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tower of the Cathedral of Ávila. Picture: A. de Vicente
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Ávila (1573-1601)

Transcription of sixteen agreements of the chapter of the cathedral of Ávila. Except for one, …

Sept. 11, 2024
Pescado Gate. W. Didot (1798)
Marian confraternity in the puerta del Pescado in Granada

Marian confraternity in the puerta del Pescado in Granada.

Sept. 1, 2024
<em>Indice di tutte l’opere di musica che si truova alla stampa della Pigna</em> (Venecia: Giacomo Vincenzi, 1591)
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the printing press of Giacomo Vincenzi (1591)

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the printing press of Giacomo Vincenzi (1591).

Aug. 27, 2024
Organ of the Monastery of San Zoilo. Gregorio González Roldán (1716)
Organ for the Monastery of San Zoilo in Carrión de los Condes (1716)

In 1716, the Benedictine community of the Monastery of San Zoilo signed a contract with …

Aug. 25, 2024

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Last organ of the convent of San José in Granada (1904)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
17-08-2018

The organ of the convent of San José was built in Malaga Cathedral by Aquiles Ghys in 1904 and inaugurated on 8 December of that year.

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Moorish dances and songs in the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada (1526)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
11-08-2018

Johannes Lange de Löwenberg, physician to the Elector of the Palatinate, Archduke Friedrich von Wittelsbach, provides us with an extraordinary account of the dances performed by a group of Moorish …

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Last organ of the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Granada (1836)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-08-2018

After the disentailment of Church properties, in 1836, the priest of the parish of Santa Isabel de Huetor Tajar (Granada) requested the organ from the Mercedarian convent of Nuestra Señora …

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Dilettante musicians and street romances in seventeenth-century Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
03-08-2018

The biography of the anchorite Francisco Velasco (Baza, 1577-Granada, 1622) allows us to approach two facets of the soundscape of Granada: domestic music and the performance of popular songs in …

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