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  2. Music of Tahiti - Wikipedia

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    One unique quality of Polynesian music is the use of the sustained 6th chord in vocal music, though typically the 6th chord is not used in religious music. Traditional instruments include a conch-shell called the pu and a nose flute called the vivo, as well as numerous kinds of drums made from hollowed-out tree trunks and dog or shark skin.

  3. Music of the Cook Islands - Wikipedia

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    One unique quality of Polynesian music (it has become almost a cliché) is the use of the sustained 6th chord in vocal music, though typically the 6th chord is not used in religious music. Traditional songs and hymns are referred to as imene metua (lit. hymn of the parent/ancestor).

  4. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Augmented sixth chord: 3-8A 4-25 4-27B 0 4 t 0 4 6 t 0 4 7 t: Predominant Diminished chord: Play ...

  5. Sixth chord - Wikipedia

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    The term sixth chord refers to two different kinds of chord, the first in classical music and the second in modern popular music. [1] [2]The original meaning of the term is a chord in first inversion, in other words with its third in the bass and its root a sixth above it.

  6. 6th chord - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; 6th chord

  7. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    The result is most often a major chord, although it can also be a major seventh chord, a sixth, or (rarely) a minor. There are examples of slack key played in standard tuning, but the overwhelming majority of recorded examples use altered tunings. The most common slack-key tuning, called "taro patch," makes a G major chord. Starting from the ...

  8. Augmented sixth chord - Wikipedia

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    The augmented sixth interval is typically between the sixth degree of the minor scale, ♭, and the raised fourth degree, ♯.With standard voice leading, the chord is followed directly or indirectly by some form of the dominant chord, in which both ♭ and ♯ have resolved to the fifth scale degree, .

  9. The Tahitian Choir - Wikipedia

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    The Tahitian Choir is a choral group from the island known as Rapa Iti, one of the Bass Islands in the South Pacific, approximately 1,000 miles southeast of Tahiti.The choir is made up of 126 men and women.