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A document recording the contribution made to the state for the maintenance of the armies …
Confraternities at the convent of San Antonio de Padua y San Diego in Granada.
The contract drawn up on 11 September 1642 between Roque Pérez de Lara, a resident …
The "Memoria de los libros de canto de órgano que hay en esta santa iglesia …
The inauguration of a newly-erected reredos to welcome the image of Our Lady of Soterraña was the reason for a variety of celebrations that involved the musical chapel of Ávila …
On the suppression of the order, the libraries of the Jesuit colleges in Ávila and Arévalo passed to the bishopric of Ávila. A previously unstudied inventory lists all of the …
The performances of the autos sacramentales are one of the hallmarks of the Corpus Christi festivity in the Modern Age. This article, the 1,000th of the Historical Soundscapes platform, gives …
On 2 April 1556, Fray Pedro Fernández de la Torre, bishop-elect of the diocese of Río de la Plata, arrived in the city of Asunción to take possession of his …
In 1786, Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón, Archbishop of Toledo, visited the stronghold of Oran, which belonged to his archdiocese. During his ten-day stay in the city, Lorenzana visited …
In the musical chapels of Granada, the tenor register is divided into three sub-registers, from low to high: tenor bajete, tenor de cuerda and tenor barítono. The adjective "barítono" is …
In 1584, the bishop of the diocese, Martinho de Ulhoa, a Cistercian abbot, arrived in São Tomé. Fray Diego del Santísimo Sacramento, a Discalced Carmelite, provides us with a description …
The documentation from the Catastro de Ensenada provides us with information on the number of luthiers active in Granada at the time of its drafting, 1752. The guild had a …
In 1610, Fray Matías de Herrera, prior of the convent of San Agustín and the members of his community contracted with the organ builder Martín Alonso de Aranda, a resident …
A keyboard manuscript from the archives of the convent of Santa Clara in Seville gives us an insight into the transfer of the secular repertoire from the domestic sphere to …