When Romeo refuses to fight, Romeo’s friend Mercutio accepts the challenge and is killed. Romeo and his companions almost immediately encounter Juliet’s cousin Tybalt, who challenges Romeo. Their families are enmeshed in a feud, but the moment they meet-when Romeo and his friends attend a party at Juliet’s house in disguise-the two fall in love and quickly decide that they want to be married.A friar secretly marries them, hoping to end the feud. Entire Play The prologue of Romeo and Juliet calls the title characters “star-crossed lovers”-and the stars do seem to conspire against these young lovers.Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet a Capulet.Soundscape is available for download at /downloads. The performer may also substitute shekere or caxixi. toms, bongos).ĥ metals: 3 resonant/2 dry (suggestion: 3 graduated metal plates, high and low stacked cymbals).ġ pair, maracas (joropo style). It is clear that human sacrifices were made at El Tajin and that these rituals were connected with the games played here.ģ resonant wood sounds (suggestion: 1" x 6" purpleheart wood planks – 24", 27", 30" in length).Ħ resonant skins (suggestion: 22" bass drum, 3 medium-lg. Game courts feature heavily here with over a dozen having been discovered already. The Pyramid of Niches, with its 365 alcoves, suggests to archaeologists that this pyramid was used as some kind of calendar with each niche representing the days of the solar year. El Tajin is one of Mexico's most interesting archaeological sites, as many of the structures seem to refer to the measurement of time. There are many questions still about its inhabitants and the many buildings that remain today, smothered in dense jungle vegetation. This large ancient complex is believed to have once been a ceremonial and commerce center its construction has been attributed to a tribe related to the Mayas. In the Veracruz region of Mexico, lie some mysterious archaeological ruins: El Tajin, meaning, "thunder" in the Toltec language. Tajin by James Campbell is a solo for percussion and soundscape.
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