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plaintive reminiscence and noAv in n riotous honhommie, a rollicking 

 love of the sensuous, and in a style of delivery and vocal technique 

 which demands a voluptuous throatiness, and which must be heard 

 to be appreciated. 



The foreign influence has repressed and well-nigh driven from the 

 field the monotonous fluctuations of the i'i, has lifted the starveling 

 melodies of Hawaii out of the old ruts and enriched them with new 

 notes, thus giving them a spring and elan that appeal alike to the 

 cultivated ear.and to the popular taste of the da3^ It has, moreover, 

 tapped the springs of folk-song that lay hidden in the Hawaiian na- 

 ture. This same influence has also caused to germinate a Hawaiian 

 appreciation of harmony and has endowed its music with new chords, 

 the tonic and dominant, as well as with those of the subdominant and 

 various minor chords. 



The persistence of the Hawaiian quality is, however, most apparent 

 in the language and imagery of the song-poetry. This will be seen 

 in the text of the various mele and oli now to be given. Every mu- 

 sician will also note for himself the peculiar intervals and shadings 

 of these melodies as Avell as the odd effects produced by rhythmic 

 syncopation. 



The songs must speak for themselves. The first song to be given, 

 though dating from no longer ago than about the sixth decade of the 

 last century, has already scattered its wind-borne seed and reproduced 

 its kind in many variants, after the manner of other folklore. This 

 love-lyric represents a type, very popular in Hawaii, that has con- 

 tinued to grow more and more personal and subjective in contrast 

 with the objective epic style of the earliest Hawaiian mele. 



IX — Song, Poll Anuanu 



Arranged by Mrs. Yarndley 



