Post #300:

Like the primitive Indian musical systems, deep song is a stammer, a wavering emission of the voice, a marvelous buccal undulation that smashes the resonant cells of our tempered scale, eludes the cold, rigid staves of modern music, and makes the tightly closed flowers of the semi-tones blossom into a thousand petals.

Flamenco does not proceed by undulation but by leaps. Its rhythm is as sure as that of our own music, and it was born centuries after Guido of Arezzo had named the notes.

Deep song is akin to the trilling of birds, the crowing of the rooster, and the natural music of forest and fountain.

- Federico García Lorca, from "Deep Song", in "In Search of Duende"

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