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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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New organ for the convent of San Agustín in Jaén (1610)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
30-07-2019

In 1610, Fray Matías de Herrera, prior of the convent of San Agustín and the members of his community contracted with the organ builder Martín Alonso de Aranda, a resident …

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Keyboard music at the convent of Santa Clara in Sevilla (1)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
27-07-2019

A keyboard manuscript from the archives of the convent of Santa Clara in Seville gives us an insight into the transfer of the secular repertoire from the domestic sphere to …

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Organs for the Franciscan convents of Guatemala (1598)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
25-07-2019

In 1598, Fray Antonio Tineo contracted the Flemish organ builder Enrique Franco in Seville to build three organs for the Franciscan province of the Santísimo Nombre de Jesús in Guatemala: …

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Prices of vihuela strings, various instruments and pyrotechnic material in Granada (1627)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
23-07-2019

The Tasas de mercaderías printed in Madrid and Granada, in accordance with the royal pragmatic published in Madrid on 13 September 1627, whose purpose was to try to curb speculation …

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Annual procession to the church of San Isidoro the second day of Rogations in Seville

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
05-07-2019

The procession that Seville Cathedral organised on the second day of Rogations (Tuesday before Ascension Day) to the church of San Isidoro was one of the oldest in the annual …

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