Gerardo Diego's Creation Myth of Music

This monograph unlocks the fullness of the meaning of "Fábula de Equis y Zeda", sourced in music's mythical consciousness and expressed in a poetic idiom that replicates aesthetic concepts and cubist strategies of form embraced by the neoclassical composers Bartok, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky.

Judith Stallings-Ward is Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Norwich University, where she currently serves as Spanish Program director. She received her PhD from Yale University. She specializes in twentieth-century Spanish poetry as well as Cervantes. She has published extensively on the Vermont poems of Federico García Lorca, the inter-art relations in the poetry of Gerardo Diego, Cervantes's　Don Quixote, and the anarchism of Gandhi and Durruti.

Introduction PART I Foundations of Diego's Creation Myth Chapter 1 Three Guiding Questions Chapter 2 Theory and Criticism Chapter 3 Manual de espumas as Incubator of Fábula PART II Fábula de Equis y Zeda Chapter 4 The Framework Chapter 5 "Brindis" Chapter 6 "Exposición" Chapter 7 "Amor" Chapter 8 "Desenlace" Conclusion