Mexican Music: Notes by Herbert Weinstock for Concerts Arranged by Carlos Chavez as Part of the Exhibition, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (Classic Reprint)
Mexican Music: Notes by Herbert Weinstock for Concerts Arranged by Carlos Chavez as Part of the Exhibition, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Mexican Music: Notes by Herbert Weinstock for Concerts Arranged by Carlos Ch???vez as Part of the Exhibition, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art Among the Aztecs music also played a purely lyric part. Fray Bernardino de Sahagun preserved Aztec poetry which tells us of the contemplative and delicate interior life of the Indian poets. All this poetry was sung. Its music must have been completely distinct from the military music and that of the great dance ceremonies. There was also another literary form with ...
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Excerpt from Mexican Music: Notes by Herbert Weinstock for Concerts Arranged by Carlos Ch???vez as Part of the Exhibition, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art Among the Aztecs music also played a purely lyric part. Fray Bernardino de Sahagun preserved Aztec poetry which tells us of the contemplative and delicate interior life of the Indian poets. All this poetry was sung. Its music must have been completely distinct from the military music and that of the great dance ceremonies. There was also another literary form with singing: the narrations of stories and occurrences, a form similar to the Spanish romance and to the music of the troubadours. Besides the chroniclers (torquemada, Sahagun, and many others), we have another] unquestionably reliable source of information: the archeological instruments preserved in museums. The study of these instruments indicates the existence of true musical culture among the ancient Mexicans. We would ill be able to talk of musical culture among the Aztecs if we did not have proof that their music was regulated in conformity with a well-established system. The Aztecs understood and applied the natural phenom enon of harmonics. For this understanding, the sea snail's shell was of prime importance. The antiquity of the use of the shell is not easy to determine, but it seems likely that it long antedated the Aztecs. The shells of Teotihuacan tend to prove that peoples at least as early as the Toltecs made use of it. The marine snail-shell provided a long tube serving the same purpose as in ancient. Oriental cultures was served by the animal horn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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