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convent de Santa Helena do Monte Calvário. Picture by David Freitas (1960)
Évora
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do Monte Calvário in Evora

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Santa Helena do …

April 21, 2024
<em>View taken from above the bullring</em> (detail). Alfred Guesdon (c. 1855)
Granada
Festival organised by the Real Maestranza of Granada on the occasion of the reception of Agustín de Valdivia as an elder brother (1767)

Antonio Soriano, chapel master of the Collegiate Church of El Salvador, composed the march La …

April 17, 2024
Title page. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em> (1594) [E-Mrae, 14-XI-37]
Barcelona
First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594)

First Barcelona edition of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (1594).

April 12, 2024
Church of San Lorenzo
Valladolid
Will of the ministril Francisco González Dávila (1654)

The will of the ministril and dulcian player Francisco González Dávila provides us with his …

April 9, 2024

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The music chapel of the convent of Santa Paula in Seville in the first half of the 17th century

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The testimony of Manuel Correa del Campo, composer and prebendary singer of Seville Cathedral, in a letter addressed to the chapel master of Granada Cathedral, Diego Pontac, highlights the significant …

mass AAT vespers women and musical networks project Margarita (singer, nun) Manuel Correa del Campo (composer, alto, prebendary) Diego Pontac (composer, chapel master) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (writer) ULAN Ana María Serafina (singer, nun) music chapel of the convent of Santa Paula (Sevilla) convent of Santa Paula (Jeronimites)
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The music chapel of the convent of San Clemente in Seville in the first half of the 17th century

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

In the first half of the 17th century, the music chapel formed by the nuns of the monastery of San Clemente was going through one of its most brilliant moments. …

vespers mass AAT women and musical networks project Juan de Espina Velasco (priest, art collector, music theorist) Brianda de Guzman (abbess of the convent of San Clemente) Diego Pontac (composer, chapel master) Manuel Correa del Campo (composer, alto, prebendary) Luis Vélez de Guevara (writer) Ana María Serafina (singer, nun) music chapel of the convent of San Clemente convent of San Clemente (Cistercians)
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Domestic music at the house of José -Yusaph o Yuzaf- Pichón and Samuel Abravanel

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
domestic music making Jewish Spanish romance José -Yusaph or Yuzaf- Pichón (tax-collector-in-chief of Seville and its archbishopric) Samuel Abravanel (tax-collector-in-chief of Seville and its archbishopric) jewish community AAT minstrels house of José Pichón and Samuel Abravanel (= Zuñiga palace = Altamira palace)
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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the mosque of San Bartolomé in Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The call to prayer by the müezzin, repeated five times a day, and the coranic psalmody in the mosque on which the church of San Bartolomé was later built were …

the call to prayer by a muezzin coranic psalmody muezzin AAT mosque (church of San Bartolomé)
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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the mosque of Santa Cruz's square in Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The call to prayer by the müezzin, repeated five times a day, and the coranic psalmody in the mosque of Santa Cruz's square&nbsp;were essential elements of the soundscape of Muslim …

the call to prayer by a muezzin coranic psalmody muezzin AAT mosque (church of Santa Cruz)
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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the mosque of Santa María la Blanca in Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The call to prayer by the müezzin, repeated five times a day, and the coranic psalmody in the mosque on which the church of Santa María la Blanca was later …

the call to prayer by a muezzin coranic psalmody sound of the water muezzin AAT water mosque (church of Santa María la Blanca)
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Medieval synagogue soundscape in Sevilla (Santa María la Blanca)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

One of the three most important synagogues in the Jewish quarter of Seville was located on the site now occupied by the church of Santa María la Blanca. Musical practice …

jewish religious service Jewish psalmody hazzan (singer) rabbi AAT jewish community AAT synagogue (church of Santa María la Blanca)
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Music lessons to Antonio Garzon's nieces (1592)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

The request of Antonio Garzón, prebendary and alto singer, to the chapter of the cathedral of Granada of the Cristóbal de Morales old books of masses for the teaching of …

music lessons domestic music making music education women and musical networks project Antonio Garzón (prebendary, alto) Cristóbal de Morales (composer, chapel master, singer) Luis de Cózar (composer, chapel master) unknown location cathedral of La Encarnación
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Medieval synagogue soundscape in Sevilla (Santa Cruz)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

One of the three most important synagogues in the Jewish quarter of Seville was located on the site now occupied by the square of Santa Cruz. Musical practice in medieval …

jewish religious service Jewish psalmody hazzan (singer) rabbi AAT jewish community AAT Yehuda Alobas (rabbi) synagogue (church of Santa Cruz)
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Medieval synagogue soundscape in Sevilla (San Bartolomé)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

One of the three most important synagogues in the Jewish quarter of Seville was located on the site now occupied by the church of San Bartolomé. Musical practice in medieval …

jewish religious service Jewish psalmody hazzan (singer) rabbi AAT jewish community AAT synagogue (church of San Bartolomé)
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