View of Alcalá Street in Madrid
Antonio Joli (c. 1750-1754)
Piazza Navona, Rome
Caspar van WitteI (1699)
View of Seville from Triana
Anonimous (1726)
Screen of the most noble and loyal city of Mexico
Anonymous
View of Zaragoza
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1647)
Isabel's triumph (Brussels)
Denis van Alsloot (1616)
View of Granada
Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. 1. Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Nanban screen (Japan)
Kano Naizen (c. 1600)
Domestic music scene
Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisboa
Market. Goa
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer de Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (1596)
A view of the Riviera di Chiaia. Naples
Gaspar van Wittel (c. 1710)
Chariot of the Common Joy (Seville)
Domingo Martínez (1748)
Vista de parte da cidade de S. Paulo do Reyno de Angola
Guilherme Paes de Menezes (1755)
Moorish dance (Granada)
Trachtenbuch. Christoph Weiditz (c. 1530-1340)
Chusco dance
Códice Trujillo del Peru o Martínez Compañón (c. 1785)
Constantinopolis
Hartmann Schedel (1493)
View of Valencia
Anton van der Wyngaerde (1563)
View of Venice from the Island of San Giorgio
Gaspare Vanvitelli (1697)
The incorporation of the minstrels to the musical staff of the cathedral of Cadiz is …
Francisco Guerrero's last days in Jerusalem (1588).
On 28 April 1260, Gonzalo Yáñez Dovinal, a wealthy Portuguese man and troubadour, founded the …
On 27 January 1408, Garci Pérez, maestrescuela of Seville Cathedral, established a series of pious …
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 …
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 …
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 …
On 2 April 1556, Fray Pedro Fernández de la Torre, bishop-elect of the diocese of Río de la Plata, arrived in the city of Asunción to take possession of his …
Pedro de Mendoza's expedition that left Seville in 1535 to conquer the territory of the Río de la Plata included a good number of instrumentalists who were present at the …
In 1786, Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón, Archbishop of Toledo, visited the stronghold of Oran, which belonged to his archdiocese. During his ten-day stay in the city, Lorenzana visited …
In the musical chapels of Granada, the tenor register is divided into three sub-registers, from low to high: tenor bajete, tenor de cuerda and tenor barítono. The adjective "barítono" is …
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 …
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 …
Read articleThe 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 …
