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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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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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