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Church of San Pedro y San Pablo
Endowment of three shawms to accompany the processions of the Viaticum in churches of Granada (1636)

Captain Juan Álvarez de la Vega, who died in Lima in 1636, endowed, in one …

Jan. 7, 2023
<em>Canticum Beatae Mariae quod magnificat nuncupator</em>. KU Leuven Bibliotheken, sig. RC81
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the KU Leuven Bibliotheken

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the &nbsp;KU Leuven Bibliotheken (Leuven University Library).

Dec. 31, 2022
Convent of Santa María de Cadins
Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the royal convent of Santa María de Cadins in Gerona (1700)

Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the royal convent of Santa María …

Dec. 17, 2022
Convent of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (inside)
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles.

Dec. 7, 2022

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Music lessons at the convent of San Leandro in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

Francisco Pacheco, biographer and portraitist of the organist Francisco Peraza (I), provides us with news of two of his outstanding pupils, "las Alcázares", "berberiscas", who were professed as musical nuns …

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The soundscape of the Carrera del Darro in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

The chronicler Francisco Henríquez de Jorquera, in his description of Granada's Carrera del Darro, provides us with different elements of its characteristic soundscape, in which the sound of the minstrels …

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Music of minstrels in the square of the Puerta de Guadix in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

In the neighborhood of the Axares, at the beginning of the 17th century, the space that bordered the Darro River was remodeled to form the Plaza de la Puerta de …

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Hydraulic organ in the Alcázar's gardens

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

One of the most outstanding elements of the soundscape in the gardens of the Reales Alcázares is the fountain of Fame or the Organ, which is attached to the Grutesco …

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