On 14 February 1668, Juana Melchora, descendant of the Inca Huayna Capac, entered as a …
On 27 November 1368 (era 1406), the chapter and dean of Cordoba Cathedral formalised the …
The devotion to the Virgin of Buen Aire in Cáller (Cagliari) flourished during the 16th …
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Archivio della Cappella Musicale of the Basilica of the …
In 1502, Juan de Vergara, precentor of the Seville Cathedral, endowed the Matins services of Easter. Through this foundation, the ritual was enriched with a procession that, after the service …
The Confraternity of the Sacred Descent of Our Lord and the Fifth Anguish of Mary Most Holy was founded in 1500 in the convent of El Carmen in Seville. Its …
A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …
The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …
In 1611, the musical chapels of the collegiate church of El Salvador and that of the church of San Nicolás in Seville agreed to jointly serve the festivities that they …
This article provides the data that allow us to know when and with whom the oboe was introduced in the musical chapels of the main sacred institutions of Granada.
On 13 December 1520, after news reached Seville of the defeat of the comuneros in the battle of Tordesillas, the house of Medina Sidonia, responsible for quelling the comunero outbreak …
Information about the organ of the church of Santa Ana in Granada.
In 1566, Martín de Montesdoca, a resident of the San Lorenzo parish, printed the Agenda defunctorum, by Juan Vázquez, in Seville.
On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …