Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de Espana ( Nights in the Gardens of Spain) (1915)Ī true Andalusian, García Lorca was born in 1878 in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada. The ‘Ay’ in García Lorca’s poem recalls the Flamenco tradition of the ‘cante jondo’, the profoundly musical tradition of Andalusia, which García Lorca and Mañuel de Falla started to revive in 1922. Who is this rider, what does his destiny hold for him, and why does death await him before reaching Córdoba? The Moorish poets of the Middle Ages used similar forms of allusion and repetition.
In this poem ‘Canción de Jinete’ (from Lorca’s Canciones) García Lorca uses an ancient Hispano-Arab form of poetry, wonderfully musical in its repetition and sound, where the real meaning of the poem is obscured.
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