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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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Flemish organ, harpsichords and clavichords in Sevilla (1554)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
02-07-2017

A notarial protocol signed on 26 May 1554, gives us an insight into the reception of key instruments from Antwerp in Seville in the mid-16th century.

buying an instrument Conrado de Colonia Arnao (flemish painter, merchant) Juan Turiez parish of San Salvador
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Ceremony of arming knight and taking the habit of Santiago to Carlos Núñez de Valdivia (1625)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
01-07-2017

The particular ceremony of knight-arming in the Order of Santiago was also solemnised musically with the organ and the minstrels, as can be seen in the ceremony celebrated in the …

arming a knight mass Carlos Núñez de Valdivia y Mendoza (canónigo, chantre, caballero de la orden de Santiago) wind players organist nobility cathedral
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Organ for the Augustinian convent of Sancti Spiritus (1560)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
27-06-2017
organ Jerónimo de León (organ builder) convent of Sancti Spiritus (Augustinians)
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A funeral procession of executed in Granada (1614)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
25-06-2017

Description of the procession for the burial of those executed annually organized by the brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament and Mercy of the Corpus Christi hospital on Lazarus or Passion …

funeral procession procession processional transfer of the deceased to the church response requiem mass confraternities project confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament the pealing of bells music chapel of the cathedral confraternity of the Corpus Christi of Mercy and Blessed Souls of Purgatory clergy friars knights crowd nobility humilladero of San Sebastián carrera del Genil Rastro's gate Herreros street Zacatín street church of San Gil Corpus Christi's hospital Bibarrambla square
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Feast of inauguration of the chapel of the Royal College Seminar of San Telmo (1724)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
23-06-2017

On 23 January 1724, the inauguration ceremony of the chapel of the Royal Seminary College of San Telmo (1724), dedicated to the Virgin of Buen Aire, which had been founded …

feast of the dedication or reopening of a church procession pontifical mass dances Coelestis urbs Jerusalem (hymn) Te deum laudamus (hymn) cathedral chapter music chapel of the cathedral dulcian player clarion player dances Real Colegio Seminario de San Telmo
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Organ in the convent of la Madre de Dios (Comendadoras de Santiago)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
20-06-2017

Description of the organ of the convent of La Madre de Dios (Commendadoras de Santiago) built in 1782 by the organ builder Sebastián Pabón y Valdés at the request of …

organ organ repair to tune the organ women and musical networks project Salvador Pabón y Valdés (organ builder) Adolfo Montero Weiss (organ and piano builder) Pedro Ghys (organ builder) Ana de Monroy Pizarro (nun, comendadora mayor) convent of la Madre de Dios (comendadoras of the Military Order of Santiago)
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Music activity in the Oratory of San Felipe Neri

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
19-06-2017
mass vespers José María Blanco-White (writer, violinist) Manuel del Pópulo Vicente (= Manuel García, singer, composer, singing teacher) singers instrumentalists oratory of San Felipe Neri
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The first documented castrati in the music chapels of Granada

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
19-06-2017
Jerónimo de Aliseda (singer, soprano, castrato) Jerónimo de Aliseda (composer, chapel master) Santos de Aliseda (tenor, chapel master) Pablo de Aliseda (chaplain) Bartolomé García (singer, soprano, castrato) cathedral of Granada. Old choir cathedral of Granada. Choir cathedral of Granada. Chapel of Nuestra Señora de "El Antigua" royal chapel capilla real. High choir capilla real. Low choir cathedral
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Music and the game of forfeits

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
17-06-2017
domestic music making José María Blanco-White (writer, violinist) José María Blanco-White's house
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Vejamen in the examination for university degree in the Imperial University of Granada (1715)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
16-06-2017
vejamen domestic music making vejamen domestic music making Antonio Navarro (composer, chapel master) Gabriel Bernardo Enríquez de Lara, Aduladín y Palacios (physician, musician) Pedro Esteban de Sotomayor (physician, musician) Eustaquio Galofaro (physician, musician) colegio real (university of Granada)
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