McLean, Mervyn Evan, 1930-
Correspondence
Date: 1954-1988
From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-6717-089
Description: Inward correspondence; includes accompanying material, article on Niuean nose flute by Richard M Moyle and drawings of adzes. Also letter from Jack, possibly Jack Lewin, re public service matters (1956). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Correspondence (R-Z)
Date: 1976
From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference: 85-080-02/02
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
[Programmes and other ephemera relating to Maori concerts, performance competitions, fe...
Date: 1990-1999
Reference: Eph-B-MAORI-CONCERT-1990s
Description: Includes: 1994: Te Toka a Toi; Maori season, International Festival of Arts / Te Atinga; contemporary Maori Visual Arts Exhibition. Shed 1, Wellington Waterfront, 9-19 March [1994]. Purple double-sided flier 1998: Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival :Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival, Trentham Race Course, Upper Hutt City. 20-22 February 1998. Programme (2 copies) Sir Kingi Ihaka Kaumatua Awards and Opening of Toi Maori Aotearoa Exhibition. Pipitea Marae, Thorndon Quay Wellington, 6 March 1998. Draft programme / flier 1999: Presenting Te Whare Korero; Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre; Maui. Te Whaea National Dance and Drama Centre, 14-15 July 1999. Flier Weavers of song; Polynesian music and dance (with CD0, by Mervyn McLean. Auckland University Press, published October 1999. Flier Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Pamphlets and programmes, sizes varying up to 350 mm.
Composers contracts - Miscellaneous
Date: 1973-1978
From: Price Milburn Music : Records
Reference: 93-363-04/19
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Correspondence relating to Penguin Book Of New Zealand Verse (1 of 2)
Date: 1980-1982
From: Wedde, Ian Curtis, 1946- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11624-105
Description: Comprises inwards correspondence and copies of outwards correspondence relating to the publication of the 1985 Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse. Names selectively indexed. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript
Kaitiaki/Guardians
Date: 2003-2010
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11115-141
Description: Notes, articles, correspondence and minutes relating to Binney's role as Guardian/Kaitiaki to the Alexander Turnbull Library, 2003-2009. Also includes material from her role as member of Arts Council of New Zealand, 2009-2010 Quantity: 1 box(es).
Archive of Maori and Pacific Music
Date: 1989
From: Binney, Judith Te Tomairangi o te Aroha (Dame), 1940-2011: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12057-008
Description: Typescript letter on University of Auckland letterhead, from Mervyn McLean, Head of Archive of Maori and Pacific Music, University to Auckland, dated 8 August 1989, addressed to depositors in Anthropology Department of the university. Includes appended list of items deposited by Judith Binney, and a page of explanation of Deposit Agreement, including rights. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 4 pages. Physical Description: Typescripts on printed letterhead
Photocopied pages manuscripts and articles
Date: 1981-1982
From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-12157-061
Description: Comprises photocopied pages from a Māori manuscript, possibly from the John McGregor Collection (NZMMSS 15) relating to Māori waiata (mōteatea). Also articles relating to the whare tapere by Elsdon Best, and articles by Mervyn McLean relating to Māori music including his writings about the 'rule of eight'. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies Processing information: From box 18 in the donor's list.
Annotated copy of 'Traditional songs of the Māori'
Date: 1985
From: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006: Collection
By: Orbell, Margaret Rose, 1934-2006
Reference: MSX-10103
Description: Hardcover annotated copy of the book 'Traditional songs of the Māori [complied by Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell]. Contains fifty waiata of various styles and forms, collected from tribes across Aotearoa. Waiata forms described include poi, pātere, pao, mōteatea, waiata-ā-ringa, waiata kaioraora, amongst others. The waiata are written in te reo Māori with English translations. Musical scores accomnpany each waiata. Annotated handwritten notations in pencil appear on a small number of the book's pages. Title transcribed from item. Part of the Archive of New Zealand Music. Quantity: 1 Monograph(s). Physical Description: Hardcover monograph, 324 pages, 25 x 37 cm.
Recording of music from Archive of Māori and Pacific Music, University of Auckland
Date: December 1983
From: Cree Brown, Christopher, 1953- : Music scores and papers
By: Hughes, Kino, 1891-1986; McLean, Mervyn Evan, 1930-
Reference: MST5-2857
Description: Sound recording of selected music from the Archive of Māori and Pacific Music, University of Auckland, compiled by Professor Mervyn McLean for filmmaker Mike Sukolski. Sound recording includes 'Ka kotahi ti Ka rua ti', recorded 29 May 1972 by Kino Hughes, and 'Karakia', 'Mouti Mouti', and flute music (kōauau). Quantity: 1 5" reel(s). Processing information: Sound recording relates to accompanying letter written 1 December 1983 by Professor Mervyn McLean, described at MS-Papers-12096.
