Historical soundscapes (c.1200 – c.1800)

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Choir lectern of the Seville cathedral (detail). Bartolomé Morel (1565)
Seville
Cathedral minstrels in the neighbourhood of San Lorenzo (1578)

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

Feb. 1, 2022
Biblioteca Nacional de España, MpCant/25, [fol. 1r]
Seville
Gregorian chant books of the convent of La Encarnación in Seville (1598)

The research carried out on two items preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional de España (MpCant …

Feb. 1, 2022
Our Lady of the Anguish
Granada
Processions at Holy Week in Granada (1631)

In 1631, Juan Palacios, provost of the Diocese, reduced the number of brotherhoods that could …

Jan. 30, 2022
<em>Si para remedio mío</em>. Francisco Guerrero. <em>Cancionero musical de Gerona</em>, fol. [8r]
Gerona
Francisco Guerrero in the Cancionero musical de Gerona.

A villancico by Francisco Guerrero in the Musical Songbook of Girona.

Jan. 25, 2022

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Sale of a vihuela at an auction (1514)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
23-07-2017
selling of instruments Francisco Fernández (beneficiary priest) church of Santa Ana
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Sounds in the Diego de Velazquez’s birth house

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
22-07-2017
the pealing of bells Diego Velázquez (painter) bell-ringer house of Diego Velazquez
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Sounds in the Archbishop's Palace courtyard

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
18-07-2017
sound of the water the pealing of bells water bell-ringer archbishop's palace
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Organ for the church of Ipiales –Colombia– (1585)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
17-07-2017

In 1585, Pedro de Henao, chief and governor of Ipiales (Colombia), bought a series of ornaments for the church in that city. Among those objects was an organ that was …

organ pipe organ introduction mapping Pedro de Henao (Native Indian, Governor of the Ipiales and Potosí) Jerónimo de León (organ builder) Asencio Martín (organ builder) Hernando de Tapia (organist) parish of San Martín
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Wind players escorting the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament to visit the sick.

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
11-07-2017

The presence of minstrels accompanying the Viaticum on its urban journeys to visit the sick was a common occurrence in 17th and 18th century Seville, as evidenced by the sacramental …

To visit to the sick by the confraternity of the Holy Sacrament street music the pealing of bells Viaticum procession confraternities project confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament confraternities of the Souls in Purgatory women and musical networks project endowment Eugenia de Valdés confraternity of the Holy Sacrament and the Blessed Souls of Purgatory at the church of San Pedro confraternity of the Holy Sacrament at the church of San Vicente wind players church of San Pedro parish of San Pedro church of San Vicente parish of San Vicente
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Clock bell of the old mudejar cathedral of Sevilla (1400)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
08-07-2017
the pealing of bells Alfonso Domínguez (bell maker) bell-ringer Gonzalo de Mena (archbishop) Sevilla cathedral cathedral of Sevilla. Bell tower (la Giralda)
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The cloister’s sounds of the convent of Santa Clara

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
08-07-2017
sound of the water sound of animals the pealing of bells water birds nuns convent of Santa Clara (Franciscans)
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Wind players in a play at the University (1550)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
06-07-2017
comedia (secular play) wind players colegio real (university of Granada)
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Trumpeter of the archbishop of Seville (1385)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
04-07-2017
heraldic music Alfonso Martín (trumpeter) Pedro González Barroso (archbishop) archbishop's palace
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The ring of a little bell for the souls in Purgatory in Triana (1566)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
03-07-2017
ringing of a little bell small bell bell-ringer Triana
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