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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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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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