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Choir of he church of Santiago
Examination of Tomasa de Quintano in Gregorian chant, polyphony and organ (1620)

At the request of the monastery of San Salvador el Real del Moral (Palencia) and …

April 24, 2022
<em>Livre des statuts et coutumes de la ville d’Agen</em> (13th century), fol. 15r.
Public trumpeters in the town of Agen (13th century)

The Livre des statuts et coutumes de la ville d'Agen (13th century) provides us with …

April 23, 2022
<em>Salve regina</em>. Francisco Guerrero. E-Bim 1, fol. 35v
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the convent of Santa Isabel la Real in Toledo

Bernadette Nelson's study of a booklet of polyphony in the Biblioteca de la Institución Milá …

April 21, 2022
<em>Salve regina</em>. Francisco Guerrero. E-Bim 1, fol. 35v
Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Library of the Institución Milá y Fontanals

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Library of the Institución Milá y Fontanals.

April 18, 2022

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Summer parties with danses in The Blanquillo or Patín de las damas

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Aug. 6, 2016

The Blanquillo, previously known as "al sitio del Patín" or "Patín de las damas", was a solid defence against the floods of the Guadalquivir River that ran from the Barqueta …

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Saint Anthony's belled pig in Seville (c. 1337)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Aug. 2, 2016

An Ordinance of Alfonso XI (1337?) allows us to incorporate a new biophonic sound and a sound signal into Seville's urban soundscape, the one that was to be generated by …

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