Abbey to hear monastic music for first time in 500 years

Abbey to hear monastic music for first time in 500 years

The sound of monastic music will be heard in a Devon Abbey for the first time in nearly 500 years in August. It follows the discovery of a piece of music in a 15th-century book which had been housed in the British Library since 1753. The Buckland Book was originally part of Buckland Abbey but after the building closed it’s unclear what happened to it. It wasn’t until it came into the possession of the Harley family in the 1720s that it was sold …