Editions of El viage de Hierusalem (1605 and 1609) by Francisco Guerrero printed in the …
On 24 July 1258, Bishop Fernando de Mesa and the Chapter of Cordoba Cathedral granted …
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of La Encarnación in …
In his will, dated January 19, 1379, Ferrán Martínez, canon and archdeacon of Écija, bequeathed …
Miguel de Fuenllana lived for a few years in Seville, where he would print his book Orphenica Lyra. In his residence in the parish of San Marcos and in that …
The galleons that captained the fleet of the Indies carried among their crews several salaried minstrels. Jerónimo Franco, a ministril, embarked on the nao almiranta which in 1620 went "to …
The Biblioteca Nacional de España has preserved three sheets villancicos dedicated to Saints Justa and Rufina, patron saints of Seville, and linked to this city, which were performed in two …
One of the anecdotes narrated by the Portuguese physician Juan Méndez Nieto in his Discursos medicinales gives us an insight into the domestic musical activity in the house owned by …
In the convent of Santo Tomás de Villanueva, commonly known as Tomasas, the nuns celebrate on 8 December a particular ceremony typical of this female monastery in Granada, which probably …
In 1546, Juan de León (I) printed in Seville the Tres libros de música en cifras para vihuela by Alonso de Mudarra in his workshop near the church of Santa …