Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula Collected and Translatred with Notes and an Account of the HulaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - 288 Seiten |
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Akua alii aloha altar AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN ancient Hawaii BULLETIN 38 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN cantillation dance ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 38 flowers gesture goddess gods hala halau hana hand Haumea Hawaii Hawaiian poetry hele Hiiaka hiki Hilo hula i-lalo iluna instrument island Ka-ú Kahiki kahuna Kama-pua'a Kamehameha Kanaloa Kane Kapo kapu kaua Kauai ki'i Kilauea kilu king Kini Kona Koolau ku'i ku'u kuahu kumu kupua Laka land lani lehua lele literally Lohiau Lono makani malo Maná Maui meaning mele moku Molokai mountain nahele Nana Niihau noho Oahu ocean olapa opua pa-ú pahu pali passion Pele performance pili poem poet pono prayer pule Puna rain shark song tabu tion tone Translation tree utterance verse wa'a wahine Wai-pi'o Wailua Waimea Wakea wind woman word wreath
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Seite 8 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Seite 167 - CHORUS: Thou art the end of my longing, The crown of evening's delight, When I hear the cock blithe crowing, In the middle watch of the night. This way is the path for thee and me, A welcome warm at the end. I waited long for thy coming, And found thee in waft of the breeze. CHORUS.
Seite 12 - ... art, to the refreshment of men's minds. Its view of life was idyllic, and it gave itself to the celebration of those mythical times when gods and goddesses moved on the earth as men and women and when men and women were as gods.
Seite 149 - Their dances have a much nearer resemblance to those of the New Zealanders, than of the Otaheiteans or Friendly Islanders. They are prefaced with a slow, solemn song, in which all the party join, moving their legs, and gently striking their breasts, in a manner, and with attitudes, that are perfectly easy and graceful ; and so far they are the same with...
Seite 8 - In truth, the actors in the hula no longer suit the action to the word. The utterance harks back to the golden age ; the gesture is trumped up by the passion of the hour, or dictated by the master of the hula, to whom the real meaning of the old bards is ofttimes a sealed casket. Whatever indelicacy attaches in modern times to some of the gestures and contortions of the hula dancers, the old-time hula songs ;n large measure were untainted with grossness.
Seite 7 - ... and her compeers. Thus in the cantillations of the old-time hula we find a ready-made anthology that includes every species of composition in the whole range of Hawaiian poetry. This epic of Pele was chiefly a more or less detached series of poems forming a story addressed not to the closet reader, but to the eye and ear and heart of the assembled chiefs and people ; and it was sung. The Hawaiian song, its note of joy par excellence, was the oli ; but it must be noted that in every species of...
Seite 246 - Hitherto shalt thou como and no farther," the low-minded heathen is merely thinking of the shellfish on the shore. As he looks up to the everlasting mountains, girt with clouds and capped with snow, he betrays no emotion. As he climbs a towering cliff, looks down a yawning precipice, or abroad upon a forest of deep ravines, immense rocks, and spiral mountains thrown together in the utmost wildness and confusion by the might of God's volcanoes, he is only thinking of some roots in the wilderness that...
Seite 147 - Keaonaloa. the others were controlled by the fingers. This instrument has been compared to the Italian ocarina. 10. The ili-ili was a noise-instrument pure and simple. It consisted of two pebbles that were held in the hand and smitten together, after the manner of castanets, in time to the music of the voices. (See p. 120.) 11. The niau-kani — singing splinter — was a reed-instrument of a rude sort, made by holding a reed of thin bamboo against a slit cut out in a larger piece of bamboo. This...
Seite 28 - Maori always says te tangata instead of kc kanaka. 10 " The young men and young women who could best illustrate in their persons the grace and beauty of the human form. It was theirs, sometimes while singing^ to move and pose and gesture in the dance; sometimes also to punctuate their song and action with the lighter instruments of music.
Seite 151 - ... father, perhaps the greatest musical theorist of this or any other age, was able to have done it) had written down, in European notes, the concords that these people sung, and if these concords had been such as European ears could tolerate, there would have been no longer doubt of the fact; but, as it is, it would, in my opinion, be a rash judgment to venture to affirm that they did or did not understand counterpoint; and therefore I fear that this curious matter must be considered as still remaining...