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Old courthouse of Carmona (s. XVI)
Trumpets and kettledrums in the royal proclamations of the city of Carmona during the Modern Age (1504-1724)

On the occasion of the royal proclamations, the council of Carmona performed the ceremonial raising …

April 11, 2023
Port of Cartagena. <em>La descripción de España y de las costas y puertos de sus reinos</em>, fol. 71r. Pedro Teixeira (1634)
Cartagena, second stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

Cartagena, second stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588).

April 9, 2023
Chapel of Santo Cáliz. Valencia cathedral
A printed book for minstrels in Valencia Cathedral (1632)

In an inventory of the musical library of the cathedral of Valencia, made in 1632, …

April 8, 2023
Church of La Purificación in Jacaltenango
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the church of La Purificación in Jacaltenango (Guatemala)

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the church of La Purificación in Jacaltenango (Guatemala).

April 6, 2023

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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