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Tim Braithwaite
Cardinal Domenico Capranica (1400-1458) on the singers of Pope Nicholas V
‘In honour of immortal God, the Supreme Pontiff Nicholas V filled the most sumptuous sanctuary that he had erected among the papal courts...


Tim Braithwaite
Desiderius Erasmus on Church Singing (1516)
‘Not content even with these things, we have brought into the churches some kind of laboursome and theatrical music...
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