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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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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

 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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