In 1570, King Philip II spent two months residing in the city of Córdoba. Accompanying …
The 1610 inquisitorial trial against Leonor de Guzmán, a mixed-race musician who had connections with …
A loose leaflet, without imprint, preserved in the Library of the Royal Hospital of Granada, …
Acquisition of the mass book of 1592.
The endowment charter of Alonso de Sevilla, established in 1495 in the church of San Martín in Seville, allows us to know about his burial in the chapel of San …
In 1623, the entry of secular women into the cloister of the convent of la Madre de Dios (Comendadoras de Santiago) was authorized to reinforce the musical staff they had …
The pious endowment of Bartolomé Sánchez Paniagua in the church of Omnium Sanctorum in Seville, in 1481, allows us to know about the existence of an organ and an organist …
In July 1658, the town council of the city of Granada was responsible for the celebration of the urban festivities for the birth of Prince Felipe Próspero, which took place …
El Cathálogo de todos los criados mayores y menores que han servido a los excelentísimos duques de Medina, preserved in the Biblioteca del Palacio Real de Madrid, allows us to …
On 10 January 1600, the silk weaver Diego Ruiz signed an apprenticeship contract with Bartolomé de Salazar, a minstrel, to learn to play the shawm, which provides us with some …
In 1485, the beneficiaries of the church of San Bartolomé in Seville awarded the chapel of San Felipe and San Jacobo to the judeoconverso Andrés de Toledo, money changer, and …
The Franciscan nunnery of Santa Inés had a small music chapel at least since the seventeenth century, which was under the direction of a “chapel master”.
The pious endowment made by Isabel Sánchez in her will of a feast of the Conception and another of the Incarnation allows us to document the presence of the organ …
The contract established in 1574 between Juan Ortiz, "master of dance", and the instrumentalist Blas de Torres allows us to document the first "school" of dance in Granada.
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