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Te ara puoro : a journey into the world of Māori music / Richard Nunns ; with Allan Thomas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Nelson, New Zealand : Craig Potton Publishing, 2014Description: 176 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 sound disc (12 cm)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781877517785
Other title:
  • Journey into the world of Māori music
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 784.1908999442 23
Contents:
1. Early beginnings -- 2. Finding a voice -- 3. Why Māori played instruments -- 4. Taonga Puoro, the instruments -- 5. Developing an improvisational style -- 6. The classical journal.
Summary: Te Ara Puoro tells the story of Richard Nunn's remarkable journey; of how fragments of knowledge given by elders were pieced together through countless presentations and performances on marae the length and breadth of the country; of how the instruments were re-created and developed; and of how he subsequently mastered their playing. The book gathers together an enormous amount of the current knowledge about taonga puoro, and will undoubtedly be the most important written resource in existence on the subject. -- Provided by publisher.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 784.1908999442 NUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A529104B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 784.1908999442 NUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A529105B

1. Early beginnings -- 2. Finding a voice -- 3. Why Māori played instruments -- 4. Taonga Puoro, the instruments -- 5. Developing an improvisational style -- 6. The classical journal.

Te Ara Puoro tells the story of Richard Nunn's remarkable journey; of how fragments of knowledge given by elders were pieced together through countless presentations and performances on marae the length and breadth of the country; of how the instruments were re-created and developed; and of how he subsequently mastered their playing. The book gathers together an enormous amount of the current knowledge about taonga puoro, and will undoubtedly be the most important written resource in existence on the subject. -- Provided by publisher.

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