María Asunción Flórez Asensio is professor of Music at the EEMM and has a PhD in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for which she was awarded a special doctorate prize. She also holds qualifications as a singing teacher from the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música and as a specialist soloist from the Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid. The author of several monographs, she has published various scientific articles in specialist journals, as well as studies in collective works. She has contributed nearly forty entries to the Diccionario biográfico español of the Real Academia de la Historia and is a member of the advisory committee for the CSIC’s book collection ‘Cancioneros Musicales de Poetas del Siglo de Oro’.