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Church of Santa Cruz in Madrid
Hiring of a group of minstrels by the confraternity of the Holy Sacrament of the church of Santa Cruz in Madrid (1631)

On 10 October 1631, the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the church of Santa …

May 26, 2024
Little cloister. Monastery of the Cartuja in Granada
Francisco Guerrero in the treatise Historia y origen de la música y canto llano by Juan Sánchez Vidal (1755)

In the middle of the 18th century, the figure of Francisco Guerrero was still highly …

May 24, 2024
Church of the Monastery of Descalzas Reales
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Descalzas Reales in Madrid (1708)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Descalzas Reales in …

May 22, 2024
Signature of Diego López
Contracts of Diego Lopez and Enrique Franco for the tuning and maintenance of the organs in Seville Cathedral (1594)

On 3 September 1594, the organ builders Diego López and Enrique Franco signed the notarial …

May 19, 2024

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Misereres sung before the Christ tied to the Column in the convent of Santa Teresa in Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
26-02-2020

Apart from its liturgical function, Psalm 51 (50) Miserere mei Deus was sung in other devotional contexts in many churches and chapels, in Lent and Holy Week. This resulted in …

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Renovation of the organ in the collegiate church of Santa Fe (1736)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
18-02-2020

In 1732, the chapter of the collegiate church of Santa Fe (Granada) agreed with the organ builder Fray Francisco Alejo Muñoz the renovation of the organ of his church, which …

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The Song of the Sibyl in the Tarragona Cathedral

Sergi González González
18-02-2020

Since 2014, the Song of the Sibyl is represented again in the cathedral of Tarragona. Eritrea, a sibyl daughter of a nymph, answers St. Augustine's questions about the redeemer's second …

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