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Title page and colophon. <em>Viaje de Hierusalem</em>. Francisco Guerrero. Córdoba: [Diego Galván], [c.1596]
First printed edition in Cordoba of El viage de Hierusalem by Francisco Guerrero (c. 1596)

The first Cordovan edition of Francisco Guerrero's El viaje de Hierusalem has neither date nor …

Aug. 30, 2023
signature of the minstrels of Mairena del Alcor (1620)
Creation of a company of minstrels in the Mairena del Alcor (1618-1660)

In 1618 the council of Mairena del Alcor, a town belonging to the lordship of …

Aug. 26, 2023
<em>Missarum liber primus</em>. Cristóbal de Morales (Roma, 1544), fols. 1v-2r
Printed works by Spanish composers or printed in Spain in the Music Library of the Ducal Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua (1611)

An inventory of the music library at the ducal basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantua …

Aug. 13, 2023
Letras para cantar una niña a una que entraba religiosa en San Cristóbal
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of San Cristóbal in Valencia

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of San Cristóbal in …

Aug. 12, 2023

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The black dancer Francisco Meneses (†1687)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
31-12-2021

A poetic jácara from 1687 brings us closer to the black musicians who sang and danced in the cities and towns of the Hispanic crowns during the Modern Age.

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Sebastián de Vivanco and the musical libraries

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Michael Noone
06-12-2021

On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de Vivanco left important positions: first when he exchanged the post of chapelmaster at Ávila cathedral …

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