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<em>Viage de Hierusalen</em>. Francisco Guerrero (Alcalá de Henares: Juan Gracián, 1605)
Alcalá de Henares
Editions of El viage de Hierusalem (1605 and 1609) by Francisco Guerrero printed in the workshops of Juan Gracián in Alcalá de Henares.

Editions of El viage de Hierusalem (1605 and 1609) by Francisco Guerrero printed in the …

March 20, 2025
Former location of San Marcos Chapel
Cordova (SP)
Foundation of the Chapel of San Marcos in the Cathedral of Cordoba (1258)

On 24 July 1258, Bishop Fernando de Mesa and the Chapter of Cordoba Cathedral granted …

March 15, 2025
<em>Cuando fenece el abril</em>. Francisco Figuerola (1691)
Valencia
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of La Encarnación in Valencia (17th century)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of La Encarnación in …

March 10, 2025
Reconstruction of the interior of the Mudejar cathedral of Seville (1)
Seville
Pious endowment of Ferrán Martínez, canon and archdeacon of Écija in the cathedral of Seville (1379/1403)

In his will, dated January 19, 1379, Ferrán Martínez, canon and archdeacon of Écija, bequeathed …

March 6, 2025

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The teaching of the organ in the domestic space (1647-1649)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
18-11-2017
teaching music education domestic music making motet Pange lingua (hymn) fabordon Pedro de Cátedra Fajardo (organist, priest) Pedro de León (organista, clergy of minor orders) parish of Santa María Magdalena parish of San Juan de Acre
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Music education and domestic music (c. 1620)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
15-11-2017

The biographical profile of Adriana del Espíritu Santo offers us an interesting example of the musical education of the young women of the Granada oligarchy and of the parties that …

music education dances domestic music making dances music lessons women and musical networks project Adriana del Espíritu Santo (nun) convent of Jesús y María (Capuchin Franciscans) various places
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Selling music scores and other musical accessories (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-11-2017
selling music scores selling musical accessories simphony chamber music aria Mariano de la Torre (Italian merchant) Ignace Joseph Pleyel (composer) Joseph Haydn (composer) Jan Ladislav Dussek (compositor) François Devienne (composer) Adalbert Gyrowetz (composer) Franz Xaver Dussek (composer) Mariano de la Torre store
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First juegos de cañas documented in the Christian Granada (1492-1494)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
10-11-2017
juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) bustle in the street animal sounds Hieronymus Münzer (humanist) drum player trumpeter wind players Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, Second Count of Tendilla, First Marquis of Mondéjar Alhambra (fortress)
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Funeral rites held for King Carlos III organized by the Royal Academy of Medicine and other sciences of Sevilla(1789)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
07-11-2017

On 13 and 14 February 1789, the Royal Society of Medicine and other sciences of Seville celebrated the funeral rites of Carlos III in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

funeral rites matins for the dead (= vigil) requiem mass sermon Royal Academy of Medicine and other sciences of Sevilla music chapel of the cathedral clerics of the veintena chaplains nobility cathedral chapter Order of Calced Mercedarians convent of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (Calced Mercedarians)
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Burying a Muslim in the cemetery (maqbara) of Bāb Ilbīra (1494)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
05-11-2017

The German traveller Hieronymus Münzer, in his Journey through Spain and Portugal (1494-95), gives us an account of the burial ceremony he witnessed on his visit to the Muslim cemetery …

burial coranic psalmody crying professional mourners muslim cemetery of Bāb Ilbīra
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Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1792)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
03-11-2017
selling of instruments domestic music making Borceguinería street
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The orchestral hand horns in the cathedral music chapel

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
29-10-2017
buying an instrument horn player music chapel of the cathedral Gregorio Portero (composer, chapel master) Tomás de Peñalosa (chapel master, dulcian player, oboist, horn player) cathedral cathedral of Granada. Choir
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Public concerts in the bullring of Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
23-10-2017

In the second half of the 18th century, the Real Maestranza of Seville organized a series of public concerts in the bullring that seem to fade away with the first …

public concert Real Maestranza de Sevilla Cristóbal de Luna (violinist) Nicolás Núñez (violinist) oboe clarion horn player timpani double bass cello violin player bullring
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Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
21-10-2017
selling of instruments buying an instrument domestic music making Molviedro or Nueva de la Laguna street
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