ABSTRACT
The author presents comparative research about specific traditional homophonic singing and complementary popular vocal-instrumental music from three different Mediterranean regions. These include cori d’ osteria, singing from the Quattro Province area in the northwestern Apennines, and some older types of popular music of northern Italy; traditional singing of the Greek Ionian Islands (kantades, arietes, and arekia); and Dalmatian klapa singing from Croatia. In the field of musical (sound) structure and aesthetics, all these musical expressions are quite similar; in many aspects, they are almost identical, and, correspondingly, they are mutually akin in various social and cultural elements. But, reflecting three distant countries, their lyrics are in different languages.
