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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rod Minchin

Lost voices of monks finally heard again after 500 years

Rare medieval music, discovered within a 15th-century book, will resonate through Buckland Abbey in Devon this August, bringing the sound of monks back for the first time in 500 years.

The "plaintive" melodies will be performed to mark the book's return to the abbey, a place it has not been since 1539.

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