The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Plainchant tradition · 9th century–

Catholic mission in the Cordillera brings Latin liturgy and hymnody into Ifugao public life beside hudhud harvest and wake epic.

Influence

Ifugao hudhud

tradition · prehistoric–

Also called hudhud chants, Ifugao epic chant

Ifugao narrative chant of northern Luzon: harvest, funeral, and wake epics led by a woman (munhaw-e) with a responding chorus. It later hears mission liturgy (Plainchant) at low strength beside the epic job. Empty extra Given is historically checked (lineage: closed). Formosan multipart song leftover as a refused sounding parent. Polynesian chant leftover as a different ocean family, not a parent or child. Cordillera gangsa leftover as a neighbor kit, not this chant. UNESCO leftover as recognition, not a child.

Listen

  1. Hudhud hi Aliguyon Ifugao hudhud tradition (traditional) YouTube
  2. Hudhud (harvest / funeral chant) Ifugao tradition (traditional) YouTube

Passed on

This practice did not pass a named later genre.

Plainchant → Ifugao hudhud

function and contextperformance practicestrength: lowwell documented1850–1950liturgyoral

Mechanism

Catholic mission in the Cordillera brings Latin liturgy and hymnody into Ifugao public life beside hudhud harvest and wake epic. Strength low. Hudhud remains unaccompanied narrative chant; the hop is documented later incoming contact, not a recoding of hudhud as Gregorian. UNESCO listing leftover as recognition, not a child.

Evidence

Nineteenth–twentieth-century Catholic establishment among Ifugao; Grove on Philippine mission music; hudhud’s continued epic job (UNESCO).

Debate

Whether parallel church singing is influence on the epic node. Unlike metrical psalmody himene, no new hybrid genre is named here. The edge records that Ifugao singers heard mission liturgy, at low strength, rather than leaving the node as an island without colonial sound.

Mediators

institution: Catholic missions in Ifugao