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Vocal architecture features extended-pitch-sustain, high-register projection (the kaikaranga voice carrying across a wide outdoor distance), characteristic pitch-bend ornament, and a strikingly non-strophic open-ended duration determined by ceremonial context. Following the karanga, the broader pōwhiri sequence proceeds through whaikōrero (formal oratory by senior men, the kaikōrero), waiata (sung songs accompanying or responding to the oratory), and finally hongi (forehead-and-nose-pressing ritual greeting). The pūtātara conch-shell trumpet sometimes signals the opening of the karanga sequence. Performance contexts include marae-welcome of guests, tangihanga funerals, school and parliament openings, and any other formal-ceremonial gathering at a marae. Mervyn McLean's Maori Music (Auckland University Press 1996) is the principal English-language scholarly documentation. Distinguished from Māori waiata sung-song by karanga's extended-pitch-glide ceremonial-call (vs strophic-melodic-song) configuration; distinguished from Tongan lakalaka by karanga's women-only call-and-response (vs Tongan large-group choreographed-poetry) functional framework.", "recipe": "classic Oceanian mid-1990s māori karanga and pōwhiri ritual call, ritual Devotional, indigenous branch, vocal drone modal skolt sámi leuʹdd northern sámi luohti yoik. vocal fry, breath veiled tone, wide pitch sway, interlocked note trading. conch shell mouthpiece canonical aotearoa signaling karanga powhiri ceremonial calling canonical Maori putatara. marae forecourt. 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