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Anne Boleyn's Songbook
Anne Boleyn's Songbook, Music History Michael Lane Anne Boleyn's Songbook, Music History Michael Lane

Anne Boleyn's Songbook

The manuscript known as the Anne Boleyn Songbook tantalizingly has Anne’s name (a signature?) and her father’s motto penned on one of the pages. It would appear, from its contents, to be almost all church music, and so to be sung by a choir made up of men and boys, but its layout and the attractive decorations of initial letters show it is clearly not for a workaday chapel choir.

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