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<em>San Miguel</em>. Torcuato Ruiz del Peral. Chruch of San Miguel (Granada)
Confraternities at the church of San Miguel in Granada

Confraternities at the church of San Miguel in Granada.

May 9, 2022
The Gardano music printing firms
Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by the Gardano family in Venice (1570)

Works by Francisco Guerrero printed by the Gardano family in Venice (1570).

April 29, 2022
College of San Buenaventura (coat of arms of fray Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza)
Musical activity of the students of the College of San Buenaventura in Pastrana (Guadalajara)

In 1628, Fray Pedro González de Mendoza, bishop of Sigüenza and fifth son of Ruy …

April 28, 2022
<em>Blind musician<em>. George de La Tour
The indenture of the blind master Martín de Zarajales and his blind pupil Juan de Aldeanueva in Guadalajara (1531)

The blind musician Martín de Zarajales agrees to teach the apprentice Juan de Aldeanueva, also …

April 28, 2022

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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