FLAMENCO AND POETRY

09 Mar FLAMENCO AND POETRY

FLAMENCO ART IN OUR VOICE OF POETS

1. Introduction

The flamenco is well-matched, how could it be otherwise, with the literary work, especially poetry. Harmony and rhythm are the essence of both, and then become his musicality and beauty.

Through the symbiosis of music and poetry that achieves flamenco, Andalusian village-and manifestly she expressed their deepest feelings: their joys and sorrows, laughter and tears, their loves and hates, their work and leisure, their perception of what is right and wrong, their world views of life and death … The songs of the Andalusian people, coming from one of its most distinguished poets, are also the history of Andalusia.

2. Parties and content

This poetic-musical concert consists of two distinct parts though united by the theme of music and poetry. A part of lecture and poetry reading in which it will be found to students in schools, the importance of knowledge of the rules that define the Spanish league to suit flamenco music.

And a second part in which a flamenco concert with poems of our Andalusian poets, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Antonio Machado and Federico Garcia Lorca will be offered.

Flamenco in Taos

Flamenco in Taos

1. Canto as read,

Masterclass spoken voice to singing voice.

1. The voice of the poets Verses Light and Water .

It is an artistic performance in which is expressed by flamenco music Bridan us the opportunity topics chosen poems.

This part is dedicated to poets of XX and XXI century such as Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernandez, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, etc. Several poems by different authors have been set to music and performed in various clubs of flamenco: soleares, seguidillas, tangos, bulerías, joys, Malaga, granainas, thongs, romances, tonás …

The proposed activity can be about the aforementioned authors, but mainly focus on the three Andalusian poets: Juan Ramon Jimenez, Antonio Machado and Federico Garcia Lorca.

We intend with this show help the knowledge of poetic and symbolic work of these three great poets and universal Andalusian, closely linked to his life and work to flamenco.

His poetic rhythms fit from its own metrics and musicality in flamenco rhythms and the contents of the letters will recover all the resources of flamenco.

That’s why the verses of Juan Ramón be “fandangos” of their land, so dear to him, or “thongs” in the poem “The final journey.”

Antonio Machado will serve in an exemplary way to transmit sing bulerías, Colombian, vidalita, etc., since the letters chosen suggest a musical performance in this regard.

Federico G. Lorca, explore the multiple range of his lyrics with a performance of their classic or the most innovative “Poet in New York” poems.

Revitalize their letters, remembering his legacy and musically innovative musical record of them has been done before it is part of the desire and will of this innovative show in which the sticks are also explained, musical harmonies, letters each poems: the water and the light of these three poets.

Poems of Antonio Machado:

• Crime. Dedicated to Lorca, Seguidillas and complete.
• Parable. Bulerías
• Campos de Castilla.
• My childhood.

Poems of Juan Ramon Jimenez:

• Fandangos de Huelva.

• The final journey.

• I am not. Flamenco Bolero.

Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca :

• Romance of the black sorrow. Solea por Bulerías.
• Beautiful and air. Cantiñas.
• Storks music and romance of the moon, moon.
• They are of Negros in Cuba.
• Seguidillas and complete.

In my music curriculum I have adapted to flamenco Miguel Hernández different poems, among them The Yuntero child, soleares; Aceituneros for joy; Elegy to Ramón Sijé, malagueñas;Pastoral, tientos; etc. Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the poem “In peace walk” adapted at the helm.

3. Goals

The fundamental aim of this project is to spread our culture as essential pillars using two, such as poetry and flamenco.

The objectives to achieve with this activity are:

• Understand that the musicality of the Castilian language has conditioned the creation of flamenco music.
• Understanding the musicality and rhythm of the poems that serve as letters singing, mastering the art of reading and declamation
• Appreciate flamenco as one of the most unique features of the cultural heritage of Andalusia, valuing it as one of the greatest exponents of Andalusian cultural identity.
• Casar different styles of flamenco melodic variety of poems.

4. Structure activity

The literary-musical activity will last approximately an hour and a quarter. The structure of it is organized in a unitary manner by integrating image, sound, dancing and reading.

1. A biographical audiovisual poet
2. Reading poems
3. Musical concert (Flemish) selected poems

The audiovisual places each poet in its historical context and shows the life and work of each poet. The show introduces us to work through selected poems.

Flamenco and romantic art of emotions and feelings expressed through dance, guitar playing and singing. In our case, the musical concert will help us to deepen and poems drawn from the ideas, emotions and feelings they convey their authors.