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The violin and its music, 1881
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1The chaplains and clerks of the chapel were elected by the dean, and were expected to have a good knowledge of descant, to be "clean voyced and well releshed" in pronunciation, eloquent in reading, and sufficient in "organ playings," modest in their behaviour, and were to eat together at the dean's board, and lodge in one chamber.
3Dr. Rimbault remarks*—"Minstrels sometimes assisted at divine service, as appears from a record of the 9th of Edward IV. By part of this record it is recited to be their duty 'to pray (exorare, which it is presumed they did by assisting in the chant, and musical accompaniments, &c.) in the King's Chapel, and particularly for the departed souls of the King and Queen when they shall die, &c.'"
5The eight children of the chapel were instructed in singing by the "Master of Songe" appointed by the dean; they also received tuition on the organs. They ate at the Chapel board next the Yeoman of the Vestry, and had divided amongst them two loaves, one "messe of great meate," two gallons of ale; they were allowed in the winter four pitch candles and litter for their pallets, and to have one servant to truss and bear "their harnesse and lyverey in court." When they reached the age of eighteen, and their voices changed, the king sent them to Oxford or Cambridge, there to be instructed until the king otherwise advanced them. These extracts serve to show that music and musicians in the reign
7* "North's Memories of Musick," p. 77.
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