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4 days ago

Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years

Lis­ten­ing to music, espe­cial­ly live music, can be a reli­gious expe­ri­ence. These days, most of us say that fig­u­ra­tive­ly, but for medieval monks, it was the lit­er­al truth. Every aspect of life in a monastery was meant to get you that much clos­er to God, but espe­cial­ly the times when every­one came togeth­er and sang. For Eng­lish monks accus­tomed to that way of life, it would have come as quite a shock, to say the very least,
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Monastic music that survived Henry VIII's dissolution brought back to life

The themes are heavy the threats from disease and crop failures, not to mention powerful rulers but the polyphonic style is bright and joyful.
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fromMedievalists.net
3 weeks ago

Monastic Music Returns to Buckland Abbey After 500 Years of Silence - Medievalists.net

Monastic music is performed at Buckland Abbey for the first time since the 1530s from a rare 15th-century manuscript.
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