Mata-kantiga

Mata-kantiga is a Malay genre of music of Portuguese origin, very similar to other Portuguese folk music, like the Desgarrada, to Repente, Cururu and Trova.
Cultivated mainly in the area of Malacca, it's a type of song where a man and a woman change improvised verses, divided generally in three types: romantic, mock and miscellaneous.
In the old days, some couples participated in sung duels and each partner used different verses mata-kantiga to seduce or to mock the other while the remaining hearing audience danced another sort of Malay music, also of Portuguese origin, called Branyo.
Mata-kantiga was accompanied by the violin, rebana and drum. Currently in disuse, its last great exponent was the singer and poet Rosil de Costa, deceased in 1986.
A very similar sort of music genre, also of Portuguese influence and from the same region, called Dondang Sayang predominates nowadays.