tohunga kaitito ngā karere nei mā te reo kīwaha, mā te reo whakataukī, mā te reo auaha hei kura huna. Mā konei ake e ruku atu ai ki te raparapa i ngā kura huna e whakatauira ana i te mana Atua, mana whenua, mana tangata hei mana ahi kā. Mā tēnā hoki e whakatauira te mana ahi kā, kai a Tama, otiā, hei tauira atu ki ngā uri o Te Whānau-a-Hinerupe i tō rātau ake ahi kā roa ki Te Kawakawa mai Tawhiti.

Traditional Māori music, or Te Pūoro Māori is composed or performed by Māori, the native people of New Zealand, and includes a wide variety of folk music styles, often integrated with poetry and dance. In addition to these traditions and musical heritage, since the 19th-century European colonisation of New Zealand Māori musicians and performers have adopted and interpreted many of the imported Western musical styles. Captain Cook reported that the Māori sang a song in "semitones" and others reported that the Māori had no vocal music at all, or sang discordantly. In fact the ancient chants, or mōteatea, to which Cook was referring are microtonal and repeat a single melodic line, generally centred on one note, falling away at the end of the last line. Mervyn McLean, in "Traditional Songs of the Maori", first notated the microtonality in a significant number of mōteatea.

The origins and meanings of traditional waiata are explored with Māori Television’s Mōteatea. Mōteatea, Series 5 Episode 5. Performances of traditional waiata with an explanation of the origin of the song. R). Watch Mōteatea, Series 5 Episode 5 online.

Study of the waiata is enhanced by the included recordings of the songs performed by traditional Maori singers.

Kapa haka is the term for Māori performing arts and literally means 'group' (kapa) and 'dance' (haka). Kapa haka is an avenue for Māori people to express and showcase their heritage and cultural Polynesian identity through song and dance. Kapa haka dates back to pre-European times where it developed from all traditional forms of Maori pastimes; haka, mau rākau (Maori weaponry), poi (ball attached to rope or string) and mōteatea (traditional Maori songs)