Federico García Lorca: música y poesía : la problemática del cante jondo

The topic of my essay is the musical work of Federico García Lorca and the effect ofmusic on poetry. The aim is to present an objective image of García Lorca, themusician, disregarding his reputation as poet and dramatist.In this extract, I discuss the theory of cante jondo. The differences between Lorca’sand later experts’ results are presented from the perspective of modern flamencology.The first disputed aspect is stylistic categorisation – while the poet makes a distinctionbetween cante jondo and cante flamenco, flamencologists consider cante jondo as asubtype of flamenco. The origin of the genre is even more problematic, and, in theabsence of written documents, the debate between the representatives of theAndalusian and the gypsy origin is still unclosed. Considering the place of origin ofcante jondo Lorca did not state his opinion, therefore, based on some references, I tryto clarify if he shared his teacher’s, Manuel de Falla’s opinion, which is different fromwhat experts claim today.Only part of the analysis of Poema del cante jondo is published here, but after thein-depth examination of the volume it can be stated that despite the disputability ofhis theory, the poet could recreate the emotions and thoughtfulness of “deep song”.