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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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Serenades under the windows of the Concepción Jerónima convent in Madrid (1589)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-10-2020

A circumstantial news brings us closer to the serenades that were given under the windows of female convents in which characters of a certain lineage were temporarily housed. In this …

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Teaching of music in the Franciscan school of San Juan Evangelista y San Andrés (c. 1551-1581)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
11-10-2020

Between c. 1551 and 1581, the Franciscans ran the San Andrés school, in which an outstanding teaching activity was developed that gave special importance to the teaching of plain chant, …

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