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Collegiate chuch of Santa María la Mayor (inside). Antequera. Picture by Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz
Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the collegiate church of Antequera (c. 1575)

As occurred in medium-sized towns where there was no cathedral seat, in Antequera (Malaga) the …

May 1, 2023
Choir. Church of Santa María la Mayor in Ronda
Printed leaflets of villancicos composed for the church of Santa María la Mayor in Ronda (1692 / 1778)

Printed leaflets of villancicos composed for the church of Santa María la Mayor in Ronda …

April 24, 2023
Title page. <em>Canticum Beatae Mariae </em>. Francisco Guerrero [D-Mbs 2 Mus.pr. 30(7)]
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Quirinus in Tegernsee (Germany)

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Quirinus in Tegernsee (Germany).

April 23, 2023
Convent of Nuestra Señora de Gracia
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Gracia in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Gracia in Granada.

April 18, 2023

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Singing of endechas at the convent of the Angel Custodio (1665)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

Fray Tomás Montalvo, biographer of Beatriz María de Jesús, abbess of the convent of the Ángel Custodio in Granada, gives us news of her fondness for music and of the …

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Christmas and Corpus Christi chanzonetas (secular songs) at the convent of La Piedad

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

A payment made in February 1644 shows the performance of chanzonetas (secular songs) in the convent of La Piedad during the festivities of Christmas and Corpus Christi.

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First references to the organ in the convent of La Piedad (1648)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

The news of the repair of an organ in the convent of La Piedad indirectly documents the existence of nuns who played the organ in the convent from the first …

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New organ (1748)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

A payment made in November 1748 tells us that the Dominican community of the convent of La Piedad renovated the organ in their church on that date.

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