Ballads of the lords of New Spain : the codex Romances de los señores de la Nueva España / transcribed and translated from the Nahuatl by John Bierhorst.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Nahuatl languages
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2009.
Description
xii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
  • William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere. [More in this series]
  • The William and Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the western hemisphere
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Language note
Text in English and Nahuatl.
Contents
  • 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
  • The text in Nahuatl and in English
  • Part I
  • Friends, let us sing
  • "I'm coming, I, Yoyontzin, craving flowers"
  • Again they make music
  • God Self Maker's home is nowhere
  • Friends, listen to this
  • "I come to guard the city"
  • The flower lords, the song bells
  • Chalco's come to fight
  • Let's drink
  • For a moment God's drums come forth
  • May your flesh, your hearts be leafy green
  • The flower trees are whirling
  • In this flower house
  • Princes, I've been hearing good songs
  • Part II
  • Now let us begin
  • A master of egrets makes these flowers move
  • On this flower mat you paint your songs
  • Are you obliging?
  • I'm born in vain
  • I strike up a song
  • I stand up the drum
  • Your flowers blossom as bracelets
  • My heart is greatly wanting flowers
  • Let there be comrades
  • Strike it up beautifully
  • Eagle flowers, broad leafy ones, are sprouting
  • A shield-roaring blaze-smoke rises up
  • Flowers are our only adornment
  • Part III
  • You paint with flowers, with songs
  • Your flowers are jade
  • Come forth and play our drum
  • In the house of pictures
  • Part IV
  • Begin in beauty
  • Like flowers
  • "Never with shields"
  • Jade, turquoise: your chalk, [your] plumes
  • Commentary
  • Concordance to proper nouns
  • Verbs, particles, and common nouns.
Other title(s)
Project Muse UPCC books.
ISBN
9780292718524 (cl. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008025278
OCLC
232327265
RCP
H - S
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