The music and the word have a very important joint tradition in genres such as the song or the opera, the musical, the zarzuela or the singspiel, the oratorio or the mass. In this cooperation, it is the musical art that predominates in the reception of the viewer, not only because of the barriers often imposed by ignorance of the language, but also because the expressive capacity of his speech is superior: harmony and counterpoint extend the time and allow to say several things at once, and more universally.
These words to the music that the reader has in their hands allow us to overcome the traditional disadvantage of the text against the sound: although they can accompany the listening of the compositions that inspired them -sonataas for piano by Beethoven; partitas, English and French Bach-suites, also admit free reading. In the words of musicologist Antonio Gallego, there a...read more
