Origins of Carols
Gone Medieval
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The Role of Music in the Early Years
These aristocratic households were in direct competition with each other in terms of music. Scouts were sent from these household chapels on the continent back to england to source the best choristers for their chapel. The idea of medieval music as a kind of early arms race like going around your friend's house and he's got a new 60 inch OLED TV so you want one i want a bigger better tv everyone wants bigger and better choirs singing bigger and better music to make them look good exactly, that's why we've got some very fancy books but we also have some not so fancy books from the less affluent household if you look at edgerton manuscript edgerton three zero seven it
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