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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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Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Frankfurt Fair

The catalogues of the Frankfurt fair published in the 16th century have enabled me to …

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

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Inauguration of the bridge of Las Barcas and entrance in Seville of Abū Ḥafṣ (1171)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
April 26, 2018

Since the end of the 12th century, the bridge of the Barcas over the Guadalquivir River was one of the iconic elements of the city, as well as essential in …

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Private lessons of guitar and other stringed and keyboards instruments in Granada (1810)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
April 18, 2018

A news published in the Gazeta del gobierno de Granada on April 20, 1810 allows us to approach the private teaching of stringed and keyboard instruments in a particular historical …

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Organ of the convent of San Bernardo in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
April 9, 2018

Description of the organ of the convent of San Bernardo (Cistercians) in Granada paid for by its abbess, Sor Josefa María de la Asunción Damas, and built by the organ …

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