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Now Is the Hour (song)
Résumé
"Now Is the Hour" (Pō Atarau) is a popular song from the early 20th century. Often erroneously described as a traditional Māori song, its creation is usually credited to several people, including Clement Scott (music), and Maewa Kaihau and Dorothy Stewart (arrangement and lyrics).
The tune of the song first became known in 1913 when it was published by W.H. Paling and Co as a piano-variations piece in Australia, called "Swiss Cradle Song" and credited to "Clement Scott". Some sources say that after a tour of New Zealand, the British music critic and travel writer Clement Scott wrote the tune to the "Swiss Cradle Song". However, the family members of an Australian, Albert Saunders, have long claimed that the "Clement Scott" who wrote the tune is a pseudonym for Saunders Australian composer Clarence Elkin also claimed to be the writer. Although a court case shortly after Saunders' death was inconclusive as to authorship, his son has provided journalists with handwritten compositions written by Saunders that were subsequently published by W.H. Paling and Co under the name of "Clement Scott". New Zealand journalist Max Cryer concluded in 2020 that: "Scott was really Albert Saunders", and noted that the National Library of Australia credits Saunders as the composer of the song.
The piece consisted of eight variations to the main 16-bar theme. Paling sold 130,000 copies of "Swiss Cradle Song". Māori words were added around 1915 and the tune was slightly changed. It became known as "Po Atarau" and was used as a farewell to Māori soldiers going to the First World War. After this, some white New Zealanders "mistakenly thought [the song was] an old Maori folksong". One claim attributes the first words to two Māori groups of sheep shearers, the Grace and Awatere families, of Tuparoa.
In 1920, Maewa Kaihau (friend to Ramai Hayward) wrote an opening verse in English as "This is the hour..." for her daughter who had become attached to a member of a visiting royal party, who was shortly to leave.
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