Historical soundscapes (c.1200 – c.1800)

Organ teaching in Seville’s domestic space (1647–1649)

The apprenticeship contract drawn up in 1647 between the organist Pedro de Cátedra Fajardo, a resident of the Seville parish of Santa María Magdalena, and Pedro de León, father of …

Music education and domestic music in Granada (c. 1620)

The biographical profile of Adriana del Espíritu Santo offers us an interesting example of the musical education of the young women of the Granada oligarchy and of the parties that …

Selling music scores and other musical accessories in Seville (1793)

In Seville in the late 18th century, there was a thriving market for printed music, both local and international, which was apparently run through specialist shops.

First juegos de cañas documented in the Christian Granada (1492-1494)

The first documented equestrian games in the city of Granada following its conquest were those organised by Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones (1440–1515), 2nd Count of Tendilla and 1st …

Funeral rites held for King Carlos III organized by the Royal Academy of Medicine and other sciences of Sevilla(1789)

On 13 and 14 February 1789, the Royal Society of Medicine and other sciences of Seville celebrated the funeral rites of Carlos III in the convent of Nuestra Señora de …

Burying a Muslim in the cemetery (maqbara) of Bāb Ilbīra (1494)

The German traveller Hieronymus Münzer, in his Journey through Spain and Portugal (1494-95), gives us an account of the burial ceremony he witnessed on his visit to the Muslim cemetery …

Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1792)

The orchestral hand horns in the cathedral music chapel

Public concerts in the bullring of Sevilla

In the second half of the 18th century, the Real Maestranza of Seville organized a series of public concerts in the bullring that seem to fade away with the first …

Buying and selling of instruments between individuals (1793)