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<em>Feast of Our Lady of the Forest</em>. Denis van Alsloot (1616). Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Soundscape of a court party in Vivier d'Oye (1615)

The iconographic representation of a courtly feast that the Archdukes Albert and Isabel Clara Eugenia, …

Nov. 12, 2023
Choir of Coria's cathedral. Picture by Rafael Gómez
Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the cathedral of Coria (1593-1600)

Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the cathedral of Coria (1593-1600).

Nov. 10, 2023
Cloister of the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced in Cartagena de Indias
Organist of the convent of La Merced in Cartagena de Indias (1773)

A letter from Father José Antonio Montaño, "comendador" of the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

Nov. 1, 2023
Madrid. Anton van den Wyngaerde (1562)
Musicians and luthiers resident in Madrid (1625)

The Libro de los nombres y calles de Madrid sobre que se paga incómodas y …

Oct. 28, 2023

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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