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T1 Las canciones para voz y piano de Jesús Legido: un análisis poético-musical
A1 Alfageme Borge, Irene
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Escuela de Doctorado
K1 Música - España - Siglo XX
K1 Legido, Jesús
K1 Spanish music
K1 Música española
K1 6203.06 Música, Musicología
AB Jesús Legido (1943), one of the most renowned Spanish composers of his generation, has written 116 songs for voice and piano organized in 28 cycles, which show the outstanding place that this musical genre occupies in his work. This doctoral thesis studies his vocal music repertoire as regards the professional career, the thinking, the aesthetics and the language of the composer from Valladolid, as well as the possible emotions and meanings transmitted through his songs, all intimately linked to his reads and his personal experiences. The analysed cycles have been selected according to the themes in the poems, since the texts in his songs are of utmost importance for Legido. The composer seeks to communicate what goes beyond the material and real, with remarkable qualities such as intimacy, concentration, reflection or psychological insight, within four fundamental thematic pillars: roots, death, love and life.               A common background is observed in the eight selected cycles, characterized by the importance of the communicability of art, in which the text is a generating element of his songs, the piano part has a unifying function of the piece and the vocality is intimately linked to the prosody of the text. References to Schumann’s or Granados' romantic music, to Debussy's impressionism, and to Spanish composers such as Montsalvatge, Mompou and García Abril are all together present in Legido’s music. His musical language is faithful to his principles, in the same way that his aesthetic preferences are fundamental for the choice of the poems in his songs, in which his personal taste prevails. The texts show the composer's interest in dull, melancholic, nostalgic and, at the same time, passionate and luminous themes. The interrelation between text and music proves to be an essential aspect for Legido, and the structure of the songs is closely related to the distribution of the verses and the semantic content of the poems. The relevance of Legido in Spanish art song lies in the impulse that he has given to the genre since the last third of the 20th century: he has explored the piano and vocal possibilities with a personal language, within moderate compositional margins, which is based on the respect for the poetic text and on its communicative and expressive capacity.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/60747
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/60747
LA spa
NO Escuela de Doctorado
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-may-2024