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On 1st November 1625, Saint Bonaventure was solemnly proclaimed patron saint of the island of …
During the mandate of the mayor Vicente Cano (1787-1793), important public works and reforms were …
Four chapter agreements, six accounting items, a copy of a letter and three detailed inventories …
The discovery of an unpublished autograph letter by Cristóbal de Morales, dated 15 January 1546 …
The confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the church of El Sagrario organised an annual procession to bring communion to the prisoners in the Seville jail.
In 1699, Juan Antonio Rico, prebendary organist of the cathedral of Granada, endowed the singing of the antiphon Salve regina after Vespers of the Feast of the Patronage of Our …
Recreation of the soundscape of a palace in Seville using the Reaper programme, in which holophonic sounds have been used. This recreation was based on recordings of ambient sounds made …
Luthier at the parish of Omnium Sanctorum in Seville (1598).
Read articleIn the convent of San Antón in Granada, four hundred and twenty-one sung masses were celebrated annually with deacons, acolytes and organ, nine of them with sermons, which earned the …
In a regulation of the master of ceremonies of the cathedral of Seville, written in the first quarter of the 17th century, we find the chapter's recommendations to avoid theft …
A letter from the exclaustrated Franciscan friar Pascual de Chávez to Archbishop Luis Antonio Folgueras y Sión, dated 1849, tells us about the fate of the last organ in the …
In 1674, the reprimands that the chapter of the cathedral of Granada made to Gabriel de Mora, alto singer, which even led to his temporary dismissal, allow us to learn …
The pealing of the Angelus in the bell tower of the cathedral of Seville.
On 6 November 1653, the Chapter of Granada Cathedral agreed with Clemente Jiménez, a guitar maker from Granada, to build a harp for 350 reales (11,900 maravedís). The instrument was …