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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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Festival organized by the Real Maestranza of Granada during the carnival (1746)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
March 1, 2017

On Carnival Sunday 1746 (20 February), the Real Maestranza of the city of Granada, which was under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, organised a series of festivities as a …

juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) carnival AAT dances AAT contradanza sound of the water Real Maestranza of Granada horn player oboist AAT drummers AAT nobility clarion player violin player Triumph of Our Lady convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary) unknown location
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Feast of the Forty Hours devotion (1601-1753)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Feb. 27, 2017
Forty Hours devotion carnival AAT vespers mass of the Conception of Our Lady motet Christmas song (villancico) AAT psalm AAT hymn AAT Pange lingua (hymn) pyrotechnic devices AAT procession AAT sacred concert congregation of the priests of the Immaculate Conception music chapel of the cathedral wind players clarion player casa profesa de la Compañía de Jesús
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Taverns in Seville in 1599

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Feb. 20, 2017

Taverns were a favourable setting for the performance of popular music, as is reflected in the painting Three Musicians (c. 1617), one of the youthful works of the Sevillian painter …

music in taverns Diego Cuelbis (German traveler) musicians Sol street various places
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Funeral rites of the Queen María Amalia de Sajonia in the convent of la Concepción (1760)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Feb. 19, 2017
funeral rites Real Maestranza of Granada music chapel of the cathedral convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary)
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Wind player in the nao (ship) of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, captain galleon of the West Indies Fleet (1635)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Feb. 18, 2017
naval music Juan Fernández (wind player) Pedro Sánchez (wind player) Juan de la Rosa (wind player) Pedro de Sambuxa (wind player) Juan Gómez (town crier) dulcian player shawn player Guadalquivir river TGN collegiate church of San Salvador church of San Juan de la Palma Lonja square
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Loan of a small organ (“realejo”) and data for its history

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Feb. 12, 2017
mass AAT vespers portative organ AAT to tune the organ organ repair Pedro Luis de Pastrana (organist) Nicolás Huerta (organist) Miguel de Herrera (organ builder) chapter of the capilla real Juan Félix Marcián / Martínez (organ builder) Antonio Navarrete (main chaplain) Tomás Pabón I (organ builder) convent of Jesús y María (Capuchin Franciscans) royal chapel capilla real. Chapel of San Miguel capilla real. Low choir convent of San Antonio Abad (San Antón) (Regular Third Order) convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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Burial of the organist José Muñoz de Montserrat (1762)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Feb. 9, 2017
burial AAT requiem mass matins for the dead (= vigil) José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Juan Roldán (organist) cathedral chapter music chapel of the cathedral church of Santa Cruz cathedral of Santa María de la Sede cathedral of Sevilla. Choir Botica de las Aguas square
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Zawiyya in the Albaicín

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Feb. 4, 2017

In the first half of the 14th century, the Banu Sidi Buna family established a&nbsp;zawiyya&nbsp;(=&nbsp;marabout) in the upper part of the Albaicín that survived until the capture of the city …

coranic psalmody dhikr (= zikr) Ibn Sidi Bunuh (Sufi writer) Yusuf I (Sultan of Granada) devotional orders (tarîqât) minstrels the Albaicín TGN
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Miserere for the convent of Santa Clara (1753)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Feb. 1, 2017
Miserere mei Deus (psalm 51) sacred triduum José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Manuel Blasco de Nebra (composer, organist) Domingo Arquimbau (composer, chapel master) Joaquín Montero (composer, organist, pianist) music chapel of the convent of Santa Clara convent of Santa Clara (Franciscans)
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos, 1730)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Jan. 29, 2017
feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos) Christmas song (villancico) AAT mass AAT music chapel college of Santa Catalina
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