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Rattle

Rattle is a broad organological term for an idiophone sounded by shaking a container or frame with loose or attached elements. Mexican examples can be made from gourds, wood, seeds, metal, or other materials and may accompany dance, ceremony, popular performance, or experimental composition. Construction, local name, and social function vary substantially among communities. Consult Mexican Rarities records for photographs, locality, instrument credits, and documented occasion to distinguish a particular rattle from other shaken idiophones. This category provides a comparative entry point without treating all rattles as interchangeable or assigning them a single cultural meaning.

TLAXCALTEC MUSICAL TRADITION. In Tlaxcala, as in many other regions of the Republic, popular music presents two aspects: the one that responds to the needs and demands of an increasingly

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