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Signatures of Diego Sánchez, Pedro Sánchez and Juan Calvo
Examination of Tomasa de Quintano in Gregorian chant, polyphony and organ (1620)

At the request of the monastery of San Salvador el Real del Moral (Palencia) and …

April 24, 2022
<em>Arrival of the Southern Barbarians (Nanban-jin) Screen</em>. Kano school (c. 1600)
Celebration of the beatification of Ignatius of Loyola in Nagasaki (1611)

Ignatius of Loyola was beatified by Paul V on 27 July 1609. The celebration of …

April 24, 2022
Choir of he church of Santiago
Examination of Tomasa de Quintano in Gregorian chant, polyphony and organ (1620)

At the request of the monastery of San Salvador el Real del Moral (Palencia) and …

April 24, 2022
<em>Livre des statuts et coutumes de la ville d’Agen</em> (13th century), fol. 15r.
Public trumpeters in the town of Agen (13th century)

The Livre des statuts et coutumes de la ville d'Agen (13th century) provides us with …

April 23, 2022

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Trombe marine in the church of San Vicente in Ávila (1757)

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
16-08-2019

The inauguration of a newly-erected reredos to welcome the image of Our Lady of Soterraña was the reason for a variety of celebrations that involved the musical chapel of Ávila …

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Music books in the library of the Jesuit College of Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
13-08-2019

On the suppression of the order, the libraries of the Jesuit colleges in Ávila and Arévalo passed to the bishopric of Ávila. A previously unstudied inventory lists all of the …

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Mapping of the performance of the autos sacramentales in the feast of Corpus Christi in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
13-08-2019

The performances of the autos sacramentales are one of the hallmarks of the Corpus Christi festivity in the Modern Age. This article, the 1,000th of the Historical Soundscapes platform, gives …

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Bishop's welcome in São Tomé (1584)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
04-08-2019

In 1584, the bishop of the diocese, Martinho de Ulhoa, a Cistercian abbot, arrived in São Tomé. Fray Diego del Santísimo Sacramento, a Discalced Carmelite, provides us with a description …

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Black slave wind players for the cathedral of Panamá (1677)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
01-08-2019

In 1677, shortly after the transfer of Panama City to its new settlement, five black minstrel slaves between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two were sent from Seville to serve …

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Luthiers in the parish of San Gil in Granada (1752)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
31-07-2019

The documentation from the Catastro de Ensenada provides us with information on the number of luthiers active in Granada at the time of its drafting, 1752. The guild had a …

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