Gerardo Diego's Creation Myth of Music: Fábula de Equis Y Zeda

By Judith Stallings-Ward

Book Overview

Since its publication nearly eight decades ago, the consensus among scholars about F?bula de Equis y Zeda, by the Spanish poet Gerardo Diego (1896-1987) remains unchanged: F?bula is an enigmatic avant-garde curiosity. It seems to rob the reader of the reason necessary to interpret it, even as it lures him or her ineluctably to the task; nevertheless, the present study makes the case that this work is, in fact, not inaccessible, and that what the anhelante arquitecto, intended with his masterpiece was a creation myth that explains the evolution of music in his day. This monograph unlocks the fullness of the poem s meaning sourced in music's mythical consciousness and expressed in a poetic idiom that replicates aesthetic concepts and cubist strategies of form embraced by the neoclassical composers Bartok, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032238682
• ISBN13: 9781032238685
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages