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Word: xochipili (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aztec god of music, the dance, flowers, love-was the real stuff. But it really sounded like an Aztec jam session. Flutes and pipes shrilled and wailed, a trombone (subbing for the snail shell) neighed an angular melody, to the spine-tingling thump-and-throb of drums, gourds, rattles. Xochipili-Macuil-xochitl sounded almost as primitive as Stravinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aztec Music, Reconstructed | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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