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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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Trumpet and kettledrum players of the town of Medina del Campo (1651)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
07-03-2022

On 13 February 1651, Francisco de Zamora, blacksmith and trumpet player, resident of Medina del Campo (Valladolid), received four atabales from the alderman and commissioner of the town council. He …

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Gaspar Maldonado, master of minstrels (1530-c.1595)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
20-02-2022

A document from the Archivo General de Indias indirectly provides us with information on the teaching work of Gaspar Maldonado, a ministril resident in Madrid.

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