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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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Rules for trumpets and jongleurs in Seville (c. 1337)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
June 2, 2016

The ordinance of the trumpets and minstrels of Seville, made c. 1337, during the reign of Alfonso XI, is the earliest legislative example of which we are aware for a …

weddings AAT alegrías (games and festivities) domestic music making street music city council AAT minstrels trumpeter AAT various places
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Entrance examination to the chapel master position in Granada cathedral (1592)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
May 29, 2016
entrance examination improvised counterpoint conduct the choir motet chanzoneta (secular song, see also Christmas song) Pedro de Castro Cabeza de Vaca y Quiñones (archbishop) cathedral chapter citizens AAT Juan de Riscos (composer, chapel master) Juan Baptista Muñoz (compositor, chapel master) Juan Fernández Garzón (composer, chapel master) Pedro Bermúdez (composer, chapel master) Cristóbal del Mármol (composer) Luis de Aranda (chapel master, composer) cathedral of La Encarnación cathedral of Granada. Old choir cathedral of Granada. Choir
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Fountains in sixteenth-century Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
May 28, 2016
sound of the water water gate of Carmona Carne gate San Francisco square mosque of Ibn Adabbas Gradas street
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Secular music in the choir of the Capilla Real (1566)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
May 28, 2016
to play the organ Francisco Fernández Palero (royal chaplain, composer, organist) capilla real. High choir royal chapel
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Corpus Christi procession in Bibarrambla square (1695)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
May 24, 2016
feast of Corpus Christi procession AAT Christmas song (villancico) AAT bustle in the street city council AAT Royal Chancery crowd music chapel of the cathedral Martín de Ascargorta (archbishop) Bibarrambla square
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The royal entry of Alfonso XI in Seville (1327)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
May 23, 2016

In the entry of King Alfonso XI into Seville (1327), we find interesting festive elements: dances accompanied by instruments, monstrous figures (in which it has been suggested a precedent of …

royal entry AAT dances AAT street music heraldic music naval music naumachia AAT bustle in the street Alfonso XI (king) trumpeter AAT drummers AAT wind players gate of la Macarena Real street Inquisición Vieja street Santa Catalina street Alhóndiga street Tiro street Mesones street Correo Viejo street Corral del Rey street Abades street Gradas street reales alcázares ULAN Guadalquivir river TGN cathedral of Santa María de la Sede
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Organ for the college of San Gregorio or de los ingleses (1599)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
May 22, 2016
organ AAT Juan Picaforte (John Pickford, organist, organ maker) college of San Gregorio or de los ingleses (Jesuits)
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Giants and dragon –tarasca– (1760)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
May 21, 2016

The embellishment and configuration of the tarasca and the personalization of the giants in the Corpus Christi procession could vary from one year to another and in some occasions it …

feast of Corpus Christi procession AAT giants tarasca (dragon) Cárcel street Pescadería street Bibarrambla square Zacatín street Nueva (Hatabín) square Hospitales street
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Altar in Bibarrambla square for the Corpus Christi procession in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
May 19, 2016

The altar in the Plaza de Bibarrambla was the most prominent of the four altars that the city council paid for each year to be placed in emblematic places on …

feast of Corpus Christi procession AAT ephemeral architecture city council AAT music chapel of the cathedral crowd Bibarrambla square
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Toll of the college clock bell of las Becas (1634)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
May 18, 2016
the pealing of bells clock college of las Becas (Jesuits)
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