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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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Music chapel at the convent of La Concepción in Mérida (Badajoz)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Mérida
12-03-2021

Since its inception in 1592, the founders of the convent&nbsp;of La Concepción in Mérida&nbsp;(Badajoz) demonstrated their concern and commitment that the nuns who professed in this Franciscan monastery had a …

mass vespers response litany women and musical networks project nuns flute player cornetto player dulcian player harpist music chapel Convent of La Concepción (Franciscans nuns)
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Confraternities at the church of Santa María de la O (Sagrario)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
10-03-2021

Confraternities at the church of Santa María de la O (Sagrario).

confraternities project confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament confraternities with allegorical avocations confraternities with avocations to saints Marian confraternities confraternities of the Souls in Purgatory confraternities of Holy Week confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament or the Holy Name of Jesus at El Sagrario church confraternity of Our Lady of Remedies confraternity of the Souls of Purgatory at El Sagrario church confraternity of the Works of Jesus Christ and Via Sacra brothers confraternity of Saint Peter at the church of Santa María de la O (Sagrario) church of el Sagrario church of el Sagrario. Chapel of la Virgen de los Remedios church of el Sagrario. Chapel of las Ánimas del Purgatorio
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Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Bibliothèque National de France

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Paris
09-03-2021

Works by Francisco Guerrero at the Bibliothèque National de France.

mapping Francisco Guerrero printed works by Francisco Guerrero Francisco Guerrero. Liber primus missarum (1565/1566) [G 4870] Francisco Guerrero. Missarum liber secundus (1582) [G 4872] Miguel de Fuenllana. Orphenica lyra [1554-22] Sacrarum Symphoniarum [B/I 1600-2] Francisco Guerrero. El viaje de Jerusalén Francisco Guerrero (composer, chapel master) Gaetano Gaspari (composer, bibliographer) Bibliothèque National de France. Richelieu site Bibliothèque National de France. Tolbiac site
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First testimonies about the wind players in Palencia cathedral (1553-1569)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Palencia
07-03-2021

First testimonies about the wind players in Palencia cathedral (1553-1569).

mapping incorporation wind player ensembles recruitment of musicians buying an instrument shawm feast of Saint Francis mass vespers cathedral chapter Juan Andrés (dulcian player) Tomé Cabeza (dulcian player) Juan Vázquez (wind player) Juan Montoya (sackbut player) dulcian player sackbut player Palencia cathedral convent of San Francisco
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Bullfights and juegos de cañas at the Plaza Mayor in Valladolid (1592)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Valladolid
06-03-2021

On July 11, 1592, on the occasion of the visit of Felipe II to Valladolid, the city entertained the monarch with bullfights and juegos de cañas that took place in …

bullfights juegos de cañas (mock tournaments fought with bulrushes) pyrotechnic devices street music heraldic music bustle in the street sound of animals Felipe II (king) Jean de L'Hermite (valet to King Felipe II) Enrique Cock (royal archer) city council citizens Juan Téllez-Girón y Guzmán (2nd Duke of Osuna Pedro de Toledo (5th Marquis de Villafranca) Luis III Enríquez de Cabrera Mendoza (8th Admiral of Castile, 4th Duke of Medina de Rioseco) Plaza Mayor
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Trumpets in the service of Francisco de Montejo, governor of Yucatán (1527)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Mérida
03-03-2021

The trumpets Gaspar Vallés, Juan Alonso, and Pedro Fernández participated in the enterprise of the conquest of Yucatán (Mexico), carried out by Francisco Montejo.

street music heraldic music Francisco de Montejo, el Adelantado (governor of Yucatán) Francisco de Montejo, el Mozo Gaspar Vallés (trumpet) Juan Alonso (trumpeter) Pedro Fernández (trumpet) trumpets Montejo house
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Villancicos (secular songs) for Christmas Matins in the Santa Capilla of the church of San Andrés in Jaén (1695)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Jaén
25-02-2021

The location of a printed sheet from 1695 allows us to know the texts of the villancicos (secular songs) composed by the chapelmaster Juan Benito López Contreras to be sung …

Christmas song (villancico) Christmas songs (villancicos) matins of the feast of the Nativity of Jesus confraternities project Marian confraternities Gutierre González Doncel (presbyter, protonotary apostolic) Juan Benito López de Contreras (tenor singer, chapel master, composer) confratenity of the Pure Conception of Our Lady Pilar de D. Ambrosio street church of San Andrés
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Trumpets in the service of Francisco de Montejo, adelantado and governor of Yucatán (1527)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Santa María de la Victoria
21-02-2021

The trumpets Gaspar Vallés, Juan Alonso, and Pedro Fernández participated in the enterprise of the conquest of Yucatán (Mexico), carried out by Francisco Montejo.

street music heraldic music Francisco de Montejo, el Adelantado (governor of Yucatán) Francisco de Montejo, el Mozo Gaspar Vallés (trumpet) Juan Alonso (trumpet) Pedro Fernández (trumpet) trumpets unknown location
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Instruments for the Porta Coeli convent in Valladolid (1618)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Valladolid
21-02-2021

In 1618, Rodrigo Calderón, 1st Marquis of Siete Iglesias, patron of the Porta Coeli convent in Valladolid, commissioned the purchase of flutes and cornettos from Fray Diego de la Fuente, …

buying an instrument women and musical networks project Rodrigo Calderón, 1st. Marquin of Siete Iglesias) Diego Sarmiento de Acuña (1st. Count of Gondomar nuns Bassano (musicians, woodwind maker) convent of Porta Coeli (Conceptionists nuns)
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Confraternities at the Hospital of Corpus Christi

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Granada
20-02-2021

Confraternities at the Hospital of Corpus Christi.

confraternities project confraternities of the Blessed Sacrament confraternities of the Souls in Purgatory confraternities with other avocations open confraternities procession mass confraternity of the Corpus Christi of Mercy and Blessed Souls of Purgatory Antonio de Cáceres Eduardo Correa Corpus Christi's hospital
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