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Madrid. Anton van den Wyngaerde (1562)
Madrid
Madrid, first stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588)

The first stage of the journey to Jerusalem took Francisco Guerrero to Madrid, accompanied by …

March 13, 2023
Convent of Loreto with collegiate church of San Salvador at the back. Richard Ford (c. 1831)
Granada
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Loreto in Granada.

March 12, 2023
Title page. Juan Martínez. <em>Arte de canto llano</em>. (Alcalá: Diego de Angulo, 1565)
Alcalá de Henares
An unknown edition of the Arte de canto llano by Juan Martínez (1565)

Among the books donated by Plácido Arango in 2019 to the Library of the Real …

March 10, 2023
Old hall of the old town hall of Écija
Écija
Conditions for the contracting of a company of minstrels in the city of Ecija (1565-1569)

On 9/07/1565 the minstrel Gaspar Muñoz, representative of a company of minstrels coming from Marchena, …

March 7, 2023

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The teaching of the organ in the domestic space (1647-1649)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Nov. 18, 2017
teaching AAT music education domestic music making motet Pange lingua (hymn) fabordon Pedro de Cátedra Fajardo (organist, priest) Pedro de León (organista, clergy of minor orders) parish of Santa María Magdalena parish of San Juan de Acre
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Music education and domestic music (c. 1620)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Nov. 15, 2017

The biographical profile of Adriana del Espíritu Santo offers us an interesting example of the musical education of the young women of the Granada oligarchy and of the parties that …

music education dances AAT domestic music making dances AAT music lessons women and musical networks project Adriana del Espíritu Santo (nun) convent of Jesús y María (Capuchin Franciscans) various places
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Selling music scores and other musical accessories (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Nov. 12, 2017
selling music scores selling musical accessories simphony chamber music aria Mariano de la Torre (Italian merchant) Ignace Joseph Pleyel (composer) Joseph Haydn (composer) Jan Ladislav Dussek (compositor) François Devienne (composer) Adalbert Gyrowetz (composer) Franz Xaver Dussek (composer) Mariano de la Torre store
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First juegos de cañas documented in the Christian Granada (1492-1494)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Nov. 10, 2017
juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) bustle in the street animal sounds Hieronymus Münzer (humanist) drummers AAT trumpeter AAT wind players Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones, Second Count of Tendilla, First Marquis of Mondéjar Alhambra (fortress) TGN
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Funeral rites held for King Carlos III organized by the Royal Academy of Medicine and other sciences of Sevilla(1789)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Nov. 7, 2017

On 13 and 14 February 1789, the Royal Society of Medicine and other sciences of Seville celebrated the funeral rites of Carlos III in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

funeral rites matins for the dead (= vigil) requiem mass sermon AAT Royal Academy of Medicine and other sciences of Sevilla music chapel of the cathedral clerics of the veintena chaplains AAT nobility cathedral chapter Order of Calced Mercedarians convent of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (Calced Mercedarians)
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Burying a Muslim in the cemetery (maqbara) of Bāb Ilbīra (1494)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Nov. 5, 2017

The German traveller Hieronymus Münzer, in his Journey through Spain and Portugal (1494-95), gives us an account of the burial ceremony he witnessed on his visit to the Muslim cemetery …

burial AAT coranic psalmody crying AAT professional mourners muslims ULAN cemetery of Bāb Ilbīra
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Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1792)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Nov. 3, 2017
selling of instruments domestic music making Borceguinería street
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The orchestral hand horns in the cathedral music chapel

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada TGN
Oct. 29, 2017
buying an instrument horn player music chapel of the cathedral Gregorio Portero (composer, chapel master) Tomás de Peñalosa (chapel master, dulcian player, oboist, horn player) cathedral of La Encarnación cathedral of Granada. Choir
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Public concerts in the bullring of Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Oct. 23, 2017

In the second half of the 18th century, the Real Maestranza of Seville organized a series of public concerts in the bullring that seem to fade away with the first …

public concert Real Maestranza de Sevilla Cristóbal de Luna (violinist) Nicolás Núñez (violinist) oboe clarion horn player timpani double bass cello violin player bullring
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Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1793)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville TGN
Oct. 21, 2017
selling of instruments buying an instrument domestic music making Molviedro or Nueva de la Laguna street
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