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On 27 June 1554, Prince Felipe arrived in La Coruña, where he stayed until 13 …
This article complements that of the "Villancicos compuestos para la ceremonia de profesión de monjas …
The convent of Dominican nuns of Santa Catalina Martyr in the city of Ávila (1486-1836) …
In this article we present the contract or deed, granted on February 4, 1619, in …
On March 4, 1529, Teresa Enríquez, Gutierre de Cárdenas's wife, died in her town of Torrijos (Toledo). In her will she establishes, with all precision, how her burial should be …
The music library, or rather the music books that Juan de Borja (1533-1606) kept at his death, were inventoried in 1606 and later appraised by Tomás Luis de Victoria. Among …
A document from the municipal archive of Alicante allows us to know the sale of guitars in la plaza de la Fruta at the end of the 18th century.
Read articleWorks by Francisco Guerrero in the church of Santiago (Valladolid).
The process of incorporating a group of wind players in the Cathedral of Córdoba went through several vicissitudes that made the continuity of their service not stabilize until 1554.
The civil and domestic musical life in Ávila during the 16th century is very little know. Hence the interest of this inventory from 1569, which includes wind, string and keyboard …
In 1553, the Augustinian friar Juan de San Román brought flutes and shawms to Mexico destined for one of the convents in the province of Santísimo Nombre de Jesús, whose …
The wedding between Felipe V and María Luisa Gabriela de Saboya, in 1701, was celebrated in the city of Alicante with a combination of civic and religious elements that, in …
The affiliation of a series of choirbooks preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional to the convent of La Trinidad Calzada in Madrid has also allowed me to locate the only fragment …
Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the Segovia cathedral (1562).