I haven't been following this thread too carefully but when I read the last post I thought of Alfred Rose's song about the 'ladainha' in Konkani and started to google. The following post of Eugene Correa is one of the entries that cropped up and you can follow up if you feel like.
http://www.mail-archive.com/goa...@goanet.org/msg05342.html -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal, Moira, Bardez, Goa, India E pinto...@gmail.com or ypinto...@yahoo.co.in P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350