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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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Sacred songs for the profession of a monk in the convent of Santa Eulalia de Sarriá (1689)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
01-11-2021

On 18 August 1689, the music chapel of Barcelona Cathedral performed four villancicos, probably composed by Juan Barter, its chapel master, at the profession ceremony of Benito Gregorio Castellet in …

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Performances by the Toledo Cathedral Music Chapel in the Alcázar (1677-1679)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
21-10-2021

During the stay in Toledo of the Queen Mother Mariana of Austria (1677-1679), the Toledo Cathedral music chapel performed on numerous occasions in the solemnisation of religious festivities celebrated in …

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A claviorgan in the Palacio de las Cigueñas (1546)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-10-2021

A contract published by Pilar Barrios Manzano, in 1980, allows us to learn about the transformation of a harpsichord into a claviorgan, which took place in Cáceres in 1546.

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