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La Huerta de Recoletos (dukes of Medina del Rioseco)
Sainete performed at the wedding of Gaspar de Haro Guzmán, Marquis of Carpio, and Teresa Enríquez de Cabrera (1671)

On 11 June 1671, Gaspar de Haro Guzmán, 7th Marquis of Carpio and Eliche, and …

Feb. 13, 2022
Realejo (17th.). Museo de Instrumentos de Barcelona
Organs for the Dominican convents of Chile built in Guadalajara by Claudio Girón (1590)

In 1590, Fray Cristóbal Núñez commissioned the organ builder Claudio Girón to build six small …

Feb. 7, 2022
<em>Carta geográphica...</em>. Juan Ramón (1683)
Organs for the Dominican convents of Chile built in Guadalajara by Claudio Girón (1590)

In 1590, Fray Cristóbal Núñez commissioned the organ builder Claudio Girón to build six small …

Feb. 7, 2022
Main altar. Collegiate church of El Salvador
Endowments of funeral services for the archbishops of Seville in the collegiate church of El Salvador

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, three archbishops of Seville who died and were buried …

Feb. 4, 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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