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church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Eucharistic play, sarao and dances for the Corpus Christi festivities in Oropesa (1755)

An attempt to represent an auto sacramental in the Toledo town of Oropesa in 1755, …

Oct. 11, 2021
<em>Historia civitatense</em>, tomo II, fol. 18v
The minstrels book of Juan Esquivel de Barahona (1623)

The minstrels book of Juan Esquivel de Barahona (1623).

Oct. 8, 2021
Constituciones de la capilla de música del Salvador (1723)
Confraternity of musicians of the collegiate church of El Salvador in Granada

The association of musicians in the musical chapels of the Hispanic sacred institutions was linked …

Oct. 3, 2021
Chapel of Santa Ana. Almudaina palace
The Almudaina Palace organ (1309-1506)

News about the first organs in the chapel of Santa Ana, located in the centre …

Oct. 3, 2021

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Music education and domestic music (c. 1620)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
15-11-2017

The biographical profile of Adriana del Espíritu Santo offers us an interesting example of the musical education of the young women of the Granada oligarchy and of the parties that …

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Burying a Muslim in the cemetery (maqbara) of Bāb Ilbīra (1494)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
05-11-2017

The German traveller Hieronymus Münzer, in his Journey through Spain and Portugal (1494-95), gives us an account of the burial ceremony he witnessed on his visit to the Muslim cemetery …

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Public concerts in the bullring of Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
23-10-2017

In the second half of the 18th century, the Real Maestranza of Seville organized a series of public concerts in the bullring that seem to fade away with the first …

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