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

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Heard

Falsobordone practice · 1480–1750

The liturgical wing of paghjella hears falsobordone: chordal sacred singing, confraternity office, oral three-voice recoding of a church job.

Influence

Paghjella

tradition · 15th century–

Also called cantu in paghjella, Corsican polyphony

Corsican three-voice male polyphony: a segonda begins and carries the line, u bassu supports, a terza enters last and thickens the chord. Secular and liturgical. It is a tradition, not a leftover “Mediterranean polyphony” bin. The church wing hears Falsobordone. Empty extra Given is historically checked. Riacquistu leftover as continuity of this school, not a child. Festival billing leftover, not Worldbeat. Canto a tenore and Genoese trallalero leftover as siblings, not parents or children. Georgian polyphony leftover as a typological sibling. Voceru and chjam’è rispondi stay other Corsican jobs in prose.

Listen

  1. Paghjella Corsican village tradition YouTube
  2. Cantu in paghjella I Muvrini (traditional repertory) (1980s) YouTube
  3. Liturgical paghjella Corsican confraternity

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Falsobordone → Paghjella

harmonyfunction and contextperformance practicestrength: mediumcontested1500–1900liturgyoral

Mechanism

The liturgical wing of Paghjella hears falsobordone: chordal sacred singing, confraternity office, oral three-voice recoding of a church job. Strength medium, and only that wing. Secular square paghjella is local.

Evidence

UNESCO’s secular-and-liturgical description; confraternity transmission through the office; standard histories that trace Corsican pulifunie to Renaissance falsobordone practice.

Debate

Whether all paghjella is falsobordone. No: the church wing is this hop; shepherd and bar paghjella are not. Do not parent paghjella from Trallalero (later docks). Do not also draw chant or high Renaissance polyphony onto this node.

Mediators

community: Corsican confraternities