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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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The black dancer Francisco Meneses (†1687)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
31-12-2021

A poetic jácara from 1687 brings us closer to the black musicians who sang and danced in the cities and towns of the Hispanic crowns during the Modern Age.

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Sebastián de Vivanco and the musical libraries

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Michael Noone
06-12-2021

On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de Vivanco left important positions: first when he exchanged the post of chapelmaster at Ávila cathedral …

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