PDF of 4-part choral harmonies arranged by J Moss.

Hori Tait Hori Mataiawhea Taiapua Tait (Ngai Tuhoe, Te Arawa) was born at Ruatoki in 1922 to Taiapua Mataiawhea Tait and Violet Waireti Tait (nee Trainor). He married Waitangi Te Maipi and worked in Auckland as a cultural officer for the Maori Affairs Department. He was a poet and a composer of waiata, and he observed that although the compositions were his, “The thoughts and the words in them represent the wisdom and heritage handed down to us from our tupuna.“ Among his works was the waiata Te Piriti, recorded by singer Deane Waratini, the play "Hunga Ho", performed at the South Pacific Arts Festival in New Guinea, music for "The New Zealand Wars" TV series, and the script for the re-enactment of the founding of Rotorua. He was a kaumatua of the Maori Artists and Writers’ Society and died in 1981. Maori songs - Kiwi songs - Home Page made November 2009, modified May 2011, biography enlarged July 2020.