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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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Street sale of guitars in Alicante (1796)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
27-09-2020

A document from the municipal archive of Alicante allows us to know the sale of guitars in la plaza de la Fruta at the end of the 18th century.

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Musical instruments of Matía de Guzmán, knight of Ávila (1569)

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
24-09-2020

The civil and domestic musical life in Ávila during the 16th century is very little know. Hence the interest of this inventory from 1569, which includes wind, string and keyboard …

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Flutes and shawms for the Augustinian evangelization in New Spain (1551)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
18-09-2020

In 1553, the Augustinian friar Juan de San Román brought flutes and shawms to Mexico destined for one of the convents in the province of Santísimo Nombre de Jesús, whose …

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