Historical soundscapes (c.1200

Festival organized by the Real Maestranza of Granada during the carnival (1746)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Granada

01-03-2017

On Carnival Sunday 1746 (20 February), the Real Maestranza of the city of Granada, which was under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, organised a series of festivities as a …

juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) carnival dances contradanza sound of the water Real Maestranza of Granada horn player oboist drum player nobility clarion player violin player Triumph of Our Lady convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary) unknown location

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Feast of the Forty Hours devotion (1601-1753)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Seville

27-02-2017

Forty Hours devotion carnival vespers mass of the Conception of Our Lady motet Christmas song (villancico) psalm hymn Pange lingua (hymn) pyrotechnic devices procession sacred concert congregation of the priests of the Immaculate Conception music chapel of the cathedral wind players clarion player casa profesa de la Compañía de Jesús

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Taverns in Seville in 1599

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Seville

20-02-2017

Taverns were a favourable setting for the performance of popular music, as is reflected in the painting Three Musicians (c. 1617), one of the youthful works of the Sevillian painter …

music in taverns Diego Cuelbis (German traveler) musicians Sol street various places

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Funeral rites of the Queen María Amalia de Sajonia in the convent of la Concepción (1760)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Granada

19-02-2017

funeral rites Real Maestranza of Granada music chapel of the cathedral convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary)

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Wind player in the nao (ship) of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, captain galleon of the West Indies Fleet (1635)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Seville

18-02-2017

naval music Juan Fernández (wind player) Pedro Sánchez (wind player) Juan de la Rosa (wind player) Pedro de Sambuxa (wind player) Juan Gómez (town crier) dulcian player shawn player Guadalquivir river collegiate church of San Salvador church of San Juan de la Palma Lonja square

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Loan of a small organ (“realejo”) and data for its history

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Granada

12-02-2017

mass vespers portative organ to tune the organ organ repair Pedro Luis de Pastrana (organist) Nicolás Huerta (organist) Miguel de Herrera (organ builder) chapter of the capilla real Juan Félix Marcián / Martínez (organ builder) Antonio Navarrete (main chaplain) Tomás Pabón I (organ builder) convent of Jesús y María (Capuchin Franciscans) royal chapel capilla real. Chapel of San Miguel capilla real. Low choir convent of San Antonio Abad (San Antón) (Regular Third Order) convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)

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Burial of the organist José Muñoz de Montserrat (1762)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Seville

09-02-2017

burial requiem mass matins for the dead (= vigil) José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Juan Roldán (organist) cathedral chapter music chapel of the cathedral church of Santa Cruz Sevilla cathedral cathedral of Sevilla. Choir Botica de las Aguas square

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Zawiyya in the Albaicín

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Granada

04-02-2017

In the first half of the 14th century, the Banu Sidi Buna family established a zawiyya (= marabout) in the upper part of the Albaicín that survived until the capture of the city …

coranic psalmody dhikr (= zikr) Ibn Sidi Bunuh (Sufi writer) Yusuf I (Sultan of Granada) devotional orders (tarîqât) minstrels the Albaicín

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Miserere for the convent of Santa Clara (1753)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Seville

01-02-2017

Miserere mei Deus (psalm 51) sacred triduum José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Manuel Blasco de Nebra (composer, organist) Domingo Arquimbau (composer, chapel master) Joaquín Montero (composer, organist, pianist) music chapel of the convent of Santa Clara convent of Santa Clara (Franciscans)

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos, 1730)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez

Granada

29-01-2017

feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos) Christmas song (villancico) mass music chapel college of Santa Catalina

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Historical soundscapes (c.1200 – c.1800)

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Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Libraries of the couvent des Minimes and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris

First printed edition in Cordoba of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (c. 1596)

Creation of a company of minstrels in the Mairena del Alcor (1618-1660)

Printed works by Spanish composers or printed in Spain in the Music Library of the Ducal Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua (1611)

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Festival organized by the Real Maestranza of Granada during the carnival (1746)

Feast of the Forty Hours devotion (1601-1753)

Taverns in Seville in 1599

Funeral rites of the Queen María Amalia de Sajonia in the convent of la Concepción (1760)

Wind player in the nao (ship) of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, captain galleon of the West Indies Fleet (1635)

Loan of a small organ (“realejo”) and data for its history

Burial of the organist José Muñoz de Montserrat (1762)

Zawiyya in the Albaicín

Miserere for the convent of Santa Clara (1753)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos, 1730)