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Convent of Santa Ana y San José
Villancicos for the profession of Mariana Téllez Girón Gómez de Sandoval in the convent of Santa Ana y San José in Madrid.

Villancicos for the profession of Mariana Téllez Girón Gómez de Sandoval, daughter of the Dukes …

March 14, 2022
Church of  Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Cúllar Vega (Granada)
Organ of the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Cúllar Vega (c. 1751)

The organ of the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in Cúllar Vega (Granada) …

March 13, 2022
Inventory of Alonso Calvo's Assets (1561)
Inventory of instruments and music books of Alonso Calvo (1561)

Inventory of instruments and music books of Alonso Calvo (1561).

March 12, 2022
Choir of Toledo cathedral
Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the Toledo cathedral (1531-1540)

On 28 July 1531, Toledo became the third Hispanic cathedral to hire a stable group …

March 10, 2022

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Last organ of the convent of San José in Granada (1904)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
17-08-2018

The organ of the convent of San José was built in Malaga Cathedral by Aquiles Ghys in 1904 and inaugurated on 8 December of that year.

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Moorish dances and songs in the gardens of the Alhambra in Granada (1526)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
11-08-2018

Johannes Lange de Löwenberg, physician to the Elector of the Palatinate, Archduke Friedrich von Wittelsbach, provides us with an extraordinary account of the dances performed by a group of Moorish …

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Last organ of the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Granada (1836)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-08-2018

After the disentailment of Church properties, in 1836, the priest of the parish of Santa Isabel de Huetor Tajar (Granada) requested the organ from the Mercedarian convent of Nuestra Señora …

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Dilettante musicians and street romances in seventeenth-century Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
03-08-2018

The biography of the anchorite Francisco Velasco (Baza, 1577-Granada, 1622) allows us to approach two facets of the soundscape of Granada: domestic music and the performance of popular songs in …

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