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Villancicos for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of La Santísima Trinidad in Puebla: new findings

This article complements that of the "Villancicos compuestos para la ceremonia de profesión de monjas …

Feb. 29, 2024
Convent of Santa Catalina of Ávila
Nuns music and polyphony in the Dominican convent of Santa Catalina in Ávila

The convent of Dominican nuns of Santa Catalina Martyr in the city of Ávila (1486-1836) …

Feb. 24, 2024
Our Lady of Antigua or La Grande Bell. Peeter van den Ghein III and Pauwels van Laere. Malinas (1600). Photography: Fernando Cova del Pino
Apprenticeship contract of a bell ringer at the Cathedral of Las Palmas (1619)

In this article we present the contract or deed, granted on February 4, 1619, in …

Feb. 20, 2024
Cathedral of Santa Catalina de Alejandría in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)
Endowment of minstrels to accompany the Viaticum in the Cathedral of Cartagena de Indias

Fray Juan de Ladrada, during his bishopric in Cartagena de Indias (1596-1613), promoted the accompaniment …

Feb. 20, 2024

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External organist and dulcian player in the convent of La Madre de Dios (1623)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-02-2019

In 1623, the entry of secular women into the cloister of the convent of la Madre de Dios (Comendadoras de Santiago) was authorized to reinforce the musical staff they had …

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Chaplains and musicians in the service of Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Fifth Duke of Medina Sidonia (1516)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-02-2019

El Cathálogo de todos los criados mayores y menores que han servido a los excelentísimos duques de Medina, preserved in the Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid, allows us to …

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Dance school in Granada (1574)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-01-2019

The contract established in 1574 between Juan Ortiz, "master of dance", and the instrumentalist Blas de Torres allows us to document the first "school" of dance in Granada.

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