Unha canción marabillosa, galega e panteísta

Abstract

In addition to poetry, Manuel María has a fundamental place in Galician Contemporary music creation. His mark can be found in several sides. First of all, the strong support he offered to the first artists who started to sing in Galician in the 1970s, and, from that moment, to all the men and women who kept on singing in this language. Furthermore, his poetical work is a prolific source to which many musicians usually turned to, and still do, to create new compositions. Thus, nowadays a hundred of his poems become part, turned into songs, of the Galician popular music heritage. In the end, it is pointed out how, through music, Manuel María’s poetry has a dialogue with other latitudes, specially with Catalonian and Basque culture.