ABSTRACT
A major task that the romancero presents to us today is the creation of an audio-visual archive of the Pan-Hispanic ballad, by means of an international effort, which will preserve for tomorrow in organized form the largest number and the most varied manifestions possible of the ballads. For audio archives to be useful and manageable, it is necessary that the versions stored in them be edited, whether in conventional printed form or transcribed in an electronic archive that can be reorganized and consulted whenever necessary. One of the activities that poems transmitted from memory to memory demand from students of balladry is the description of their poetic language, of the characteristics of their art. This task requires a thorough understanding of the significative complexity of ballad stories. The purpose of the romancero discourse formulas is to dramatize the narration through concrete, vicarious acts which help to visualize the essential events of the plot.