Correspondence from Professor Mervyn McLean to Mike Sukolski
Date: 1 December 1983
From: Cree Brown, Christopher, 1953- : Music scores and papers
Reference: MS-Papers-12096
Description: Letter from Mervyn McLean, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland, to filmmaker Mike Sukolski, relating to potentially suitable music to include in the soundtrack Sukolski's documentary film, 'Te Kaika the Māori in 14th century Otago'. Also includes a reproduction of lyrics in te reo Māori for 'Mouti Mouti', 'Tupeke Koka', and 'E Kio E'. Letter references Kino Hughes. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Processing information: The letter was accompanied by a five-inch reel mangetic tape recording of five items from the Archive of Māori and Pacific Music (University of Auckland), which has been described separately as MST5-2857.
Inward correspondence - Larsen to Mowatt
Date: 1936-1971
From: Beaglehole, Timothy Holmes, 1933-2015: Papers of John Cawte Beaglehole and his family
Reference: MS-Papers-11535-165
Description: Contains letters from Malcolm Letts, S Linne, Sydney Leader, Philip E Lilienthal, Grace Lawrence, H R Larsen, David Lawson and Douglas Lilburn; Alan Moorehead, Denis McLean (?), Phyllis Mander-Jones, Hector MacNeill, R C Maclaurin, T A McCormack, Suzanne McConnaughey, Charlie M (?), David Mackay, J D McGilvary, Mervyn McLean, R E McKechnie, Margaret Mackenzie, Ivison S Macadam, J A R Miles, Lorna McPhee and C L Mowat (relating to the New Cambridge Modern History, volume XII). Quantity: 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts
RILM abstracts and correspondence
Date: 1982-1993
From: Freed, Dorothy Whitson, 1919-2000 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6809-14
Description: Correspondence with authors and librarians re RILM abstracts; identified persons entered under Name Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Price Milburn Music Ltd :Photographs of young recorder players and musicians from Oceania
Date: 198?
By: Price Milburn Music Ltd; Crowe, Peter Russell, 1932-2004
Reference: PAColl-3465
Description: Photographs relating to publications of Price Milburn Music Ltd; children playing recorders, from Steve Rosenberg's recorder instruction books; Pacific Island musicians by photographer Peter Crowe, possibly from "Music in Oceania" by Mervyn McLean Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).
Papers relating to various publications
Date: [1970-1989?]
From: Price Milburn Music : Records
Reference: 93-363-09
Description: Contents consist of miscellaneous correspondence, papers relating to the Catholic Hymnal, Mervyn McLean's 'Music of Oceania', Diana Poulton's Dowland songs; Steve Rosenberg's Recorder playing 1 and 2, The Duet book, Recorder and guitar book; Mark Walton's 'Great news for clarinet players'; John Wells' 'Bumblebee stew'; miscellaneous papers, Requests for copyright control information; newsclipping, blank PMM agreement forms. Other Titles - Music of Oceania / by Mervyn McLean Other Titles - Recorder playing 1 / by Steve Rosenberg Other Titles - Recorder playing 2 / by Steve Rosenberg Other Titles - Dowland songs / ed by Diana Poulton Other Titles - Bumblebee stew / by John Wells Arrangement: Unsorted within folders Quantity: 1 box(es). Physical Description: Holographs (some photocopies), mss, typescripts and printed matter Transfers: To Photographic Archive - Photos by Peter Crowe to go on cover (?) of 'Music in Oceania' - to PHA 8 Mar 1994 - To Photographic Archive - Photos for Steve Rosenberg's ' Recorder playing 2' - to PHA 8 Mar 1994..
Correspondence (J-Z)
Date: [1978]
From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection
Reference: 85-080-02/08
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
McLean document
Date: 2003
From: Thomas, Allan, 1942-2010 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9892-36
Description: In the description of the contents of this folder Allan Thomas wrote (18 July 2010): [This document] is deposited for the historical interest it has for the taonga puoro revival, and the growth and development of ethnomusicology and academic study - showing the resistance to new ideas in the revival of traditional instruments. It comprises three documents: 1. Mervyn McLean's complaint about the revival of taonga puoro sent to the American Journal of Ethnomusicology, 2 Question from editor [of the Journal] to Allan Thomas about the [complaint] 3. Reply from Allan Thomas with `draft' response (if complaint was to have been published)' Includes brief handwritten notes by Allan Thomas about former methods (in ethnomusicology) for collecting music recordings Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts with MS annotations
McLean, [Mervyn] : Oceania - an introduction; recorded examples 1-20
Date: [1975?]
From: Price Milburn Music : Records
Reference: MST5-1144
Description: Quantity: 1 5" reel(s).
11 Sound recording
Date: [1975?]
From: Price Milburn Music : Records
Reference: Series-0112
Description: Tape of talk(?) by Mervyn McLean - Oceania; an introduction Quantity: 1 audiotape(s).
Correspondence - M
Date: 1966-1985
From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5292-042
Description: Inward and outward letters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter