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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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Street sale of guitars in Alicante (1796)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
27-09-2020

A document from the municipal archive of Alicante allows us to know the sale of guitars in la plaza de la Fruta at the end of the 18th century.

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Musical instruments of Matía de Guzmán, knight of Ávila (1569)

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
24-09-2020

The civil and domestic musical life in Ávila during the 16th century is very little know. Hence the interest of this inventory from 1569, which includes wind, string and keyboard …

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Flutes and shawms for the Augustinian evangelization in New Spain (1551)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
18-09-2020

In 1553, the Augustinian friar Juan de San Román brought flutes and shawms to Mexico destined for one of the convents in the province of Santísimo Nombre de Jesús, whose …

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