Cathedral Vicars Who Had to Sing for Their Supper ; Local History Music and Cathedrals Have Always Gone Together, As Inseparable in Their Way As Eggs and Bacon

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Whether it be the grand Victorian organ booming out from one of the transepts, the bells rattling the central tower, or the sound of Sunday morning hymns, music has always been seen as one of the best ways of reaching the ear of the Almighty.

For the medieval cathedrals which doubled up as monasteries, the music was generally in the hands of the monks.

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Cathedral Vicars Who Had to Sing for Their Supper ; Local History Music and Cathedrals Have Always Gone Together, As Inseparable in Their Way As Eggs and Bacon

But not every English cathedral was a monastery, with an in- built supply of monks on the premises.

Such secular cathedrals, as they were called, had to rely on another group of men to sing the services and fill the choir with a joyful noise. (Quite how joyful that was at three o'clock in the morning is ...

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