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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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Traditional music of the black ethnic community from Lima (1563)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
04-02-2020

In 1563, due to the complaints of the residents of Lima, the city council decided that black people could not do their dances with drums anywhere in the city, limiting …

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Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Capuchinas in Zaragoza (1698)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
25-01-2020

This event is devoted to the extant printed texts that were written for villancicos (sacred songs) composed for the ceremony of profession nuns in the convent of Capuchinas in Zaragoza …

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Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Santa Inés in Zaragoza (1698-1718)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
20-01-2020

This event is devoted to the extant printed texts that were written for villancicos (sacred songs) composed for the ceremony of profession of Dominicans nuns in the convent of Santa …

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Villancicos composed for the religious profession of nuns in the convent of Jerusalén in Zaragoza (1683-1714)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
18-01-2020

This event is devoted to the extant printed texts that were written for villancicos (sacred songs) composed for the profession of Franciscans nuns in the convent of Jerusalén in Zaragoza …

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