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Choir lectern of the Seville cathedral (detail). Bartolomé Morel (1565)
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]
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
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]
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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Sebastián de Vivanco and the musical libraries

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado, Michael Noone
06-12-2021

On three separate occasions, music books were found to be missing soon after Sebastián de Vivanco left important positions: first when he exchanged the post of chapelmaster at Ávila cathedral …

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Drums and trumpets at the court of the kings of Fez at the court of the kings of Fez

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
05-12-2021

Luis del Mármol Carvajal, in his Descripción general de África, published in 1573, gives us a precise description of the drums and trumpets in the service of the kings of …

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