{"id":78555,"date":"2021-05-26T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=78555"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:42:35","slug":"the-songs-of-liliuokalani-queen-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/the-songs-of-liliuokalani-queen-of-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Songs of Lili\u2018uokalani, Queen of Hawai\u2018i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lili\u2018uokalani\u00a0(1838-1917)\u00a0was\u00a0the Queen\u00a0Regnant\u00a0of\u00a0Hawai\u2018i from 1891-1893, and was the nation\u2019s last monarch.\u00a0During her reign, she\u00a0resisted the\u00a0annexation of\u00a0Hawai\u2018i\u00a0by the United States, and after the coup that deposed her, she remained dedicated to the interests of\u00a0the\u00a0Hawaiian\u00a0people.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A trained singer, choir director and organist,\u00a0Lili\u2018uokalani\u00a0composed\u00a0more\u00a0than 150\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mele<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0Hawaiian songs and chants.\u00a0Her\u00a0l<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">egacy of\u00a0music\u00a0remains greatly loved: she is one of the most-performed composers among Hawaiian musicians.\u00a0The Queen\u2019s songs\u00a0transcend genre\u00a0and are constantly reinterpreted, whether it be in popular\u00a0or folk\u00a0styles, as accompaniment to\u00a0Hawaiian dance,\u00a0in\u00a0hymnlike choral arrangements,\u00a0or as\u00a0songs with piano.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lili\u2018uokalani\u00a0(1838-1917)\u00a0was\u00a0the Queen\u00a0Regnant\u00a0of\u00a0Hawai\u2018i from 1891-1893, and was the nation\u2019s last monarch.\u00a0During her reign, she\u00a0resisted the\u00a0annexation of\u00a0Hawai\u2018i\u00a0by the United States, and after the coup that deposed her, she remained dedicated to the interests of\u00a0the\u00a0Hawaiian\u00a0people.\u00a0\u00a0 A trained singer, choir director and organist,\u00a0Lili\u2018uokalani\u00a0composed\u00a0more\u00a0than 150\u00a0mele,\u00a0Hawaiian songs and chants.\u00a0Her\u00a0legacy of\u00a0music\u00a0remains greatly loved: she is one of the most-performed composers among Hawaiian &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":78566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:35:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}