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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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Feast of the Taking of Granada: I. The civic and religious feast

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Jan. 2, 2016

The regulation of the celebration of the religious festivity of the Taking of Granada in the cathedral took shape shortly after the erection of this institution in 1492. Over time, …

bustle in the street bell artillery salute fireworks AAT street music bullfights AAT juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) to play the organ Te deum laudamus (hymn) Benedictus magnificat mass AAT Christmas song (villancico) AAT feast of the Taking of Granada cathedral chapter chapter of the capilla real city council AAT bell-ringer drummers AAT artillery AAT trumpeter AAT music chapel of the cathedral cathedral of La Encarnación cathedral of Granada. Choir Alhambra (fortress) TGN castle of Maurón (Torres Bermejas) castle of Bibataubín Elvira gate Bibarrambla square cathedral of Granada. Old choir
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