# Music of French Polynesia

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The **music of [French Polynesia](/source/French_Polynesia)** came to the forefront of the [world music](/source/World_music) scene in 1992, with the release of [The Tahitian Choir](/source/The_Tahitian_Choir)'s recordings of unaccompanied vocal Christian music called [himene tārava](/source/Himene_tarava), recorded by French musicologist [Pascal Nabet-Meyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pascal_Nabet-Meyer&action=edit&redlink=1). This form of singing is common in French Polynesia and the [Cook Islands](/source/Cook_Islands), and is distinguished by a unique drop in pitch at the end of the phrases, which is a characteristic formed by several different voices; it is also accompanied by steady grunting of staccato, nonsensical syllables.

## See also

- [Tahitian Drumming](/source/Tahitian_Drumming)

- [Tahitian music](/source/Tahitian_music)

## References

- Linkels, Ad. "The Real Music of Paradise". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), *World Music, Vol. 2: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific*, pp 218–229. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-85828-636-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85828-636-0)

## External links

- (in French) [Audio clips: Traditional music of French Polynesia.](http://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/musinfo_ph.php?what=pays=Polyn%E9sie%20fran%E7aise&debut=0&bool=AND) [Musée d'ethnographie de Genève](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_d'ethnographie_de_Gen%C3%A8ve). Accessed November 25, 2010.

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