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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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Music of minstrels in the square of the Puerta de Guadix in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

In the neighborhood of the Axares, at the beginning of the 17th century, the space that bordered the Darro River was remodeled to form the Plaza de la Puerta de …

street music wind players city council AAT casa de las Chirimías (shawms)
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Hydraulic organ in the Alcázar's gardens

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

One of the most outstanding elements of the soundscape in the gardens of the Reales Alcázares is the fountain of Fame or the Organ, which is attached to the Grutesco …

organ AAT domestic music making Vermondo Resta (architect) ULAN hydraulic organ Francisco Correa de Arauxo (composer, organist) reales alcázares (Damas garden)
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Bell restoration (2012)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
bell restauration the pealing of bells bell-ringer church of San Juan de la Palma
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Bell restoration (2010)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
bell restauration the pealing of bells relojes y campanas Valverde S.A. bell-ringer church of San Pedro
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Literary academy of Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
academy AAT domestic music making Luis Vélez de Guevara (writer) Per Afán de Ribera (1st Count of la Torre) Antonio Ortíz Melgarejo (poet, musician) Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (playwright) Blas de las Casas Alés (poet) Ana Caro de Mallén (playwright) Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza (playwright) Armas street
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Procession of the confraternity of the Name of Jesus

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
procession AAT confraternity feast confraternities project penitential confraternities discipline confraternities confraternities with other avocations closed confraternities prisoners AAT singers AAT wind players Pedro de León (jesuit, writer) confraternity of the Name of Jesus at the prison of Sevilla public royal prison
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A party night at the prison of Seville at the end of the 16th century

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The description of a night of revelry in the prison of Seville, at the end of the 16th century, with food, music and sex, shows the laxity of customs in …

traditional songs traditional dances AAT meal AAT prisoners AAT Cristóbal de Chaves (writer) public royal prison
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Soundscape in the prison for women

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The testimony of Cristóbal de Chaves, in his Relación de las cosas de las cárcel de Sevilla y su trato, brings us closer to the sounds of popular music that …

traditional songs traditional dances AAT women and musical networks project prisoners AAT guitar player rattle player tejoleta player (piece of clay) adufe player (square tambourine) Cristóbal de Chaves (writer) Pedro de León (jesuit, writer) public royal prison
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Prison soundscape

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
traditional songs litany AAT salve prisoners AAT vihuela player tambourine player musician in the theater Cristóbal de Chaves (writer) Pedro de León (jesuit, writer) public royal prison
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Traditional music in the street and taverns

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

Miguel de Cervantes, in&nbsp;El Celoso extremeño, becomes a literary witness to the musical enthusiasm of Seville's black ethnic minority. In this work, he offers us a valuable testimony of their …

traditional songs traditional dances AAT guitar player Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (writer) ULAN various places
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