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fromOpen Culture
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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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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