Week 2: A search for identity

Question 1

First record label in New Zealand

Answer 1

Kiwi Records

Question 2

Details about Aotearoa Overture

Answer 2

Douglas Lilburn, programmatic (represents landscape), long melodic lines, spaciousness with instrumentation (high against low), twitchy rhythms, wrote for NZ centenery (100 yrs since independence)

Question 3

The century when New Zealand classical music was developed

Answer 3

20th century

Question 4

What Lilburn argued in “A Search for Tradition”

Answer 4

New Zealand needs its own folk music tradition