Music and poetry; a new  artistcal expression to be born - Research made by Antonio Dorado 

From ancient times to the most actual situations; from Greek civilisation to modern philosophers... the relationship beetwen music and language has always been a recurrent topic among human discussions from the very begining of its history. Yet, how do they actually interact with each other? In which extent does one influence the other? Is music a tool for enhancing the language, or is it the other way around? Art could not scape from the borders dictated by society labels for a long time; painting, music, poetry, has in so many cases and for a long time discriminated and condemned to work as isolated worlds.

It happens to be that musical performance and literature has usually been restricted to be two isolated world, condemned not to interact in most situations. Fortunately, little by little some new artist have been exploring the wide range of of opportunities and possibilities that it can offer, and have enhance others intention of doing so1. Even though it is an author about music, Gallwey, W. Timothy expresses perfectly this phenomenon “There is a more natural process of learning and performing waiting to be discovered. It is waiting to show what it can do when allowed to operate without interference from the conscious strivings of the judgmental ego-mind.”2xthere are a lot of discussions about this topic, and different hypothesis can be made about it. Nevertheless, the scholastic nature of this fields and its reluctance to stay open to new combinations and ways of creating have played a crucial role in the whole situation.

The aim of this research is to discover the interaction between two of them: music and poetry, and also try to stabilise new path for new multidisciplinary performers that might explore. It is not intended to stabilise a dichotomy between this two ideas, or two make a comparison or isolated study of them. Instead, we spect to break the borders that keep them apart and to find new ways in which the can be combined in order to give birth to new ways of performing. To do so, we will use as a starting point common characteristic that they have in a first thought, concerning the musical part of poetry and the rhetorical and speech-sense of the music. By doing so, we pretend to show the lot of similarities that they actually share, finding the most direct way of interaction between them and forming a total big one idea where the lines might be blurred. 

Our world is in continued change, and, with globalisation calling to our door, it is almost compulsory to avoid this kind of mental approaching. This work aim is to set a new way of exploring the way of this two arts out of their box and apportion a theory base to it. Hopefully new exploring artists of this field will take this research as a first step of its creative work.

Right below might be found an example of the kind of performance that this research is focused on. The poem is "Because I could not stop from Death", from Emily Dickinson.

Bibliography
-Lucien Goethals and Gust Gils, The Relationship between Poetry and Music. A Conversation between Lucien Goethals, Composer and Gust Gils, Poet , 2000.
-Gallwey, W. Timothy, The Inner game of tennis, New York, Random House Publishing Group, 2010.
- Samuel N. Rosenberg, Songs Of The Troubadours And Trouvères: An Anthology Of Poems And Melodies, 1981