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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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The first reference to the organ in the collegiate church of San Salvador (c. 1528)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 17, 2016
organ AAT to play the organ A. Ruiz (¿organist?) Garci Sánchez (organista) collegiate church of San Salvador
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The Cromberger atelier, publishing printer and bookseller

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 15, 2016
print of books diverse noises AAT Jacome Cromberger (publishing printer, bookseller) Juan Cromberger (publishing printer, book) Cromberger's atelier
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The first reference to the organ in the capilla real (1518/1521)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 14, 2016

The first reference to the establishment of the post of organist in the Capilla Real of Granada dates from the second endowment of this institution in 1518. Most probably, it …

organ AAT to play the organ Juan Bermudo (music theorist, composer, Friar minor) Vela Núñez (organist) Bernardino de Figueroa [Osorio] (composer, chapel master, singer, royal chaplain, archbishop) capilla real. Organ stall royal chapel
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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the mosque of Masda ibn Damun in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 9, 2016

The call to prayer of the muezzin, repeated five times a day, was one of the essential elements of the soundscape of Muslim Granada, to which we can add the …

the call to prayer by a muezzin coranic psalmody sound of the water muezzin AAT water mosque Masda ibn Damun islamic primary school (Masda ibn Damun)
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The sound of the water and birds in the Alameda de Hércules

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 8, 2016

In 1574, the Feria lagoon was remodelled to turn it into one of the most important recreational areas in the city of Seville. The installation of three fountains and several …

sound of the water animal sounds water birds alameda de Hércules
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Wedding party of the painter Diego Velazquez in the house of Francisco Pacheco (1618)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 5, 2016
weddings AAT Francisco Pacheco (painter, writer) ULAN singer AAT Juana Pacheco Diego Velázquez (painter) house workshop of Francisco Pacheco church of San Miguel
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Sufi music in streets, souks and squares of the Albaicín (c. 1240)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 4, 2016
street music Abu Hasan Al Shushtari (poet, musician, mystic sufi) minstrels devotional orders (tarîqât) the Albaicín TGN
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Dedication of the new church of the convent of San Agustín (1612)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 3, 2016
dedication of a church vespers mass AAT music chapel of the cathedral convent of San Agustín (augustinians)
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The sound of water and the bustle of Granada's Plaza Larga

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 2, 2016

The sound of water and the hustle and bustle of Granada's Plaza Larga, an urban space that was reorganised and brought to life in the last quarter of the 16th …

sound of the water bustle in the street market animal sounds diverse noises AAT comercial activity crowd water Larga square (Almajura)
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Domestic music at the Sevillian houses of the Nebra family (1735-1785)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 1, 2016
domestic music making José Blasco de Nebra (composer, organist) Manuel Blasco de Nebra (composer, organist) Nebra's house (1) Nebra's house (2)
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