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Church of San Felipe
The independent musical chapel of Jerónimo de Muniesa in Zaragoza (1575-1595)

The music chapel led by the singing master Jerónimo Muniesa in Saragossa was active from …

Aug. 28, 2022
<em>El Maestro</em>. Luis de Milán
Music in the house of Pedro de Zúñiga y Sotomayor (1570)

The inventory of the goods of Pedro de Zúñiga y Sotomayor (1570) allows us to …

Aug. 26, 2022
Church of San Gregorio Magno
Confraternities at the church of San Gregorio Magno in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Gregorio Magno in Granada.

Aug. 24, 2022
Church of Santiago (Valladolid). Ventura Pérez
Testament and inventory of the estate of the trumpet player Antonio Méndez (1618)

The file containing the will and inventory of assets of the trumpet player Antonio Méndez, …

Aug. 18, 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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