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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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Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Bibliothèque National de France

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Paris TGN
March 9, 2021

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Bibliothèque National de France.

mapping Francisco Guerrero printed works by Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero. Liber primus missarum (1565/1566) [G 4870] Francisco Guerrero. Missarum liber secundus (1582) [G 4872] Miguel de Fuenllana. Orphenica lyra [1554-22] Sacrarum Symphoniarum [B/I 1600-2] Francisco Guerrero. El viaje de Jerusalén Francisco Guerrero (composer, chapel master) Gaetano Gaspari (composer, bibliographer) Bibliothèque National de France. Richelieu site Bibliothèque National de France. Tolbiac site
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First testimonies about the wind players in Palencia cathedral (1553-1569)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Palencia TGN
March 7, 2021

First testimonies about the wind players in Palencia cathedral (1553-1569).

mapping incorporation wind player ensembles recruitment of musicians buying an instrument shawm AAT feast of Saint Francis mass AAT vespers cathedral chapter Juan Andrés (dulcian player) Tomé Cabeza (dulcian player) Juan Vázquez (wind player) Juan Montoya (sackbut player) dulcian player sackbut player cathedral de San Antolín convent of San Francisco
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Bullfights and juegos de cañas at the Plaza Mayor in Valladolid (1592)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Valladolid TGN
March 6, 2021

On July 11, 1592, on the occasion of the visit of Felipe II to Valladolid, the city entertained the monarch with bullfights and juegos de cañas that took place in …

bullfights AAT juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) pyrotechnic devices AAT street music heraldic music bustle in the street sound of animals Felipe II (king) ULAN Jean de L'Hermite (valet to King Felipe II) Enrique Cock (royal archer) city council AAT citizens AAT Juan Téllez-Girón y Guzmán (2nd Duke of Osuna Pedro de Toledo (5th Marquis de Villafranca) Luis III Enríquez de Cabrera Mendoza (8th Admiral of Castile, 4th Duke of Medina de Rioseco) Plaza Mayor
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Villancicos (secular songs) for Christmas Matins in the Santa Capilla of the church of San Andrés in Jaén (1695)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Jaén TGN
Feb. 25, 2021

The location of a printed sheet from 1695 allows us to know the texts of the villancicos (secular songs) composed by the chapelmaster Juan Benito López Contreras to be sung …

Christmas song (villancico) AAT Christmas songs (villancicos) matins of the feast of the Nativity of Jesus confraternities project Marian confraternities Gutierre González Doncel (presbyter, protonotary apostolic) Juan Benito López de Contreras (tenor singer, chapel master, composer) confratenity of the Pure Conception of Our Lady Pilar de D. Ambrosio street church of San Andrés
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Trumpets in the service of Francisco de Montejo, adelantado and governor of Yucatán (1527)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Santa María de la Victoria
Feb. 21, 2021

The trumpets Gaspar Vallés, Juan Alonso, and Pedro Fernández participated in the enterprise of the conquest of Yucatán (Mexico), carried out by Francisco Montejo.

street music heraldic music Francisco de Montejo, el Adelantado (governor of Yucatán) Francisco de Montejo, el Mozo Gaspar Vallés (trumpet) Juan Alonso (trumpet) Pedro Fernández (trumpet) trumpets AAT unknown location Montejo house
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Instruments for the Porta Coeli convent in Valladolid (1618)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Valladolid TGN
Feb. 21, 2021

In 1618, Rodrigo Calderón, 1st Marquis of Siete Iglesias, patron of the Porta Coeli convent in Valladolid, commissioned the purchase of flutes and cornettos from Fray Diego de la Fuente, …

buying an instrument women and musical networks project Rodrigo Calderón, 1st. Marquin of Siete Iglesias) Diego Sarmiento de Acuña (1st. Count of Gondomar nuns AAT Bassano (musicians, woodwind maker) convent of Porta Coeli (Conceptionists nuns)
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Confraternities at the Hospital of Corpus Christi

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Feb. 20, 2021

Confraternities at the Hospital of Corpus Christi.

confraternities project confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament confraternities of the Souls in Purgatory confraternities with other avocations open confraternities procession AAT mass AAT confraternity of the Corpus Christi of Mercy and Blessed Souls of Purgatory Antonio de Cáceres Eduardo Correa Corpus Christi's hospital
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A fortepiano built in Manila for Queen María Luisa de Parma (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Manila TGN
Feb. 19, 2021

In 1793, Fray Diego de la Virgen del Carmen, a discalced Augustinian monk, built a fortepiano in his convent in Manila (Philippines), with several newly invented registers, which was sent …

piano AAT musical instrument making Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León ( Governor-General of the Philippines) María Luisa de Parma (Queen) convent of San Agustín (Discalced Augustinians) Real Alcázar of Madrid ULAN
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Jusepe Martínez de Ávila, dance teacher (fl. 1618-1638)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Jaén TGN
Feb. 17, 2021

Jusepe Martínez de Ávila, cloth weaver, was an active “author of dances” in the city of Jaén and other nearby towns between 1618 and 1638. During this period, he was …

feast of Corpus Christi octave of Corpus Christi procession AAT dances AAT Jusepe Martínez de Ávila (cloth weaver, dance teacher) dance teacher city council AAT dances Cuesta de la Trinidad Cathedral of the Asunción de Nuestra Señora Maestra Alta street convent of San José (Discalced Carmelites) Santa María square Magdalena square Maestra Baja street Merced Baja street Obispo street Parrilla street
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Ropewalkers in the Alcázar square in Madrid (1596)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Madrid TGN
Feb. 14, 2021

Description by Jean de L'Hermite, valet to King Philip II, of the acrobatics and games performed by a group of Italian ropewalkers in the Plaza del Alcázar in Madrid in …

acrobatics AAT street music bustle in the street Jean de L'Hermite (valet to King Felipe II) ropewalkers musicians crowd Felipe II (king) ULAN Alcázar square
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