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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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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

 On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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