| William Mariner, John Martin - 1817 - 540 sider
...their lovers or their friends, or to superior chiefs. The following song is very often sung by them, or, to speak perhaps more correctly, is given in a...that love and war seldom form the subjects of their songs, but mostly scenery and moral reflections. SONG. Whilst we were talking of Vavdoo tooa Lico,... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1827 - 722 sider
...their lovers or their friends, or to superior chiefs. The following song is very often sung by them, or, to speak perhaps more correctly, is given in a...measure, although some of their songs have both. It ia perhaps a curious circumstance that love and war seldom form the subjects of their poetical compositions,... | |
| Carl Engel - 1866 - 462 sider
...SONG OF THE TONGA ISLANDERS. This song, Mariner says, " is very often sung by the Tonga Islanders, or, to speak perhaps more correctly, is given in a...measure, although some of their songs have both." WHILST we were talking of Vavaoo tooa Lico, the women said to us : Let us repair to the back of the... | |
| Carl Engel - 1866 - 564 sider
...SONG OP THE TONGA ISLANDERS. This song. Mariner says, " is very often sung by the Tonga Islanders, or, to speak perhaps more correctly, is given in a sort of recitative by either eex, and in the Tonga language has neither rhymes nor regular measure, although some of their songs... | |
| Helen Heffron Roberts - 1926 - 422 sider
...Tongan music Mariner says (102, vol. I, pp. 306-7) : The following song is very often sung by them, or, to speak perhaps' more correctly, is given in a sort of recitative by either sex; and in the Tongan language has neither rhymes nor regular measure, although some of their songs have both. It... | |
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