Original upload date: Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:08:37 GMT
El Polifemo de Oro was inspired by Garcia Lorca's poetic references to the guitar, particularly in the two poems Adivinanza de la Guitarra and Las Seis Cuerdas. Lorca attributes to the guitar occult p
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owers, and returns again and again in his poems to the image of its strings spread out like the arms of Polyphemus, or the "great star" of a tarantula's web, waiting to trap our sighing souls within its "black wooden cistern".
RSB
Enigma of the Guitar
At the round
Crossways,
Six maidens
Dance.
Three of flesh
And three of silver.
Yesterday's dreams haunted them,
But they are held embraced
By a Golden Polyphemus -
The guitar.
The Six Strings
The guitar
Makes dreams weep.
The sob of lost
Souls,
Escape from its round
Mouth.
And like the tarantula,
It weaves a great star
To trap the sighs,
Which float in its black
Wooden cistern.
The sheet music for El Polifemo de oro is publishes by Schott and can be purchased in the USA here:
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/5957626
or here in Europe:
https://www.eurosheetmusic.com/more.asp?ref=52411
