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<em>Procession of flagellants</em>. Gerard ter Borch (c.1638)
The process of reduction of penitential confraternities in Granada (1597)

A finales del siglo XVI, el elevado número de cofradías penitenciales existentes en Granada generó …

March 27, 2022
Choir stalls of the convent of Santo André de Rendufe
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto.

March 24, 2022
Convent of  São Bento da Santo Tirso
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto.

March 24, 2022
Biblioteca Pública Municipal in Oporto. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Oporto

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Ms. 40 at the Biblioteca Pública Municipal in Oporto.

March 24, 2022

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Music lessons at the convent of San Leandro in Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

Francisco Pacheco, biographer and portraitist of the organist Francisco Peraza (I), provides us with news of two of his outstanding pupils, "las Alcázares", "berberiscas", who were professed as musical nuns …

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The soundscape of the Carrera del Darro in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

The chronicler Francisco Henríquez de Jorquera, in his description of Granada's Carrera del Darro, provides us with different elements of its characteristic soundscape, in which the sound of the minstrels …

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Music of minstrels in the square of the Puerta de Guadix in Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

In the neighborhood of the Axares, at the beginning of the 17th century, the space that bordered the Darro River was remodeled to form the Plaza de la Puerta de …

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Hydraulic organ in the Alcázar's gardens

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
12-07-2015

One of the most outstanding elements of the soundscape in the gardens of the Reales Alcázares is the fountain of Fame or the Organ, which is attached to the Grutesco …

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