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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
Hospital of La Misericordia. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Confraternities at the hospital of La Misericordia in Granada

Confraternities at the hospital of La Misericordia in Granada.

Aug. 11, 2023
Zante Island.  Donato Bertelli (c. 1574)
Zante, fifth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

Zante, fifth stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

Aug. 10, 2023
View of the choir and main chapel of Seville Cathedral from the archiepiscopal chair
Lyrics by José Vicente Ortí y Mayor for the villancicos of the cathedral of Seville (1727-1737)

In the decade of 1727-1737, Pedro Rabassa received in Seville several texts of villancicos from …

Aug. 9, 2023

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Wind players in the West Indies Fleet (1620)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-12-2015

The galleons that captained the fleet of the Indies carried among their crews several salaried minstrels. Jerónimo Franco, a ministril, embarked on the nao almiranta which in 1620 went "to …

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Feast of the Conception of Our Lady in the convent of Santo Tomás de Villanueva

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
14-11-2015

In the convent of Santo Tomás de Villanueva, commonly known as Tomasas, the nuns celebrate on 8 December a particular ceremony typical of this female monastery in Granada, which probably …

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