This article explores the possibility that poems preserved in the recusant coterie collection,Tixall Poetrymay include verses written both by and for the Augustinian canonesses of St Monica’s, Louvain, and provide evidence for the cultural life of the convent. It then turns to a consideration of evidence for the cultivation of music, and argues for the practical importance of music to the lives of the canonesses. It explores the intense significance which the canonesses attached to the clothing ceremony, and suggests that one of the Tixall poems, ‘The Royal Nun’, an adaptation of two lyrics from Nathanael Lee’s playTheodosius(1680), perhaps by Herbert Aston, might have been used as the libretto for the music which, when possible, covered the hiatus in the clothing ceremony when the nun took off her bridal garments and assumed her habit.

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Tixall 圈子和鲁汶圣莫尼卡的音乐生活

本文探讨了保留在 recusant 小圈子收藏中的诗歌的可能性，提索尔诗歌可能包括由鲁汶圣莫尼卡的奥古斯丁教士写的诗句，并为修道院的文化生活提供证据。然后转向考虑音乐培养的证据，并论证音乐对教士生活的实际重要性。它探讨了圣女们对服装仪式的强烈意义，并暗示其中一首 Tixall 诗歌“皇家修女”改编自 Nathanael Lee 的戏剧中的两句歌词狄奥多西（1680 年），也许是赫伯特·阿斯顿（Herbert Aston）的作品，可能被用作音乐的歌词，当修女脱下新娘服装并换上她的习惯时，如果可能的话，它会掩盖服装仪式的中断。