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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). Traditional dance is the most prominent art form of the Cook ...

  4. 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.

  5. Tahiti Nui (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song credited to Mila avec L'Orchestre Eddie Lund was the B side on a 78 RPM single with the A side "Ragout pommes de terre" by Teaitu. It was released on Tahiti label cat # 139. [ 6 ] It was released as a 45 RPM single on Viking in 1958, credited to Mila With Eddie Lund And His Tahitians .

  6. Theo Sulpice - Wikipedia

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    From 1989 the Tamure Tahiti ballet expanded to reach a staff of forty dancers, and toured more and more around the world. In 1992 the troupe was renamed Show Tahiti Nui. His hit Tamahine [4] sold 580,000 albums in 1996. [5] Théo Sulpice became a regular on television sets, [6] often invited to Jacques Martin and Michel Drucker. Vahinés and ...

  7. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing, which has been used for centuries, involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, so that strumming across the open strings will then sound a ...

  8. Pagan Love Song - Wikipedia

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    Pagan Love Song is a 1950 American romantic musical film released by MGM and starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel. Set in Tahiti , it was based on the novel Tahiti Landfall by William S. Stone. It was the first major role for Rita Moreno (then 19) and her third film overall.

  9. 6th chord - Wikipedia

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