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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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Domestic music at the house of Hernando Colón

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

Hernando Colón (1488-1539), second son of the discoverer Cristóbal Colón, was able to begin his musical instruction during the years in which he served as page for Prince Juan. The …

domestic music making music library Hernando Colón (bibliophile, cosmographer) harpsichord player clavichord player vihuela player Santa Clara street Armas street house of Hernando de Colón
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Feast of the Taking of Granada: III. Liturgical Office and Mass of the Taking of Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

After the capture of Granada in 1492, Archbishop Hernando de Talavera, Queen Isabella's confessor and advisor, composed an Office and a Mass to commemorate this emblematic military victory in the …

mass AAT divine office feast of the Taking of Granada women and musical networks project Hernando de Talavera (first archbishop of Granada) Isabel l (queen) royal chapel collegiate church of el Sacromonte convent of Santa Paula (Jeronimites nuns) convent of la Encarnación (Franciscans nuns) convent of Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Calced Carmelites nuns) convent of San Bernardo (Cistercians Order) cathedral (first site) cathedral of Granada. Choir cathedral of Granada. Old choir convent of San Jerónimo (Jeronimites) cathedral (second site) cathedral (third site) cathedral of La Encarnación
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Vigil and a Requiem Mass (1539)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
litany AAT matins for the dead (= vigil) requiem mass Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera (I Marquis of Tarifa) church of Omnium Sanctorum church of San Andrés church of San Esteban church of San Gil church of San Isidoro church of San Juan de la Palma church of San Julián church of San Lorenzo church of San Marcos church of San Martín church of San Miguel church of San Nicolás church of San Pedro church of San Vicente church of Santa Catalina church of Santa Lucía church of Santa María Magdalena church of Santa Marina church of Santiago church of San Román church of San Ildefonso church of San Bartolomé church of Santa María la Blanca church of Santa Cruz
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Vigil and a Requiem Mass

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015
matins for the dead (= vigil) requiem mass Andrés Espinosa (priest) ministers (deacon and subdeacon) church of San Gil
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Mock tournaments fought with bulrushes (juegos de cañas) at the Lobos' square

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

In the expansion area of the Christian city, in the 16th century, the Plaza de los Lobos was laid out. Square in shape, it was the site of sporadic juegos …

juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) bustle in the street street music crowd trumpeter AAT drum players wind players los Lobos square
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Public festivals at the Campo del Príncipe

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

In 1513, the city council prepared the space known today as Campo del Príncipe to form a recreational square in which jousting, tournaments, tournaments rings, etc., events in which trumpets, …

bullfights AAT juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) joust tournaments to run the ring quintain AAT ballgame bustle in the street street music crowd trumpeter AAT drummers AAT drum players wind players campo del Príncipe
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Salve at the Cristo de los Favores in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

In 1640, a group of neighbours from the Realejo quarter, parishioners of the church of San Cecilio, set up a stone cross in the Realejo Alto square with the image …

salve bustle in the street feast of the Invention (Discovery) of the Holy Cross confraternities of Holy Week open confraternities confraternities project street music music chapel crowd confraternity of the Christ of Favours Realejo alto square campo del Príncipe
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Minstrels and trumpeters of the city of Sevilla (1400-1410)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The papers of the Mayordomazgo of the city of Seville corresponding to the decade from 1400 to 1410, allow us to confirm the stable hiring of a group of at …

civic music buying an instrument trumpet AAT street music military parade announcement AAT Juan Fernández (trumpeter) Pedro García (trumpeter) Gonzalo Fernández (wind player) Esteban Sánchez (wind player) Aparicio Rodríguez (wind player) trumpeter AAT minstrels of the city council Luisejo (trumpeter) Alonso Martínez (trumpeter, minstrel) Juan Rodríguez (trumpeter) Antón Pinzón (trumpeter of Alvar Pérez de Guzmán) Juan López (trumpeter) Guillén Coque (kettledrummer) casas del cabildo municipal / Corral de los Olmos (old town hall)
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Trumpeters of the city of Seville (1385)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2015

The papers of the Mayordomazgo of the city of Seville corresponding to the 14th century are very fragmentary and therefore do not allow us to know precisely when the incorporation …

civic music street music Juan Fernández (trumpeter) Fernán Martínez (trumpeter) Juan Alonso (trumpeter) Alonso Martínez (trumpeter, minstrel) trumpeter AAT casas del cabildo municipal / Corral de los Olmos (old town hall)
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Inventory of instruments (1500)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 11, 2015

On 20 September 1500, Sancho de Paredes, chamberlain to Queen Isabella the Catholic, received and made an inventory in Granada of a series of musical instruments that were to be …

organ AAT harpsichord AAT claviorgan AAT clavichord AAT horn women and musical networks project Isabel l (queen) Nasrid palaces (Alhambra)
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