Post #565343 by Phillip Roberts on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 8:02 PM

Aloha,

As you know, I am fond of collecting paper and old books. I occasionally find something that I wouldn't normally look at...

The Music Hour - Hawaiian Edition Book 4 (1929)

From the Hawaiian Songbooks Bibliography webpage...
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McCONATHY et al 4 1929
McConathy, Osbourne, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge and Mabel E. Bray. The Music Hour: Fourth Book (Hawaiian edition compiled by the Sub-committee of the Elementary Curriculum Committee, Dorothy M. Kahananui, exec. ed.). New York: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929. *

This particular edition was withdrawn June 20, 1944 from "Thomas Jefferson school" here in the islands.

Most of the songs are the standards that you might expect in any songbook of the time... The Star Spangled Banner, Christmas songs, Hail Columbia, etc... The illustrations range from old photos of personalities, color woodblocks and drawings of famous composers, etc. Pretty boring, really, BUT... The additional pages inserted in the beginning book (and I am going to assume in Volumes 1-3 & 5) are pretty heady stuff that I wouldn't have expected... Pre-hapa haole and very simple tunes... I do not know the artist. Here's a list...

"Water of Life"

"Be a Menehune"
"The Taro"
"Only One Mouth" (Korean folk song)
"Shower Trees"
"Pound the Tapa"

"The Sampan"
"Hawaiian Pearls"
"Kimigayo""Kukui Trees"
"The Caveman's Drum"
"The Birds of Kane"

"Kauiki""Cup of Gold"
"Ginger Blossoms"
"The Coconut"
Nice image!
"The Glass-bottomed Boat"
"Mele Kalikimaka"
"The Ginaca" (Creative work for a pineapple project at the Waihee School. The ginaca is a peeling and coring machine used in the cannery.)
and "New Year's Day in Hawaii."

Released as a textbook, I found it interesting in it's portrayal of Tiki in the Pre-Tiki age as used in Hawaiian classrooms. I really didn't know where to put this (Music, collecting, etc...) so I put it in the General forum so more people could see it. I'd be curious to see other volumes.

Comments?

Waikiki Tiki; Art, History, and Photographs.
Available now from Bess Press Hawaii.

[ Edited by: Phillip Roberts 2010-11-16 20:04 ]