摘要:The viola cantoria, which comes from an essentially oral tradition, has in the improvisation, known like repente, its greater poetic fertility. The question that guides this work is based on the investigation of viola cantoria genesis, that is, on the senses that ground the repente-generating metaphors. For this purpose, we seek to analyze, in the theory of material imagination, proposed by Bachelard - constituted from the water, earth and air material elements - the generating formers of the imagination, which are directly responsible for the wealth of images that produce the metaphors in the viola improvisation. In Heidegger it is sought to investigate the sovereignty of language as manager of human actions, via poetry.