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Town hall of Medina del Campo (Valladolid)
Trumpet and kettledrum players of the town of Medina del Campo (1651)

On 13 February 1651, Francisco de Zamora, blacksmith and trumpet player, resident of Medina del …

March 7, 2022
Our Lady of the Solitude
Procession of the confraternity of Our Lady of Solitude and the Burial of Christ

Procession of the confraternity of Our Lady of Solitude and the Burial of Christ.

Feb. 26, 2022
Shawms (16th century). Salamanca Cathedral
Gaspar Maldonado, master of minstrels (1530-c.1595)

A document from the Archivo General de Indias indirectly provides us with information on the …

Feb. 20, 2022
Title page. <em>El Parnaso</em>. Esteban Daza. Valladolid, 1576
Works by Francisco Guerrero in El Parnaso by Esteban Daza (1576)

Works by Francisco Guerrero in El Parnaso&nbsp;by Esteban Daza (1576).

Feb. 16, 2022

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Procession of blood and disciplines during Lent in Seville (1285)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
26-03-2018

A brief piece of news from an apostolic brief by Pope Martin V, in 1285, brings us closer to the first penitential brotherhood that we know of in Seville. It …

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Inventory of the musical instruments and books for the wind players of the cathedral of Granada (1657)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
22-03-2018

The inventory of the “goods” of the Granada cathedral, carried out in 1657, provides us with a list of the instruments and minstrels’ books that the cathedral had on that …

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Zambreros (Moorish ensemble) in the Alhambra (1501)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
06-03-2018

&nbsp;On 19 April 1501, during one of her stays in Granada, Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered a payment of four doubloons of gold to a group of "newly converted instrumentalist", …

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