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Church of the convent of Santa Inés in Sevilla. Picture by José Becerra
Villancicos for the convent of Santa Inés in Seville (1634)

In the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua, in Puebla, there is the only known copy …

Oct. 25, 2023
Jaffa. David Roberts (1839)
Jaffa, seventh stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

Jaffa, seventh stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588).

Oct. 23, 2023
Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne
Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by Antonio Blado in Rome (1559)

Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by Antonio Blado in Rome (1559).

Oct. 22, 2023
Convento de la Santísima Trinidad de Valencia
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of La Santísima Trinidad in Valencia

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of La Santísima Trinidad …

Oct. 21, 2023

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Music lessons at the convent of San Leandro in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

Francisco Pacheco, biographer and portraitist of the organist Francisco Peraza (I), provides us with news of two of his outstanding pupils, "las Alcázares", "berberiscas", who were professed as musical nuns …

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The soundscape of the Carrera del Darro in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

The chronicler Francisco Henríquez de Jorquera, in his description of Granada's Carrera del Darro, provides us with different elements of its characteristic soundscape, in which the sound of the minstrels …

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Music of minstrels in the square of the Puerta de Guadix in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

In the neighborhood of the Axares, at the beginning of the 17th century, the space that bordered the Darro River was remodeled to form the Plaza de la Puerta de …

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Hydraulic organ in the Alcázar's gardens

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

One of the most outstanding elements of the soundscape in the gardens of the Reales Alcázares is the fountain of Fame or the Organ, which is attached to the Grutesco …

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