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<em>Higueruela battle</em> (detail). Orazio Cambiaso (1587-1589)
Drums and trumpets at the court of the kings of Fez at the court of the kings of Fez

Luis del Mármol Carvajal, in his Descripción general de África, published in 1573, gives us …

Dec. 5, 2021
Our Lady of the Solitude
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza

Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza.

Dec. 3, 2021
The main chaple. Cathedral of Granada. Francisco de Heylan
Uproar at the celebration of mass and imprisonment of the minstrels and organist of Granada Cathedral (1595)

The trial brought by the court of the Inquisition of Granada against some members of …

Dec. 1, 2021
Door of the comedy corral of the Hospital de la Magdalena in Ávila (picture by A. de Vicente)
Comedies whit music in the <em>Corral de Comedias</em> in Ávila (1754)

Every year, during the months of June and July, a series of festivals took place …

Nov. 19, 2021

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Misereres sung before the Christ tied to the Column in the convent of Santa Teresa in Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
26-02-2020

Apart from its liturgical function, Psalm 51 (50) Miserere mei Deus was sung in other devotional contexts in many churches and chapels, in Lent and Holy Week. This resulted in …

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Renovation of the organ in the collegiate church of Santa Fe (1736)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
18-02-2020

In 1732, the chapter of the collegiate church of Santa Fe (Granada) agreed with the organ builder Fray Francisco Alejo Muñoz the renovation of the organ of his church, which …

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The Song of the Sibyl in the Tarragona Cathedral

Sergi González González
18-02-2020

Since 2014, the Song of the Sibyl is represented again in the cathedral of Tarragona. Eritrea, a sibyl daughter of a nymph, answers St. Augustine's questions about the redeemer's second …

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