An attempt to represent an auto sacramental in the Toledo town of Oropesa in 1755, …
The minstrels book of Juan Esquivel de Barahona (1623).
The association of musicians in the musical chapels of the Hispanic sacred institutions was linked …
News about the first organs in the chapel of Santa Ana, located in the centre …
Miguel de Fuenllana lived for a few years in Seville, where he would print his book Orphenica Lyra. In his residence in the parish of San Marcos and in that …
The galleons that captained the fleet of the Indies carried among their crews several salaried minstrels. Jerónimo Franco, a ministril, embarked on the nao almiranta which in 1620 went "to …
The Biblioteca Nacional de España has preserved three sheets villancicos dedicated to Saints Justa and Rufina, patron saints of Seville, and linked to this city, which were performed in two …
One of the anecdotes narrated by the Portuguese physician Juan Méndez Nieto in his Discursos medicinales gives us an insight into the domestic musical activity in the house owned by …
In the convent of Santo Tomás de Villanueva, commonly known as Tomasas, the nuns celebrate on 8 December a particular ceremony typical of this female monastery in Granada, which probably …
In 1546, Juan de León (I) printed in Seville the Tres libros de música en cifras para vihuela by Alonso de Mudarra in his workshop near the church of Santa …