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Richard Moyle field research papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2021/08
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises field notes, correspondence, research paper proofs, transcriptions of songs and chants, maps and island histories relating to the ethnography and ethnomusicology of Samoa, Cook Islands, Lau, Tonga, Niue and Hawaii. The collection also includes the transcriptions and translations of folk tales and a collection of photographs, negatives and film footage taken by Moyle during his fieldwork, and a small amount of collected ephemera. The field notebooks contain indexes to...
Dates:
1966 - 1985
Richard Moyle Lau Islands recordings
Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2022/102
Scope and Contents
Collection comprises 17 audio field recordings and 4 radio dubbings of music and oral histories from the Lau Islands in Fiji, part of a preliminary analysis of Lau music, in particular of the song types found on Lakeba and Vanua Balavu. The field work for this study was carried out at Lakeba from June 14 to July 1, 1977, in Tubou, Levuka, Waciwaci, Yadrana, Vakanō, and Nasaqalau villages, and at Vanua Balavu from July 2-11 in Avea, Mavana, Mualevu, Muamua, Malaka, Sawana and Uruone villages....
Dates:
1977
Richard Moyle Northern Cook Islands music survey recordings
Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2022/105
Dates:
1985
Richard Moyle Samoa recordings
Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2022/54
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises a combination of field recordings, broadcast recordings, wax cylinder recording copies, transcripts and commercial releases made between 1966-1983.
Transcripts were supplied by the performers themselves or by fellow villagers. Further information, and original transcripts are available at Special Collections in the 'Richard Moyle field research papers' collection.
Dates:
1910 - 1983
Richard Moyle survey of traditional music of Niue recordings
Collection
Identifier: AMPS 2022/104
Scope and Contents
Material collected as part of a pilot study for the project, "A Territorial Survey of Oceanic Music", funded jointly by UNESCO, The Institute for Polynesian Studies (Hawai'i) and the University of Auckland. Recordings were made by Richard Moyle of the University of Auckland and Fifita Talagi, the Cultural Projects Coordinator of Niue, from September-October 1984 in Niue, followed by recordings made by Richard Moyle and Dorothy Puheketama in Auckland, New Zealand for the final month of the...
Dates:
1984
Samoan popular songs collected by Brother Herman Seringer and transcribed by Richard Moyle.
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-Archives-2014/14
Scope and Contents
Transcription of 184 Samoan popular songs originally collected by Brother Herman while under house arrest in Pago Pago as an enemy alien, 1940-1945. The arrival of American military forces and the country’s first radio station influenced local musical and poetic styles, and local performers were soon recording their own compositions reflecting the new influences. Herman used his enforced confinement to write down the lyrics of these songs as they were broadcast, including many original...
Dates:
1967 - 1967
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