The history of the musical life of the city and the towns of Toledo is not only starred only by the presence of important names or the interpretation of famous compositions, but by a rich and continuous activity of singers, ministriles, organists, dancers or representatives who worked in temples, convents squares, tablados or procession through the streets. This has been reflected in the formation of ministrial companies, apprenticeship contracts, wills, scriptures signed by confraternities to celebrate their festivities and especially the Corpus Christi, documents of which more than half a hundred are published here and are studied together with hundreds of unpublished data. Data and documents that allow us to gliser some of what was the daily life and the struggles of those musicians. A dictionary with 350 names in six decades gives an idea of the presence that music had in the life...read more
