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... be attributed to Nezahualcoyotl. Yet, the Flute of the Smoking Mirror by Frances Gillmor, keeps its place of distinction among the not very abundant contributions on the deeds of this pre-Columbian statesman of Mesoamerica. Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Flute of the Smoking Mirror...

...R. E. Q. Flute of the Smoking Mirror. A Portrait of Nezahualcoyotl—Poet-King of the Aztecs . By Gillmor Frances . Tucson , 1968 . University of Arizona Press . Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 183 . $6.50 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969...

..., and can speak of “the advanced six-tone scale we hear in a millenary Preclassic flute; the seven-tone scale similar to the European diatonic scale produced by a Maya flute from the Island of Jaina; the whole-tone scale produced by Tarascan flutes, and extraordinary triple and quadruple flutes from...

... their convento in 1535, Josse [=Jodocus=Jodoco] de Rycke of Malines, and Pierre Gosseal of Louvain. 1 “In addition to teaching the Indians how to read and write, Fray Jodoco taught them to play various keyboard and string instruments, also sackbuts and shawms, flutes, trumpets, and cornetts, and the science...

..., including guitars, bandolas, tiples, drums, flutes, and maracas. 51 As was the case with orfeones, regional murgas had to meet the terms established by the directorate in order to receive government funding, and thus locals had to adjust their own way of defining these ensembles. The directorate’s...

... and on carpenters and masons and on lath and lime and on flutes and other things that are offered, and on paying the teachers who have taught the boys of the church to sing.” 26 Don Martín Cusi, one of the principal kurakas of the province, provided the Spanish inspector with a detailed accounting of nearly 2...

...; at these native artists would perform traditional dances of the highlands and play the quena , the typical Indian flute. These meetings usually ended with a speech by one of the teachers on the need to “vindicate” the rights of Peru’s long-oppressed Indians. 26 At the same time, each Popular University had...

... in the unpredictable climate of the highlands. 28 The reciprocal ideal also played an important role in relations between hacendado and peons throughout the Cinti Valley. In other vineyards, after the harvest the workers made a chair decorated with olive branches and flowers, and to the tune of native flutes...

... capital. Observing mestizo horsemen garbed in brightly trimmed ponchos, bombachas (fluted trousers), and the broad-brimmed, shallow-crowned gaucho sombrero, El Orden’ s correspondent mused that it seemed the montoneras of La Rioja caudillo Facundo Quiroga had returned. From balconies overhead...

... to and take part in festivities that included singers, musicians, and dancers in ritual attire who performed for thousands. Percussive instruments such as rattles, as well as marine shell trumpets and ceramic flutes, accompanied the singers in a series of songs that started off slow and in low tones...

... mesoamericana.” In Cielos e inframundos: Una revisión de las cosmologías mesoamericanas , edited by Díaz Ana , 25–64. Mexico City : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , 2015 . Olivier Guilhem . “The Hidden King and the Broken Flutes: Mythical and Royal Dimensions of the Feast...

... banners, they were accompanied by musicians playing Chinese flutes and cymbals. 65 These actions directly echoed practices by sworn brotherhoods and guerrilla militias on all sides of the Taiping Rebellion. 66 In 1881, the blood oath in Lurín also united free Chinese merchants (most notably...

..., 1962), 182; Frances Gillmor, Flute of the Smoking Mirror: A Portrait of Nezahualcoyotl, Poet-King of the Aztecs (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1949), 29 – 30, 85. 73 William B. Taylor, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages (Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 1979...

... simultaneously insisting on their status as native-born Uruguayans. As stated in its charter, the group’s principal goal was to create a music academy that would train young Afro-Uruguayans in piano, violin, flute, and guitar: the instruments of European civilization. At the same time, however, the comparsa did...

... bought him the finest clarinet in Mexico. She also purchased other new instruments, such as flutes, for his musicians so that Chiñas’s band would rival the “magnificent band of the state capital that was also expected to play at the festivities.” 68 Porfirians also targeted public health, since...

... cardinal entrances to the pueblos, provided the spatial orientation for liturgical ceremonies. Musical instruments, especially violins, flutes, and organs, were built in the Chiquitos missions and used to accompany religious processions and the Mass. Musicians were highly respected, and the post...

....” 72 Played to Pixinguinha’s soft, fluttering flute, the piece is widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest love song. Many musicians carefully made mixed-race or black (but rarely white) women the objects of their desire. In 1928 Patrício Texeira, one of the few Afro-Brazilian artists to receive...

... almost half of the population of Ceará in 1872. 80 Maria de Lourdes Bandeira, “Os kariris de Mirandela: Um grupo indígena integrado,” Estudos Batanas , 6 (1972), 82-83. During the festival the participants danced to a taquari , a long flute. 79 See Ivo Vannuchi, “Tipos étnicos e sociais...