Word: payamb
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...America. In Mexico the Aztecs, in Yucatan the Mayans developed civilizations which declined and fell so long ago that little is known of them today. Their traditions, lingering in the stones and exhumed jewelry of their cities, are of an antiquity admirably suited to folklore and epic poetry. Hence Payambé, "The First One," a new Mexican opera...
...music is by Fausto Piñedo, a Yucatecan who has adapted European methods of writing to the methods of Mexico's popular troubadour ballads. Under the Minister of Public Education's auspices, Payambé will soon be presented in Mexico City, probably at the Arbeu Theatre, for the great National Theatre, designed for the presentation of opera and drama, though conceived many years ago, is still incomplete...
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