The Austrian Hans Khevenhüller was ambassador of the emperors Maximilian II and Rudolf II before …
The first stage of the journey to Jerusalem took Francisco Guerrero to Madrid, accompanied by …
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada.
Among the books donated by Plácido Arango in 2019 to the Library of the Real …
On 18 August 1689, the music chapel of Barcelona Cathedral performed four villancicos, probably composed by Juan Barter, its chapel master, at the profession ceremony of Benito Gregorio Castellet in …
Confraternities at the church of Santa Ana.
The Convent of San Francisco in Valladolid, now completely disappeared, was historically prominent in the Late Medieval and early modern periods. A 17th-Century friar, Brother Matías de Sobremonte, wrote a …
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Biblioteca de Cataluña.
During the stay in Toledo of the Queen Mother Mariana of Austria (1677-1679), the Toledo Cathedral music chapel performed on numerous occasions in the solemnisation of religious festivities celebrated in …
The music chapel of the Royal Chapel of Granada set up the brotherhood of the Ánimas for the social protection of its members in 1675. Years later, in 1741, it …
A contract published by Pilar Barrios Manzano, in 1980, allows us to learn about the transformation of a harpsichord into a claviorgan, which took place in Cáceres in 1546.
An attempt to represent an auto sacramental in the Toledo town of Oropesa in 1755, in addition to sarao and dances in the Corpus Christi processsion, met the oposition of …
The minstrels book of Juan Esquivel de Barahona (1623).
The association of musicians in the musical chapels of the Hispanic sacred institutions was linked to the legislation regulating their external services, in which we often find some clauses related …