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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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Sacred songs for the profession of a monk in the convent of Santa Eulalia de Sarriá (1689)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
01-11-2021

On 18 August 1689, the music chapel of Barcelona Cathedral performed four villancicos, probably composed by Juan Barter, its chapel master, at the profession ceremony of Benito Gregorio Castellet in …

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Performances by the Toledo Cathedral Music Chapel in the Alcázar (1677-1679)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
21-10-2021

During the stay in Toledo of the Queen Mother Mariana of Austria (1677-1679), the Toledo Cathedral music chapel performed on numerous occasions in the solemnisation of religious festivities celebrated in …

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A claviorgan in the Palacio de las Cigueñas (1546)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-10-2021

A contract published by Pilar Barrios Manzano, in 1980, allows us to learn about the transformation of a harpsichord into a claviorgan, which took place in Cáceres in 1546.

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