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|f_annotation='''OTAHEITE JIG.''' American, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. ''Otaheite'' is the former name for the island of Tahiti, a <span> part of French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous territory of France. Otaheite/Tahiti was topical at the time of Elias Howe's publication of '''Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7''' (1880-1882), for, in June, 1880, the new Taihitian king, Pōmare V, at the urging of the French governor Henri Isidore Chessé, supported by the Tahitian chiefs, | |f_annotation='''OTAHEITE JIG.''' American, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. ''Otaheite'' is the former name for the island of [[Wikipedia:Tahiti]], a <span> part of French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous territory of France. Otaheite/Tahiti was topical at the time of Elias Howe's publication of '''Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7''' (1880-1882), for, in June, 1880, the new Taihitian king, Pōmare V, at the urging of the French governor Henri Isidore Chessé, supported by the Tahitian chiefs, pressured him to abdicate in favor of France. Pōmare V seemed to have little interest in governing but accepted a sinecure as Officer of the Orders of the Legion of Honor and Agricultural Merit of France. The inhabitants of Tahiti lost sovereignty, but gained French citizenship. A decade later the painter Paul Gauguin came to the island to live and paint. </span> | ||
|f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 605. | |f_printed_sources=Elias Howe ('''Musician’s Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7'''), Boston, 1880-1882; p. 605. | ||
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OTAHEITE JIG. American, Jig (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. Otaheite is the former name for the island of Wikipedia:Tahiti, a part of French Polynesia, a semi-autonomous territory of France. Otaheite/Tahiti was topical at the time of Elias Howe's publication of Musician's Omnibus Nos. 6 & 7 (1880-1882), for, in June, 1880, the new Taihitian king, Pōmare V, at the urging of the French governor Henri Isidore Chessé, supported by the Tahitian chiefs, pressured him to abdicate in favor of France. Pōmare V seemed to have little interest in governing but accepted a sinecure as Officer of the Orders of the Legion of Honor and Agricultural Merit of France. The inhabitants of Tahiti lost sovereignty, but gained French citizenship. A decade later the painter Paul Gauguin came to the island to live and paint.
