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  • One of the most significant of these, now preserved in the north Italian city of Aosta, may originally have been a choirbook from the Sainte Chapelle of the ducal castle at Chambéry.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • CHRIST IN GLORY, in an initial B on a leaf from a choirbook (c. 1380s) Psalter (Psalm 109, Dixit Dominus domino meo)

    Sta Maria degli Angeli. Florence 2009

  • The new pragmatism is a dramatic break from the 1990s, when regional leaders played mainly to an international audience out of the choirbook of the Washington Consensus, which held that only strict free-market reform could save Latin America.

    Latin Leaders Follow No Boss 2007

  • Click on the image for a larger picture and more information about the choirbook leaf.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • Thanks to the efforts of staff and students and the Royal College of Music visitors to the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries will be able to listen to a recording of this piece of music in the gallery where the choirbook leaf is displayed.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • I've chosen to illustrate this blog entry with a manuscript leaf that was orginally part of a choirbook made around 1250, probably in Germany.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • The choirbook leaf will be displayed in Gallery 8 Faiths & Empires 300-1250 as part of a display about Great Chuches and Monasteries.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • Click here to see the film about the choirbook leaf and the recording of

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • If you'd like to know more about the choirbook leaf and the recording of the piece of music I've provided a link below to a short film that we made to document the work.

    Museum Blogs 2009

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