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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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New harp for Granada Cathedral (1654)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-04-2019

On 6 November 1653, the Chapter of Granada Cathedral agreed with Clemente Jiménez, a guitar maker from Granada, to build a harp for 350 reales (11,900 maravedís). The instrument was …

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Two Conducts on the Spanish Frontier of Christendom (c. 1270)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
24-03-2019

The location in the Seville Cathedral archive, in July 2005, of a polyphony fragment from the second half of the 13th century, in which two conductus were copied, allows us …

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New bells for the collegiate church of El Salvador in Granada (1763)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
18-03-2019

As a result of the earthquake of 1755, the building of the collegiate church of El Salvador was badly damaged. In 1762, the chapter commissioned José Corona, a master bell …

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