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The  Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Leonardo Torriani (1588)
Soundscape on a galleon bound for the Indies (1573)

Eugenio Salazar de Alarcón, governor of the islands of Tenerife and La Palma, in a …

Feb. 23, 2026
Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean. Mateo Prunes (1563)
From Tripoli to Venice, fourteenth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588–1589)

On 14 November 1588, Francisco Guerrero, accompanied by his pupil Francisco Sánchez, five pilgrims and …

Feb. 19, 2026
Altar of San Juan Bautista. Anonymous (c. 1390)
Foundations and endowments of the altar of San Juan Bautista (c. 1390) and La Anunciación (c. 1463) in Córdoba Cathedral

The devotional, liturgical and funerary space of the old altar of Saint John the Baptist …

Feb. 16, 2026
Cathedral of Tarazona. Photo: Alfonso de Vicente.
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Tarazona (1591-1601)

An inventory from 1591 lists four printed books by Victoria, in addition to a handwritten …

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Domestic music at the house of vihuela player Luis de Narváez

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

Little more than his origin in Granada and his probable employment in the service of Francisco de los Cobos, secretary to Charles V, before 1526, is what we can say …

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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the Aljama mosque of Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

The call to prayer of the müezzin, repeated five times a day, and the coranic psalmody at the Aljama mosque were essential elements of the soundscape of Muslim Granada.

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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the Aljama mosque of Ibn Adabbas in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 11, 2015

The call to prayer by the müezzin, repeated five times a day, and the coranic psalmody in the mosque of Ibn Adabbas were essential elements of the soundscape of Muslim Seville.

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