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Cathedral of Cuenca
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Cuenca (1584-1730)

Four chapter agreements, six accounting items, a copy of a letter and three detailed inventories …

Nov. 25, 2024
Cristóbal de Morales
Autograph letter from Cristóbal de Morales accompanying the shipment of his mass books printed in Rome to Prince Philip (1546)

The discovery of an unpublished autograph letter by Cristóbal de Morales, dated 15 January 1546 …

Nov. 20, 2024
<em>Obras poéticas</em>. Ana de San Jerónimo, pp. 355, 359
Loas written for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of El Ángel Custodio in Granada (c. 1760)

In the edition printed in 1773 of the&nbsp;Obras poéticas&nbsp;de Ana de San Jerónimo, a nun …

Nov. 16, 2024
Location of the old Gothic choir
First organs of the Cathedral of Cordoba (13th-15th centuries)

In this article we gather the first testimonies about the organs of the Cathedral of …

Nov. 10, 2024

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The black dancer Francisco Meneses (†1687)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
31-12-2021

A poetic jácara from 1687 brings us closer to the black musicians who sang and danced in the cities and towns of the Hispanic crowns during the Modern Age.

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Sebastián de Vivanco and the musical libraries

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Michael Noone
06-12-2021

On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de Vivanco left important positions: first when he exchanged the post of chapelmaster at Ávila cathedral …

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