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Inventory of polyphonic books of the Calahorra Cathedral (1628)

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
April 28, 2026

An inventory from around 1628, with later additions, reveals the wealth of polyphonic music books available to the music chapel of Calahorra Cathedral. The identified authors and books demonstrate their …

music book inventory purchase of a book of polyphony Cristóbal de Morales. Missarum liber primus (1544) Cristóbal de Morales. Missarum liber secundus (1544) Francisco Guerrero. Sacrae cantiones quae vulgo moteta nuncupatur (1555) [G 4866] Francisco Guerrero. Liber vesperarum (1584) [G 4873] Tomás Luis de Victoria. Missarum libri duo (1583) (V 1431) Tomás Luis de Victoria. Missae quatuor, quinque, sex et octo vocibus. Liber secundus (1592) (V 1434) Tomás Luis de Victoria. Missae, magnificat, motecta, psalmi et alia (1600) [V 1435] Tomás Luis de Victoria. Officium defunctorum (1605) (V 1436) Juan Esquivel de Barahona. Motecta festorum et dominicarum, 1608 (E 826) Juan Esquivel de Barahona. Missarum ... liber primus 1608 (E 825) Juan Esquivel de Barahona. Psalmorum, hymnorum, magnificarum, 1613 Diego Bruceña. Libro de misas, magnificats y motetes, 1620. Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia. Canticum Beatissimae Virginis (1618) Juan Navarro. Psalmi, hymni ac Magnificat totius anni, 1590 (N283) Miguel Navarro. Liber Magnificarum, quatuor vocibus, 1614 (N 285) Pedro Rimonte. Cantiones sacrae ... et Hieremiae prophetae Lamentationes, 1607 (R 1711) Sebastián López de Velasco. Libro de missas, motetes, salmos, magníficas y otras cosas (1628) fabordon Cristóbal de Morales (composer, chapel master, singer) Melchor Robledo (chapel master, composer) Francisco Guerrero (composer, chapel master) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (composer) Tomás Luis de Victoria (composer) Juan Esquivel de Barahona (composer, chapel master) Juan Navarro (composer) Miguel de Echarren y Navarro (chapel master, composer) Sebastián de Vivanco (composer, chapel master) Sebastián López de Velasco (composer, chapel master) Alonso Lobo de Borja (composer, chapel master) Pedro Rimonte (Ruimonte) (composer, chapel master) Emeterio Garay (wind player) Diego de Bruceña (composer, chapel master) Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia (organist, composer) Philippe Rogier (composer) José de Oñate (sochantre) Bartolomeo Lo Roy (composer) Josquin des Prez (composer). Martín del Valle Castillo (chapelmaster) Sebastián Pérez (master of minstrels, dulcian player) Alonso de Salmeron (alto) cathedral of Santa María
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Pious endowments and the burial of Marina de Zuazola at the Convent of the Santísima Trinidad in Granada (1590)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
April 20, 2026

Various documents enable us to reconstruct the large funeral procession of Marina de Zuazola Idiáquez from her home to the Church of El Sagrario in Granada, where the requiem mass …

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