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Old cathedral of Cádiz (chuch of Santa Cruz). Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Arrival of books by Tomás Luis de Victoria at the Cádiz Cathedral (1583-1610)

There is news of the shipment of three printed books, plus the possibility that two …

March 6, 2026
<em>Missale cordubensis ecclesiae</em> (1561), calendar: <em>December</em>
Feast of the Translation of Saint James the Apostle in Córdoba Cathedral (1330 / 1443)

The first mention of the feast of the Translation of Saint James the Apostle (30 …

March 2, 2026
Church of Nuestra Señora del Reposo in Campillos (Málaga)
Private endowment of a minstrel's position to accompany the Blessed Sacrament in the town of Campillos (1672)

In 1672, Juan González Ortega, a priest and beneficiado of the church of Campillos (Málaga), …

Feb. 26, 2026
The  Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Leonardo Torriani (1588)
Soundscape on a galleon bound for the Indies (1573)

Eugenio Salazar de Alarcón, governor of the islands of Tenerife and La Palma, in a …

Feb. 23, 2026

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First organ to the church of Padules (Almería)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 28, 2020

The first organ in the church of Padules (Almería) must have been built c. 1762 and was paid exclusively by its membership. The first organist to take charge of it …

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Incorporation of the wind players to the Cathedral of Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
Nov. 21, 2020

The first news about the hiring and participation of instrumentalists in the festivities of the Cathedral of Ávila dates frim 1520. During the first decades, musicians and groups of musicians …

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Organist and singer at the convent of Santa Clara in Trujillo (Perú)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 16, 2020

Isabel Arias de Bobadilla, born in Cuzco, was an outstanding singer and organist who spent seventy-three of her eighty years in the convents of Poor Clares in the Peruvian cities …

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