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Port of Lisbon. <em>Civitatis orbis terrarum</em> (1572)
Slave minstrels in the royal galley (1572-1591)

In the last quarter of the 16th century, different groups of slave minstrels, made up …

July 4, 2022
<em>Don Juan de Austria</em>. Anonymous (c. 1575)
Instruments and music books for the royal galley (1572)

A document in the Simancas Archive provides us with a valuable testimony in which a …

July 1, 2022
Guidon of the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez in the church of San Vicente
Endowment of a group of minstrels for the Viaticum procession in the church of San Vicente in Seville (1680)

In 1680, Inés Jacinta Manrique, “señora del donadío de la Torre de Quadros”, left in …

June 29, 2022
1. Church of San Cristóbal. <em>View of Granada</em> (1563). Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Cristóbal in Granada.

June 28, 2022

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Music lessons at the convent of San Leandro in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

Francisco Pacheco, biographer and portraitist of the organist Francisco Peraza (I), provides us with news of two of his outstanding pupils, "las Alcázares", "berberiscas", who were professed as musical nuns …

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The soundscape of the Carrera del Darro in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

The chronicler Francisco Henríquez de Jorquera, in his description of Granada's Carrera del Darro, provides us with different elements of its characteristic soundscape, in which the sound of the minstrels …

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Music of minstrels in the square of the Puerta de Guadix in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

In the neighborhood of the Axares, at the beginning of the 17th century, the space that bordered the Darro River was remodeled to form the Plaza de la Puerta de …

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Hydraulic organ in the Alcázar's gardens

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

One of the most outstanding elements of the soundscape in the gardens of the Reales Alcázares is the fountain of Fame or the Organ, which is attached to the Grutesco …

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