The poetry of Lorca, combined with the music of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano op. He declares that cante jondo songs are “emotionally compared with the authentic blues of the Negroes of the southern United States.” 1 Donn Phoren provides a better understanding of the emotive background of cante jondo songs. These songs express the history and landscape of the Andalucían region. Cante jondo or “deep song” is considered the most serious and profound collection of songs in Flamenco music. The purpose of this study is to provide a conductor’s guide to the poetic, historical, and musical structure of the cante jondo. Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco used seven texts from Lorca’s Poema del Cante Jondo (Deep Song Poems) in his work Romancero Gitano, op. Composers around the world have found the poetry of Federico García Lorca a source of inspiration for solo and choral works.
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