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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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Songs at the convent of San José

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

The contrafacta or sacred parodies composed and sung by Luisa de San José in the convent of San José in Granada are a good example of the music performed in …

songs AAT women and musical networks project Luisa de San José (= Luisa de Granada Altamirano, nun, Discalced Carmelite) nuns AAT convent of San José (Discalced Carmelites nuns)
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New bells (1529)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015
bell Toribio Gómez (bell maker) convent of San Gregorio Bético (Clerics Regular Minor)
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New bell (1529)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015
bell Toribio Gómez (bell maker) church of San Cristóbal
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New bell (1535)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015
bell Juan Morel (bell maker) church of San Cecilio
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The first reference to the organ in the convent of la Concepción (1620)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

The admission of an organist to the Convent of La Concepción in 1620 provides us with the first record of the existence of an organ in this Franciscan monastery in …

to play the organ women and musical networks project organist AAT nuns AAT convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary)
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Burial of the nuns of the convent of the Ángel Custodio

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

Fray Tomás Montalvo, biographer of Sister Beatriz María de Jesús, records the news of her burial, as well as that of another nun of the convent of the Ángel Custodio, …

burial AAT funeral rites sermon AAT salve women and musical networks project Beatriz María de Jesús (= Beatriz de Enciso, nun, Franciscan) Jacinta María de Jesús (nun, Franciscan) Rodrigo Marín Rubio (canon, maestrescuela, bishop) nuns AAT Martín de Ascargorta (archbishop) cathedral chapter Royal Chancery nobility citizens AAT convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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Religious profession of Sister Beatriz María de Jesús (1666)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

Sister Beatriz María de Jesús was professed in the convent of the Ángel Custodio in Granada in June 1666, in a crowded ceremony solemnised by a chapel of music, probably …

mass AAT vespers religious profession women and musical networks project music chapel of the cathedral Beatriz María de Jesús (= Beatriz de Enciso, nun, Franciscan) nuns AAT Jerónimo de Prado Verastegui (canon) Alonso Gordo (monk, Franciscan) convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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Corpus Christi octave

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015
octave of Corpus Christi mass AAT Pange lingua (hymn) procession AAT music chapel of the cathedral convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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Singing of endechas at the convent of the Angel Custodio (1665)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

Fray Tomás Montalvo, biographer of Beatriz María de Jesús, abbess of the convent of the Ángel Custodio in Granada, gives us news of her fondness for music and of the …

endechas Pange lingua (hymn) women and musical networks project Beatriz María de Jesús (= Beatriz de Enciso, nun, Franciscan) nuns AAT convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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Feast of the dedication of the new church of the convent of the Angel Custodio (1661)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

In June 1661, the dedication of the new church of the Franciscan convent of Ángel Custodio took place. The celebrations lasted twelve days with the cathedral's music chapel and the …

dedication of a church procession AAT mass AAT vespers bustle in the street sermon AAT music chapel of the cathedral music chapel of the capilla real crowd José Argáiz (archbishop) cathedral chapter city council AAT Tribunal of the Inquisition Royal Chancery convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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