Ballads of the Lords of New Spain : The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
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- 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