Cante jondo gitano
Emotions such as rage, love, betrayal, hate, and death are transformed into interpretative tools that cantaores (singers) use to communicate the essence of the style. 152, conductors and performers can capture examples of how compelling cante jondo is to human emotions. Through Tedesco's choral work, Romancero Gitano, op. Those differences are derived from geographical influences, formal conventions, forms, and characteristics of singing styles. This study will help conductors understand the general differences between cante jondo and Flamenco musical styles. The heart of the cante jondo is contained in three essential elements: 1) themes such as suffering, death, love, betrayal, and hate 2) the guitar instrumentation, and 3) the musical rhythmical structure.
152 for choir and guitar, illustrates the essential characteristics and heart of the cante jondo. He declares that cante jondo songs are "emotionally compared with the authentic blues of the Negroes of the southern United States." 1 The poetry of Lorca, combined with the music of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Romancero Gitano op. Donn Phoren provides a better understanding of the emotive background of cante jondo songs. These songs express the history and landscape of the Andalucían region.
Cante jondo or "deep song" is considered the most serious and profound collection of songs in Flamenco music. The purpose of this study is to provide a conductor's guide to the poetic, historical, and musical structure of the cante jondo. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco used seven texts from Lorca's Poema del Cante Jondo (Deep Song Poems) in his work Romancero Gitano, op. A conductor's guide to the poetical and musical style of the "cante jondo" based in the work of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Romancero Gitano", op.152, A musical setting for choir and guitar with selected poems of Federico Garcia Lorca's "Poema del Cante Jondo"Ĭomposers around the world have found the poetry of Federico Garc√≠a Lorca a source of inspiration for solo and choral works.