Siete Canciones sobre poesías de Federico Garcia Lorca (1964)
para voz y pianoforte – Por Maurice Allard
para voz y pianoforte – Por Maurice Allard
The composition of Siete Canciones sobre
poesias de Federico Garcia Lorca came in response to a request by
Maurice Allard. The poems concern love, death, and the guitar. There are
many rich images in these texts, such as the guitar weaving a net like a
tarantula, the cups of dawn breaking, the six guitar strings as six
dancing maidens, a hundred commemorative crosses. Each poem is stark and
intense and is matched in these qualities by the settings. Much of the
harmonic material comes from the tuning of the guitar, EADGBE, and two
interlocking fifths, EB and FC… The Harmony is either open or dissonant.
The rhythm in the voice and in the accompaniment is quite free. The
vocal style leans toward the declamatory, although there are moments of
great melodic beauty in many of the songs.C. Immel