Song and dance
Singing and dancing as learning, worship and entertainment. Pomar names a house of song and dance in Texcoco where boys learned both, and says songs kept the memory of the old kings.
Growing Up in Texcoco
Juan Bautista Pomar, Report on Texcoco (Texcoco, March 9, 1582): birth, schooling and the raising of children · dated at Texcoco, March 9, 1582; first printed at Mexico, 1891
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Otros se iban á la casa del canto y baile á deprender cantar y bailar: otros al juego de la pelota que se ha dicho, el cual estaba en la plaza pública,
Others went to the house of song and dance to learn to sing and dance. Others went to the ball game I have described, which was in the public square.