View of Alcalá Street in Madrid
Antonio Joli (c. 1750-1754)
Piazza Navona, Rome
Caspar van WitteI (1699)
View of Seville from Triana
Anonimous (1726)
Screen of the most noble and loyal city of Mexico
Anonymous
View of Zaragoza
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1647)
Isabel's triumph (Brussels)
Denis van Alsloot (1616)
View of Granada
Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. 1. Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg (1572)
Nanban screen (Japan)
Kano Naizen (c. 1600)
Domestic music scene
Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Lisboa
Market. Goa
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, van Ian Huygen van Linschoten naer de Oost ofte Portugaels Indien (1596)
A view of the Riviera di Chiaia. Naples
Gaspar van Wittel (c. 1710)
Chariot of the Common Joy (Seville)
Domingo Martínez (1748)
Vista de parte da cidade de S. Paulo do Reyno de Angola
Guilherme Paes de Menezes (1755)
Moorish dance (Granada)
Trachtenbuch. Christoph Weiditz (c. 1530-1340)
Chusco dance
Códice Trujillo del Peru o Martínez Compañón (c. 1785)
Constantinopolis
Hartmann Schedel (1493)
View of Valencia
Anton van der Wyngaerde (1563)
View of Venice from the Island of San Giorgio
Gaspare Vanvitelli (1697)
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The theatrical company of Manuela de Escamilla in the Corral de Comedias in Medina Sidonia …
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Incorporation of the wind players to the musical resources of the basilica of El Pilar …
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On the suppression of the order, the libraries of the Jesuit colleges in Ávila and Arévalo passed to the bishopric of Ávila. A previously unstudied inventory lists all of the …
The performances of the autos sacramentales are one of the hallmarks of the Corpus Christi festivity in the Modern Age. This article, the 1,000th of the Historical Soundscapes platform, gives …
On 2 April 1556, Fray Pedro Fernández de la Torre, bishop-elect of the diocese of Río de la Plata, arrived in the city of Asunción to take possession of his …
In 1786, Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana y Butrón, Archbishop of Toledo, visited the stronghold of Oran, which belonged to his archdiocese. During his ten-day stay in the city, Lorenzana visited …
In the musical chapels of Granada, the tenor register is divided into three sub-registers, from low to high: tenor bajete, tenor de cuerda and tenor barítono. The adjective "barítono" is …
In 1584, the bishop of the diocese, Martinho de Ulhoa, a Cistercian abbot, arrived in São Tomé. Fray Diego del Santísimo Sacramento, a Discalced Carmelite, provides us with a description …
The documentation from the Catastro de Ensenada provides us with information on the number of luthiers active in Granada at the time of its drafting, 1752. The guild had a …
In 1610, Fray Matías de Herrera, prior of the convent of San Agustín and the members of his community contracted with the organ builder Martín Alonso de Aranda, a resident …
A keyboard manuscript from the archives of the convent of Santa Clara in Seville gives us an insight into the transfer of the secular repertoire from the domestic sphere to …
