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Christ of the Expiration. Attributed to Diego de Aranda (16th century). Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Confraternities at the church of San Gil in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Gil in Granada

Aug. 3, 2022
Chapel of the Asunción de Nuestra Señora
The training of Indian singers and minstrels in the Franciscan convents of Nueva España (1569)

The report of the Franciscan Province of the Santo Evangelio drawn up in 1569 and …

July 31, 2022
<em>Orphenica lyra</em>. Miguel de Fuenllana [E-Mba PA-2]
Works by Francisco Guerrero in Orphenica lyra by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554)

Works by Francisco Guerrero in Orphenica lyra by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554).

July 29, 2022
Our Lady of Succour (detail)
Confraternities at the church of Santa Escolástica in Granada

Confraternities at the church of Santa Escolástica in Granada.

July 26, 2022

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First organ to the church of Padules (Almería)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
28-11-2020

The first organ in the church of Padules (Almería) must have been built c. 1762 and was paid exclusively by its membership. The first organist to take charge of it …

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Incorporation of the wind players to the Cathedral of Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
21-11-2020

The first news about the hiring and participation of instrumentalists in the festivities of the Cathedral of Ávila dates frim 1520. During the first decades, musicians and groups of musicians …

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Francisco Guerrero's books embarked for the Indies (1601)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-11-2020

In 1601, twenty-four volumes with music by Francisco Guerrero were embarked on the ship San Francisco, including sixteen copies of the&nbsp;Liber vesperarum&nbsp;(Rome, 1584). Individually packed in wooden boxes, they left …

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Francisco Guerrero's books embarked for the Indies (1601)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-11-2020

In 1601, twenty-four volumes with music by Francisco Guerrero were embarked on the ship San Francisco, including sixteen copies of the&nbsp;Liber vesperarum&nbsp;(Rome, 1584). Individually packed in wooden boxes, they left …

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Organist and singer at the convent of Santa Clara in Trujillo (Perú)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
16-11-2020

Isabel Arias de Bobadilla, born in Cuzco, was an outstanding singer and organist who spent seventy-three of her eighty years in the convents of Poor Clares in the Peruvian cities …

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