Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Santa Clara in …
Confraternities at the church of Santiago in Granada.
The inventory presented on 3 September 1569 reveals the impressive stock of books that the …
In 1591, Juan de Valencia and Roque de Peñalosa formalised the life-long formation of a …
On 18 August 1689, the music chapel of Barcelona Cathedral performed four villancicos, probably composed by Juan Barter, its chapel master, at the profession ceremony of Benito Gregorio Castellet in …
Confraternities at the church of Santa Ana.
The Convent of San Francisco in Valladolid, now completely disappeared, was historically prominent in the Late Medieval and early modern periods. A 17th-Century friar, Brother Matías de Sobremonte, wrote a …
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Biblioteca de Cataluña.
During the stay in Toledo of the Queen Mother Mariana of Austria (1677-1679), the Toledo Cathedral music chapel performed on numerous occasions in the solemnisation of religious festivities celebrated in …
The music chapel of the Royal Chapel of Granada set up the brotherhood of the Ánimas for the social protection of its members in 1675. Years later, in 1741, it …
A contract published by Pilar Barrios Manzano, in 1980, allows us to learn about the transformation of a harpsichord into a claviorgan, which took place in Cáceres in 1546.
An attempt to represent an auto sacramental in the Toledo town of Oropesa in 1755, in addition to sarao and dances in the Corpus Christi processsion, met the oposition of …
The minstrels book of Juan Esquivel de Barahona (1623).
The association of musicians in the musical chapels of the Hispanic sacred institutions was linked to the legislation regulating their external services, in which we often find some clauses related …