Song (lyrical)

The song is a popular lyrical composition of Provençal origin. It is an admiring poem that expresses an emotion and that generally has a love theme; but in some cases they express self-love, love of life among others. The song aims to reach the heart of the person who listens to it or reads it. It came to Spain in the Renaissance through Italian literature.

History

The lyrical song is a composition in the form of an admiring poem that denotes an emotion and a theme. They are usually always the loving type. Its origins go back to the Provençal troubadours, who wrote lyrics and music together. Later the lyrical genre of Provence gave rise to the sonnet.

Structure

The song is made up of a variable number of equal verses (usually between five and seven), called estancias, which combine consonant verses of nine and fourteen syllables. It is usually finished off with an envío (concedo in Italian) that transmits the song to its addressee.

Each estarza, or room, is made up of two parts: the front (fronte) and the tail (coda or sira). Depending on how they are, the Sicilian song is distinguished from the Petrarchan song.

Sicilian song

The front ("front") is made up of two [feet] (piedi), which contain the same number of verses, but whose rhythmic scheme may be different.

The tail ("tail"), in the same way, must be decomposed into two turns (volt) with the same metric scheme.

Petrarchan song

Already tested its structure by Dante, it is definitively sanctioned by Petrarch.

It consists of a forehead of two feet and a tail, generally undivided. In addition, between frente and tail there must be a volta that rhymes with the last verse of the front.

Sending, for its part, takes its structure from the queue. Sometimes it's a whole tail, sometimes one of its turns; and sometimes only his last verses.