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Transcription of four chapter agreements and an inventory of singing books from the Cathedral of …
In 1387, Elfa de la Torre, widow of Pedro Muñiz de Godoy, Master of the …
The records of royal orders for the government of the Customs Office of Cádiz, corresponding …
Francisco Guerrero and his pupil Francisco Sánchez must have set out from Venice in early …
The Ordenamiento given by King Alfonso XI for the city of Seville, in 1337, provides us with an interesting indirect testimony of the nocturnal serenades in Seville in the first …
Read articleA document dated 1592, after the Moorish rebellion in Granada in 1568, gives us information about the musical staff of the Collegiate Church of El Salvador in 1537, through the …
The tolling of "del Alba" and "de Queda" were two of the most characteristic bell tolls in the regulation of urban life, both of which were easily recognisable by the …
The bassoon was introduced into the ecclesiastical musical chapels of Granada around 1800.
In 1693, the rules of the confratenity of Our Lady of the Coral, Rosary devotion, St. Joseph and St. Ildefonso were approved. It had its headquarters in the church of …
The inventory made in 1836, when the convent of La Encarnación in Granada was suppressed, included an organ located in the choir loft. This instrument and the tabernacle of the …
Read articleOn 17 May 1623, the Cathedral of Seville celebrated with great solemnity the publication of the Brief of Pope Urban VIII, in which he proclaimed St James the Apostle as …
A file kept in the Archivo Municipal de Granada, which records the conflict of interests between the luthier Francisco Morcillo and the city's luthier’s guild, gives us some interesting details …
On 15 April 1638, the Seville cathedral chapter celebrated for the first time the anniversary it had just instituted in honour of Pope Urban VIII. The vespers of the 15th …
The Archivo Municipal of Granada preserves an extraordinary document that gives us an account of the conflict of interests that must have arisen between the members of the city's luthiers …