Ballads of the Lords of New Spain : : The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana /

Ballads of the Lords of New Spain : : The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana / / John Bierhorst.

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Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mindset of the Aztec people some sixty years after the conquest of Mexico. Presented as a cancionero, or anthology, in the mode of New Spain, the ballads sho...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Bierhorst, John,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2009
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere
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Physical Description:1 online resource (253 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on Orthography
  • Using the Online Edition
  • Introduction
  • On the Translation of Aztec Poetry
  • Guide to the Vocabulary
  • Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España Ballads of the Lords of New Spain
  • Guide to the Transcription
  • Part 1
  • 1. Friends, let us sing
  • 2. “I’m coming, I, Yoyontzin, craving flowers
  • 3. Again they make music
  • 4. God Self Maker’s home is nowhere
  • 5. Friends, listen to this
  • 6. “I come to guard the city”
  • 7. The flower lords, the song bells
  • 8. Chalco’s come to fight
  • 9. Let’s drink
  • 10. For a moment God’s drums come forth
  • 11. May your flesh, your hearts be leafy green
  • 12. The flower trees are whirling
  • 13. In this flower house
  • 14. Princes, I’ve been hearing good so
  • Part 2
  • 1. Now let us begin
  • 2. A master of egrets makes these flowers move
  • 3. On this flower mat you paint your songs
  • 4. Are You obliging?
  • 5. I’m born in vain
  • 6. I strike up a song
  • 7. I stand up the drum
  • 8. Your flowers blossom as bracelets
  • 9. My heart is greatly wanting flowers
  • 10. Let there be comrades
  • 11. Strike it up beautifully
  • 12. Eagle flowers, broad leafy ones, are sprouting
  • 13. A shield-roaring blaze-smoke rises
  • 14. Flowers are our only adornment
  • Part 3
  • […]
  • 1-A. You paint with flowers, with songs
  • 2. Your flowers are jade
  • 3. Come forth and play our drum
  • 4. In the house of pictures
  • Part 4
  • 1. Begin in beauty
  • 2. Like flowers
  • 3. “Never with shields”
  • 4. Jade, turquoise: your chalk, [your] plumes
  • Commentary
  • Concordance to Proper Nouns
  • Verbs, Particles, and Common Nouns
  • Appendix I Two Versions of the Myth of the Origin of Music
  • Appendix II Corrections for the Cantares Edition
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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