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Town hall of huesca
Ceremonies for the proclamation of King Ferdinand VI in the city of Huesca (1746)

Ceremonies for the proclamation of King Ferdinand VI in the city of Huesca (1746).

Dec. 24, 2021
Royal monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
Rogation and procession with the Virgin of Guadalupe celebrated for the plague of locusts in 1755

Rogation and procession with the Virgin of Guadalupe celebrated for the plague of locusts in …

Dec. 22, 2021
<em>Divinos elogios, alegres villancicos...</em>. Écija: Juan Malpartida de las Alas, 1640
Christmas and Epiphany villancicos in the churches of Ecija (Sevilla) during the 17th century

Christmas and Epiphany villancicos in the churches of Ecija (Sevilla) during the 17th century.

Dec. 20, 2021
Convent of La Piedad in Guadalajara. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Musical activity in the convent of La Piedad in Guadalajara

Various chronicles and studies allow us to reconstruct the foundation and endowment of the Franciscan …

Dec. 12, 2021

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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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