This volume will present a comprehensive overview of song genres in the Native Hawaiian performance tradition. Approximately thirty-five songs illustrate this spectrum, from "ancient" indigenous expressions that descend from pre-European practices---oli, hula pahu, hula 'ala'apapa, hula 'olapa---to "modern" popular songforms that combine indigenous and western practices---hula ku'i, himeni, mele Hawai'i, hapa haole songs, and contemporary "local" songs. Views from multiple sources are brought together, including songtexts from 19th-century manuscripts and published songsters, authoritative translations, notated scores from published songbooks, and original transcriptions from sound recordings. In some cases, multiple notated scores document ranges of performance practice within individual genres. Complete bibliographic and discographic histories of each song illuminate similarities and differences among the genres in terms of composition and dissemination practices.