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Cathedral of Zamora. Photo by Alfonso de Vicente
Zamora
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Zamora (1582-1729)

In the archive of the Zamora cathedral, two accounting notes and four inventories with references …

July 12, 2025
Iglesia de San Juan de los Caballeros. Picture by Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Cordova (SP)
Privilege of Alfonso X to the University of the clergy of Cordova and pious endowments in different sacred spaces in the city (1279).

A privilege granted by King Alfonso X to the University of Clerics of Cordoba allows …

July 9, 2025
Church of San Eutropio. El Espinar (Segovia)
El Espinar
An organ for the church of San Eutropio de El Espinar (1587)

On 8 September 1582, María de Prado, in her will, established a clause in which …

June 30, 2025
Cover of parchment. <em>Superius</em>. <em>Cantos españoles</em> [D-Fru 781]
Freiburg im Breisgau
Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Library of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau

Works by Francisco Guerrero in the Library of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

June 30, 2025

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Festival organized by the Real Maestranza of Granada during the carnival (1746)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
01-03-2017

On Carnival Sunday 1746 (20 February), the Real Maestranza of the city of Granada, which was under the patronage of the Immaculate Conception, organised a series of festivities as a …

juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) carnival dances contradanza sound of the water Real Maestranza of Granada horn player oboist drum player nobility clarion player violin player Triumph of Our Lady convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary) unknown location
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Feast of the Forty Hours devotion (1601-1753)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
27-02-2017
Forty Hours devotion carnival vespers mass of the Conception of Our Lady motet Christmas song (villancico) psalm hymn Pange lingua (hymn) pyrotechnic devices procession sacred concert congregation of the priests of the Immaculate Conception music chapel of the cathedral wind players clarion player casa profesa de la Compañía de Jesús
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Taverns in Seville in 1599

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
20-02-2017

Taverns were a favourable setting for the performance of popular music, as is reflected in the painting Three Musicians (c. 1617), one of the youthful works of the Sevillian painter …

music in taverns Diego Cuelbis (German traveler) musicians Sol street various places
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Funeral rites of the Queen María Amalia de Sajonia in the convent of la Concepción (1760)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
19-02-2017
funeral rites Real Maestranza of Granada music chapel of the cathedral convent of la Concepción (Franciscans Tertiary)
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Wind player in the nao (ship) of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, captain galleon of the West Indies Fleet (1635)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
18-02-2017
naval music Juan Fernández (wind player) Pedro Sánchez (wind player) Juan de la Rosa (wind player) Pedro de Sambuxa (wind player) Juan Gómez (town crier) dulcian player shawn player Guadalquivir river collegiate church of San Salvador church of San Juan de la Palma Lonja square
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Loan of a small organ (“realejo”) and data for its history

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
12-02-2017
mass vespers portative organ to tune the organ organ repair Pedro Luis de Pastrana (organist) Nicolás Huerta (organist) Miguel de Herrera (organ builder) chapter of the capilla real Juan Félix Marcián / Martínez (organ builder) Antonio Navarrete (main chaplain) Tomás Pabón I (organ builder) convent of Jesús y María (Capuchin Franciscans) royal chapel capilla real. Chapel of San Miguel capilla real. Low choir convent of San Antonio Abad (San Antón) (Regular Third Order) convent of the Angel Custodio (Franciscans Recollects of Saint Clare)
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Burial of the organist José Muñoz de Montserrat (1762)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
09-02-2017
burial requiem mass matins for the dead (= vigil) José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Juan Roldán (organist) cathedral chapter music chapel of the cathedral church of Santa Cruz Sevilla cathedral cathedral of Sevilla. Choir Botica de las Aguas square
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Zawiyya in the Albaicín

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
04-02-2017

In the first half of the 14th century, the Banu Sidi Buna family established a&nbsp;zawiyya&nbsp;(=&nbsp;marabout) in the upper part of the Albaicín that survived until the capture of the city …

coranic psalmody dhikr (= zikr) Ibn Sidi Bunuh (Sufi writer) Yusuf I (Sultan of Granada) devotional orders (tarîqât) minstrels the Albaicín
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Miserere for the convent of Santa Clara (1753)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Seville
01-02-2017
Miserere mei Deus (psalm 51) sacred triduum José Muñoz de Montserrat (composer, organist) Manuel Blasco de Nebra (composer, organist) Domingo Arquimbau (composer, chapel master) Joaquín Montero (composer, organist, pianist) music chapel of the convent of Santa Clara convent of Santa Clara (Franciscans)
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos, 1730)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
29-01-2017
feast of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Saint Catherine of Alexandria songs (villancicos) Christmas song (villancico) mass music chapel college of Santa Catalina
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