THE INSTRUMENTS
Despite losing 90% of their indigenous population,
some 80 to 120 million people,
(the largest documented genocide in the history of the world)
the instruments still survive
but unlike instruments of other ancient cultures
who did not lose 90% of their population,
these instruments continue to be played daily
by thousands of modern-day practitioners
in more traditional settings daily throughout Mexico,
these instruments are not sitting behind glass in a museum somewhere
We are 3 modern-day practitioners,
who continue to play and compose original music,
in traditional settings and non traditional settings
e.g.,
with chamber groups and world music groups from varous
countries
e.g.,
China, India, Japan, the Near, Middle and Far East
the earliest radiocarbon dated murals of the
instruments being played go back to 790 A.D.
in Chiapas, and they are Mayan, not Mexica
Tenothcitlan,
now Mexico City,
was founded in 1325,
some 540 years later
INDIGENOUS
BREATH, STRING AND PERCUSSION
INSTRUMENTS OF MESOAMERICA and MEXICO
used in each program
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