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Convent of the Ángel Custodio
Confraternities at the convent of Ángel Custodio in Granada

Confraternities at the convent of Ángel Custodio.

Dec. 7, 2022
Dominican convent. Santo Domingo (Republica Dominicana)
First bells for the convent of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola (1512-1514)

After the arrival of the Dominicans in Hispaniola in 1510, the crown granted the Order …

Nov. 29, 2022
The new cathedral of Salamanca
Sebastián de Vivanco and celebrations organized by the University of Salamanca for the feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1618

In 1618, the faculty of Salamanca University agreed to a statute that would bind them …

Nov. 19, 2022

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First organs of Mallorca cathedral (13th and 14th centuries)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
29-08-2019

The oldest extant Llibre de Fàbrica of the Cathedral of Mallorca (1327-1345) provides us some information about the musical activity in this institution. In this event, you will find the …

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Italian music for cardinal Portocarrero at the archbishops palace in Toledo

José María Domínguez Rodríguez
29-08-2019

In a letter dated 30 August 1679, the French countess of Aulnoy wrote that cardinal Portocarrero «had brought musicians from Rome whom he paid very well» and described a banquet …

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African drummers in late fifteenth-century Barcelona

Tess Knighton
25-08-2019

Black musicians – including drummers, trumpeters, wind-players and singers – were active throughout Europe during the  fifteenth and sixteenth centuries employed at courts and by civic authorities. Some were slaves; others …

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Saturday Mass of Our Lady and salve

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
23-08-2019

From the beginning of the 16th century, in the diocese of the Canarias, suffragan of Seville, we find the foundation of two liturgical services that had previously been founded in …

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Mencía de Requesens is welcomed in 1602

Ascensión Mazuela Anguita
22-08-2019

The Palau de la Comtessa (Palace of the Countess) in Barcelona was an important setting for social networking and meetings between members of the nobility, royalty, and government in the …

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