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“Ángeles, Belen y Cuevas”. José Vicente Ortí y Mayor
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Valencia (1722)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

May 20, 2023
Title page. Francisco Guerrero. <em>El viage de Hierusalem</em>. Valencia: herederos de Juan Navarro, 1593.
The first Valencian edition of El Viage de Hierusalem (1593) by Francisco Guerrero

The first Valencian edition of El Viage de Hierusalem (1593) by Francisco Guerrero came from …

May 6, 2023
Chapel of the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Confraternities at the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra

Confraternities at the convent of San Francisco de la Alhambra.

May 3, 2023
Facade of the convent of San Francisco. Ventura Pérez (c. 1760)
Testament of Pedro López, guitar maker (1671)

The will of the guitar maker Pedro López (17/10/1671) provides us with some biographical information, …

May 2, 2023

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Last organ of the convent of San José in Granada (1904)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
17-08-2018

The organ of the convent of San José was built in Malaga Cathedral by Aquiles Ghys in 1904 and inaugurated on 8 December of that year.

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Moorish dances and songs in the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada (1526)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
11-08-2018

Johannes Lange de Löwenberg, physician to the Elector of the Palatinate, Archduke Friedrich von Wittelsbach, provides us with an extraordinary account of the dances performed by a group of Moorish …

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Last organ of the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Granada (1836)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-08-2018

After the disentailment of Church properties, in 1836, the priest of the parish of Santa Isabel de Huetor Tajar (Granada) requested the organ from the Mercedarian convent of Nuestra Señora …

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Dilettante musicians and street romances in seventeenth-century Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
03-08-2018

The biography of the anchorite Francisco Velasco (Baza, 1577-Granada, 1622) allows us to approach two facets of the soundscape of Granada: domestic music and the performance of popular songs in …

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