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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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Keyboard music at the convent of Santa Clara in Sevilla (1)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 27, 2019

A keyboard manuscript from the archives of the convent of Santa Clara in Seville gives us an insight into the transfer of the secular repertoire from the domestic sphere to …

domestic music making copying music women and musical networks project María del Patrocinio Chacón y Carrillo de Albornoz nuns AAT convent of Santa Clara (Franciscans) parish of San Vicente
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Organs for the Franciscan convents of Guatemala (1598)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Ciudad Vieja TGN
July 25, 2019

In 1598, Fray Antonio Tineo contracted the Flemish organ builder Enrique Franco in Seville to build three organs for the Franciscan province of the Santísimo Nombre de Jesús in Guatemala: …

organ AAT Antonio Tineo (Franciscan) Enrique Franco (organ builder) Francisco Pérez de Cabrera (organist) convento of San Francisco convent of Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de Almolonga
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Prices of vihuela strings, various instruments and pyrotechnic material in Granada (1627)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 23, 2019

The Tasas de mercaderías printed in Madrid and Granada, in accordance with the royal pragmatic published in Madrid on 13 September 1627, whose purpose was to try to curb speculation …

selling musical accessories sale of vihuela strings selling of instruments pyrotechnic devices AAT merchants guild various places
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Feast of All Souls at the church of San Justo y Pastor in Granada (1670)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 22, 2019

The confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the church of San Justo y Pastor celebrated the feast of the Souls in Purgatory every year on 2 November. As was customary, …

matins for the dead (= vigil) chaplaincy of masses feast of the Blessed Souls of Purgatory the pealing of bells sermon AAT confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament confraternities project priest AAT preacher acolytes AAT bell-ringer ministers (deacon and subdeacon) Juan Garcés Marzillán (alto) confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of the church of San Justo y Pastor church of San Justo y Pastor
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Music in secular and regular institutions in Goa (1663)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Goa TGN
July 17, 2019

In the 1660s, the Discalced Carmelite Giuseppe di Santa Maria travelled to Goa (India) for the second time. In his chronicle of the trip, he gives an account of the …

feast of Sant Ignatius of Loyola mass AAT vespers litany AAT Giuseppe di Santa Maria (bishop, missionary, discalced carmelite) music chapel organist AAT harpist AAT violin player college of São Paulo / basilica Bom Jesus church and convent of St. Francis Assisi church of Santo Agostinho (= convent and church of Nossa Senhora da Graça) various places
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Music by Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in the soundscape of Goa (1588)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Goa TGN
July 15, 2019

In the last quarter of the 16th century, the music of Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina dominated the soundscape of St Paul's College in …

mass AAT vespers lamentations hymn AAT psalm AAT magnificat motet songs AAT purchase of a book of polyphony mapping Francisco Guerrero printed works by Francisco Guerrero Lazzaro Cattaneo (Jesuit missionary) music chapel Francisco Guerrero (composer, chapel master) Tomás Luis de Victoria (composer) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (composer) Annibale Stabile (composer) college of São Paulo / basilica Bom Jesus
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Spanish sacred music and instrumental music in São Paulo de Loanda (1578)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Luanda TGN
July 11, 2019

In 1578, only two years after the foundation of the Portuguese colony of Luanda, the first European-style musical structures had already been created. Probably in its first church, the Missa …

mass AAT music education music lessons Missa cortilla (= Missa super fa re ut fa sol la) Andreas Christi famulos (motet) Pange lingua (hymn) hymn AAT mapping Francisco Guerrero Paulo Dias de Novais (explorator, Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola) Loronha (musician) Cristóbal de Morales (composer, chapel master, singer) Francisco Guerrero (composer, chapel master) singers AAT wind players Society of Jesus AAT Garcia Simões (Jesuit) various places iglesia de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição (= Nossa Senhora do Cabo)
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Votive endowment of Guiomar Caro at the church of San Andrés in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
July 9, 2019

Guiomar Caro's pious endowment exemplifies the memorials instituted in the church of San Andrés, in Granada, at the beginning of the 17th century. They consisted of the vespers service and …

vespers mass AAT feast of Our Lady of the Peace feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary feast of the Transfixion of Our Lady feast of the Incarnation (= Annunciation) feast of the Visitation of Our Lady to her cousin St. Elizabeth AAT feast of Saint Mary of the Snows feast of the Assumption of Our Lady feast of the Nativity of Our Lady feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary feast of the Conception of Mary AAT feast of the Expectation (= Our Lady of the O) Guiomar Caro ministers (deacon and subdeacon) preacher organist AAT church of San Andrés
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Annual procession to the church of San Isidoro the second day of Rogations in Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
July 5, 2019

The procession that Seville Cathedral organised on the second day of Rogations (Tuesday before Ascension Day) to the church of San Isidoro was one of the oldest in the annual …

procession AAT mass AAT litany AAT Quis vestrum habebit amicum (motete) mapping Francisco Guerrero cathedral chapter music chapel of the cathedral wind players church of San Isidoro cathedral of Santa María de la Sede
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Visit of Prince Felipe to the Imperial Navy in Rosas and boarding for Genoa (1548)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Rosas TGN
July 4, 2019

In 1548, Prince Philip set out on a long journey that would take him around what was to become his future dominions. On 20 October, he arrived in Rosas (Gerona) …

naval music artillery salute musket salute Felipe II (king) ULAN Andrea Doria (imperial admiral) wind players trumpeter AAT Antonio de Cabezón (composer, organist) music chapel of the Prince Felipe, son of Charles I of Spain Trinidad castle Rosas harbour
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