Zapisi ženskog pjevanja koji su klapskih obilježja
Notations of Women’s Singing with “Klapa” Characteristics

Summary/Abstract: This paper includes records of Dalmatian close-harmony singing referred to as klapa from the end of the 19th and the beginning of 20th century that testify that they were also sang by women. There are two important sources: the ethno-musicological study by LudvÍk Kuba (1898–1899) and Vladoje Bersa’s collection (1944). In the song records collected by LudvÍk Kuba, we find two important indicators for this paper. The first one is the existence of close-harmony songs – songs with klapa characteristics – and they were performed by women. The second is that the majority of these songs are of polyphonic type (mostly in two and three voices). In Bersa’s collection out of 477 songs 34 of them have female text. For the purpose of this paper, we have selected the songs that suggest close-harmony singing with the form and movement of the melody, and are performed by women. Almost all songs in this collection were recorded in monophony

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