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In 1368, under the bishopric of Andrés Pérez Navarro, the dean and chapter of the …
In this article we analyse the sensory elements of an important ritual that was celebrated …
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Nuestra Señora de …
In 1581, the organ builder Diego Liger de Sanforte travelled from Granada to Córdoba to …
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Bibliothèque National de France.
First testimonies about the wind players in Palencia cathedral (1553-1569).
On July 11, 1592, on the occasion of the visit of Felipe II to Valladolid, the city entertained the monarch with bullfights and juegos de cañas that took place in …
The location of a printed sheet from 1695 allows us to know the texts of the villancicos (secular songs) composed by the chapelmaster Juan Benito López Contreras to be sung …
The trumpets Gaspar Vallés, Juan Alonso, and Pedro Fernández participated in the enterprise of the conquest of Yucatán (Mexico), carried out by Francisco Montejo.
In 1618, Rodrigo Calderón, 1st Marquis of Siete Iglesias, patron of the Porta Coeli convent in Valladolid, commissioned the purchase of flutes and cornettos from Fray Diego de la Fuente, …
Confraternities at the Hospital of Corpus Christi.
In 1793, Fray Diego de la Virgen del Carmen, a discalced Augustinian monk, built a fortepiano in his convent in Manila (Philippines), with several newly invented registers, which was sent …
Jusepe Martínez de Ávila, cloth weaver, was an active “author of dances” in the city of Jaén and other nearby towns between 1618 and 1638. During this period, he was …
Description by Jean de L'Hermite, valet to King Philip II, of the acrobatics and games performed by a group of Italian ropewalkers in the Plaza del Alcázar in Madrid in …