Historical soundscapes (c.1200

View of Alcalá Street in Madrid
Antonio Joli (c. 1750-1754)

Piazza Navona, Rome
Caspar van WitteI (1699)

View of Seville from Triana
Anonimous (1726)

Screen of the most noble and loyal city of Mexico
Anonymous

View of Zaragoza
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1647)

Isabel's triumph (Brussels)
Denis van Alsloot (1616)

View of Granada
Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. 1. Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)

Nanban screen (Japan)
Kano Naizen (c. 1600)

Domestic music scene
Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisboa

Market. Goa
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer de Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (1596)

A view of the Riviera di Chiaia. Naples
Gaspar van Wittel (c. 1710)

Chariot of the Common Joy (Seville)
Domingo Martínez (1748)

Vista de parte da cidade de S. Paulo do Reyno de Angola
Guilherme Paes de Menezes (1755)

Moorish dance (Granada)
Trachtenbuch. Christoph Weiditz (c. 1530-1340)

Chusco dance
Códice Trujillo del Peru o Martínez Compañón (c. 1785)

Constantinopolis
Hartmann Schedel (1493)

View of Valencia
Anton van der Wyngaerde (1563)

View of Venice from the Island of San Giorgio
Gaspare Vanvitelli (1697)

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Schoolgirl musicians at the College of Doncellas Nobles in Valladolid (1596-1600)

Music and Ritual in the Franciscan Convents and doctrinas of the Province of San Gregorio (1726)

First Spanish edition of Christian van Adrichem’ Breve descripción de la ciudad de Jerusalén (1603)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns at the convent of Jesús María in Barcelona (1750)

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Theatrical performance to celebrate the birthday of the abbess María Enríquez de Ribera (1671)

The first reference to the organ in church of Santa Escolástica (1573)

Summer parties with danses in The Blanquillo or Patín de las damas

Performance of the comedy Origen del bien y el mal y trabajos de Adán y Eva (1771)

Saint Anthony's belled pig in Seville (c. 1337)

The first references to the organ in the convent of San Jerónimo

Taverns in Seville in the 14th century

Coranic psalmody in the madarasas of Seville

The first reference to the organ in church of San Miguel (1559)

The sounds of the 1755 earthquake