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Lawsuit of the shawn player Lope del Castillo against Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y de la Cerda, 2nd Count of Mélito (1544-1546)

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Guitar of six courses. Juan Antonio de Vargas Guzmán (1773)
Domestic musical education in Valencia in 1790

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Buchgasse. Map by Matthäus Merian the Elder (1628)
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Frankfurt Fair

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Façade of the Infantado Palace
Minstrels in the service of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Count of Mélito (1542)

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Call to prayer by a muezzin and coranic psalmody at the mosque of Masda ibn Damun in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 9, 2016

The call to prayer of the muezzin, repeated five times a day, was one of the essential elements of the soundscape of Muslim Granada, to which we can add the …

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The sound of the water and birds in the Alameda de Hércules

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 8, 2016

In 1574, the Feria lagoon was remodelled to turn it into one of the most important recreational areas in the city of Seville. The installation of three fountains and several …

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The sound of water and the bustle of Granada's Plaza Larga

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
July 2, 2016

The sound of water and the hustle and bustle of Granada's Plaza Larga, an urban space that was reorganised and brought to life in the last quarter of the 16th …

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