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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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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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