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Church of San Salvador. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Burial of the minstrel Pedro Crespo in Valladolid (1589)

The minstrel Pedro Crespo died in Valladolid in September 1589. His testamentary orders allow us …

Nov. 14, 2022
Jesus of Patience (= of Meditation)
Confraternities at the church of San Justo y Pastor in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Justo y Pastor in Granada.

Nov. 13, 2022
Apse and arch of Santiago church. Sandalio de Sancha (1841)
Dances in the Corpus Christi procession in Guadalajara (1612)

On 8 June 1612, Juan Navarro, "dance teacher", a resident of Guadalajara, registered a letter …

Nov. 11, 2022
Dedication. <em>Mottecta</em>. Francisco Guerrero
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the cathedral of Guadix

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the cathedral of Guadix

Nov. 9, 2022

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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