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convent de Santa Helena do Monte Calvário. Picture by David Freitas (1960)
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)
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]
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
Will of the ministril Francisco González Dávila (1654)

The will of the ministril and dulcian player Francisco González Dávila provides us with his …

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Diego Díaz, first town crier of the city of Santiago de Guatemala (1527-1530)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 3, 2021

Diego Díaz's appointment as town crier in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was made on the very day of its foundation, 27 July 1524. He remained …

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Diego Díaz, first town crier of the city of Santiago de Guatemala (1524-1527)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 2, 2021

Diego Díaz's appointment as town crier in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala was made on the very day of its foundation, 27 July 1524. He remained …

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Public concert in the hall of the Valencia Shoemakers' Guild (1790)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
June 24, 2021

In the autumn of 1790, the chapel master Angelo di San Michele settled in Valencia. He would soon offer his services as a teacher of singing, harpsichord, forte-piano and psaltery …

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Miserere at the Campo Santo de los Mártires in Córdoba (1633)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
June 4, 2021

On 3 March 1633, the Chapter of Cordoba Cathedral banned the Miserere that was sung at night in the Campo Santo de los Mártires in Cordoba, although we do not …

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