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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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Traditional music of the Sevillian black ethnic community

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
traditional songs chacona (dance) traditional dances AAT paracumbé (dance) ye-ye (dance) zambapalo (dance) sarabande (dance) zarambeque or zumbé (dance) black people Juan de Valladolid (gentlment usher, foreman of black people) frame drum player rattle player guitar player Lope de Vega (writer) Santa María la Blanca square
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Outdoor concert in the Alameda de Hércules

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The remodelling in 1574 of the Alameda de Hércules in Seville made it a place for recreation and strolling for the citizens, especially in summer, enlivened by a group of …

instrumental concert street music instrumentalists AAT citizens AAT wind players city council AAT alameda de Hércules
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Traditional songs in Saint John's Eve

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

At the beginning of his play Lo cierto por lo dudoso, Lope de Vega takes us to the night of San Juan, in the Alameda in Seville, a space that …

traditional songs traditional dances AAT Lope de Vega (writer) mulatto frame drum player rattle player guitar player voices alameda de Hércules
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Funeral procession and funeral rites of Íñigo López de Mendoza, Second Count of Tendilla, First Marquis of Mondéjar (1515)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

On 20 July 1515, Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Mondéjar and 2nd Count of Tendilla (1440-1515), died in the Alhambra at the age of 74. His mortal remains …

funeral rites funeral procession AAT the pealing of bells crying AAT Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, Second Count of Tendilla, First Marquis of Mondéjar soldiers AAT clergy citizens AAT trumpets AAT trumpeters of the Alhambra drummers AAT convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra (Franciscans) Yusuf III or Count of Tendilla palace (Alhambra)
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Meal (1420)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
meal AAT city council AAT minstrels casas del cabildo municipal / Corral de los Olmos (old town hall)
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Announcement of the take of Malaga (1487)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
announcement AAT city council AAT town crier drummers AAT trumpeter AAT Gradas street Alfalfa square San Francisco square
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Feast (1784)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
vespers mass AAT music chapel of the cathedral choirboys comodity exchange brokers guild Bartolome Polo (tenor, priest, music chapel agent) convent of el Espíritu Santo = Los Menores (Regular Minor Clergyman)
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Burial of a child (1784)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
burial AAT processional transfer of the deceased to the church music chapel of the cathedral choirboys Bartolome Polo (tenor, priest, music chapel agent) church of el Sagrario
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Religious profession (1785)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
religious profession music chapel of the cathedral choirboys Bartolome Polo (tenor, priest, music chapel agent) convento of Santa María de la Paz (Augustinians)
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Feast (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
vespers mass AAT music chapel of the cathedral organist AAT choirboys church of Omnium Sanctorum
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