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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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First organ to the church of Padules (Almería)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
28-11-2020

The first organ in the church of Padules (Almería) must have been built c. 1762 and was paid exclusively by its membership. The first organist to take charge of it …

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Incorporation of the wind players to the Cathedral of Ávila

Alfonso de Vicente Delgado
21-11-2020

The first news about the hiring and participation of instrumentalists in the festivities of the Cathedral of Ávila dates frim 1520. During the first decades, musicians and groups of musicians …

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Francisco Guerrero's books embarked for the Indies (1601)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-11-2020

In 1601, twenty-four volumes with music by Francisco Guerrero were embarked on the ship San Francisco, including sixteen copies of the&nbsp;Liber vesperarum&nbsp;(Rome, 1584). Individually packed in wooden boxes, they left …

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Francisco Guerrero's books embarked for the Indies (1601)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
19-11-2020

In 1601, twenty-four volumes with music by Francisco Guerrero were embarked on the ship San Francisco, including sixteen copies of the&nbsp;Liber vesperarum&nbsp;(Rome, 1584). Individually packed in wooden boxes, they left …

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Organist and singer at the convent of Santa Clara in Trujillo (Perú)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
16-11-2020

Isabel Arias de Bobadilla, born in Cuzco, was an outstanding singer and organist who spent seventy-three of her eighty years in the convents of Poor Clares in the Peruvian cities …

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