Historical soundscapes (c.1200 – c.1800)

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Valladolid
Francisco Guerrero in the private collection of music books and pieces of sheet music of Jerónimo de León (1629)

Francisco Guerrero in the private collection of music books and pieces of sheet music of …

June 25, 2022
Expenses of the chamber of Ruy Gómez de Silva y Mendoza, fol. 72r
Madrid
Musical education and entertainments of Ruy Gómez de Silva y Mendoza, III Duke of Pastrana (1599-1600)

Different Pliegos of the expenses of the chamber of the III Duke, Ruy Gómez de …

June 14, 2022
<em>Liber vesperarum</em>. E-V Impreso 2[2]
Valladolid
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Valladolid cathedral

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Valladolid cathedral.

June 12, 2022
San Marcos bridge
León
The entry of the knight Suero de Quiñones into León (1434)

After thirty days of the tournament organised by the knight Suero de Quiñones at the …

June 8, 2022

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Baptism of Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-07-2015
baptism Francisco Correa de Arauxo (composer, organist) church of San Vicente
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Domestic music at the birthplace of organist Francisco Correa de Arauxo

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-07-2015
domestic music making Francisco Correa de Arauxo (composer, organist) Bajondillo street
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Music lessons at the convent of San Leandro in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
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 …

music lessons organ Francisco Peraza I (composer, organist) Alcázares (nuns, organists) organist convent of San Leandro (Augustinians)
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The soundscape of the Carrera del Darro in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
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 …

bullfights juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) street music sound of animals carriages sounds bustle in the street sound of the water wind players city council horses carriage crowd water carrera del Darro = carrera de la Puerta de Guadix
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Music of minstrels in the square of the Puerta de Guadix in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
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 …

street music wind players city council casa de las Chirimías (shawms)
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Hydraulic organ in the Alcázar's gardens

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
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 …

organ domestic music making Vermondo Resta (architect) hydraulic organ Francisco Correa de Arauxo (composer, organist) reales alcázares (Damas garden)
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Bell restoration (2012)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-07-2015
bell restauration the pealing of bells bell-ringer church of San Juan de la Palma
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Bell restoration (2010)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-07-2015
bell restauration the pealing of bells relojes y campanas Valverde S.A. bell-ringer church of San Pedro
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Literary academy of Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-07-2015
academy domestic music making Luis Vélez de Guevara (writer) Per Afán de Ribera (1st Count of la Torre) Antonio Ortíz Melgarejo (poet, musician) Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (playwright) Blas de las Casas Alés (poet) Ana Caro de Mallén (playwright) Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza (playwright) Armas street
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Procession of the confraternity of the Name of Jesus

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
12-07-2015
procession confraternity feast confraternities project penitential confraternities discipline confraternities confraternities with other avocations closed confraternities prisoners singers wind players Pedro de León (jesuit, writer) confraternity of the Name of Jesus at the prison of Sevilla public royal prison
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