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Church of Santa María de la Alhambra
Confraternities at the church of Santa María de la Alhambra

Confraternities at the church of Santa María de la Alhambra.

Sept. 24, 2022
Dávalos palace
Lawsuit of the shawn player Lope del Castillo against Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y de la Cerda, 2nd Count of Mélito (1544-1546)

A lawsuit brought by the minstrel Lope del Castillo against his former patron, Diego Hurtado …

Sept. 22, 2022
Guitar of six courses. Juan Antonio de Vargas Guzmán (1773)
Domestic musical education in Valencia in 1790

A collection of news extracted from the Diario de Valencia related to the publicity of …

Sept. 16, 2022
Buchgasse. Map by Matthäus Merian the Elder (1628)
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Frankfurt Fair

The catalogues of the Frankfurt fair published in the 16th century have enabled me to …

Sept. 16, 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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