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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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Sale of a vihuela at an auction (1514)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 23, 2017
selling of instruments Francisco Fernández (beneficiary priest) church of Santa Ana
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Sounds in the Diego de Velazquez’s birth house

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 22, 2017
the pealing of bells Diego Velázquez (painter) bell-ringer house of Diego Velazquez
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Sounds in the Archbishop's Palace courtyard

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 18, 2017
sound of the water the pealing of bells water bell-ringer archbishop's palace
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Organ for the church of Ipiales –Colombia– (1585)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 17, 2017

In 1585, Pedro de Henao, chief and governor of Ipiales (Colombia), bought a series of ornaments for the church in that city. Among those objects was an organ that was …

organ AAT pipe organ introduction mapping Pedro de Henao (Native Indian, Governor of the Ipiales and Potosí) Jerónimo de León (organ builder) Asencio Martín (organ builder) Hernando de Tapia (organist) parish of San Martín church of San Pedro mártir
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Wind players escorting the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament to visit the sick.

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 11, 2017

The presence of minstrels accompanying the Viaticum on its urban journeys to visit the sick was a common occurrence in 17th and 18th century Seville, as evidenced by the sacramental …

To visit to the sick by the confraternity of the Holy Sacrament street music the pealing of bells Viaticum procession confraternities project confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament confraternities of the Souls in Purgatory women and musical networks project endowment AAT Eugenia de Valdés confraternity of the Holy Sacrament and the Blessed Souls of Purgatory at the church of San Pedro confraternity of the Holy Sacrament at the church of San Vicente wind players church of San Pedro parish of San Pedro church of San Vicente parish of San Vicente
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Clock bell of the old mudejar cathedral of Sevilla (1400)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 8, 2017
the pealing of bells Alfonso Domínguez (bell maker) bell-ringer Gonzalo de Mena (archbishop) cathedral of Santa María de la Sede cathedral of Sevilla. Bell tower (la Giralda)
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The cloister’s sounds of the convent of Santa Clara

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 8, 2017
sound of the water sound of animals the pealing of bells water birds nuns AAT convent of Santa Clara (Franciscans)
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Wind players in a play at the University (1550)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 6, 2017
comedia (secular play) wind players colegio real (university of Granada)
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Trumpeter of the archbishop of Seville (1385)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 4, 2017

A document issued by the "mayordomazgo" (mayor's office) of the city of Seville, dated 14 April 1385, reveals the name of one of the trumpeters in the service of Pedro …

heraldic music Alfonso Martín (trumpeter) Pedro González Barroso (archbishop) archbishop's palace
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The ring of a little bell for the souls in Purgatory in Triana (1566)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 3, 2017
ringing of a little bell small bell bell-ringer Triana
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