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Musica Secreta
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Early music group for the discovery and performance of music by and for women. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/musicasecreta Support: http://musicasecreta.org/support-us 💐 Listen: http://spoti.fi/3NHluOe
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Look at this beauty.
A demonstration of the artwork of a double CD, Musica Secreta's *Ricordanze: a record of love*: on the top, the two CDS and the album cover. The CDs each are printed with a section of a sixteenth-century paining of Florence. The CD cover itself, in the centre, has an image of a music manuscript. Below these is the CD packaging unfolded into three panels, printed with the full painting: Vasari's Siege of Florence.
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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We're delighted that Georgia Mann chose the Magnificat for her #Radio3 Essential Classics Album of the Week segment yesterday. It's "holy/holey" in all senses (Laurie had to reconstruct a lot of missing notes), and it was lovely to hear so much chant! Can't wait to hear what she will feature today.
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Soundcheck with nano-nun, a relic from yarnbombing Latitude Festival in 2011. #nuntastic #BBC #InTune
A group of five women standing behind microphones and music stands and a sixth woman at a small chest organ. The studio is lit in purple and salmon, the floor is a herringbone parquet. A group of five women standing behind microphones and music stands and a sixth woman at a small chest organ. The studio is lit in purple and salmon, the floor is a herringbone parquet. The organist is turned to the camera and smiling, pointing at a small figure on her music stand. A close up of a small knitted nun on the music desk of the chest organ. A group of five women standing behind microphones and music stands. The woman on the far left is playing a lute .
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Sending out the pre-orders. 📮📮💌Tomorrow’s the big day - our #nuntastic eleventh CD released on the world!
A yellow paper envelope on a black black granite worktop. Just inserted into the envelope it’s a CD. The title of the CD is Ricordanze, by Musica Secreta.
September 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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And .... it's a wrap on our crowdfunder! An amazing effort in the home stretch - more than £1000 raised in the past four days. A big, HUGE thank you to everyone who has supported the project. We will get your rewards to you as soon as we can. 😍

#earlymodern #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony
August 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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This is just the most perfect canon - the Benedictus from the Messa sopra Recordare Virgo Mater, sung by Luthien Brackett and Yvonne Eddy. If you want to hear the whole mass you can! Preorder the album, Ricordanze, on Bandcamp today #BandcampFriday

#earlymodern #nuntastic #GirlsGotPolyphony
August 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Our #nuntastic physical CDs have arrived! And if you wait just a few more hours, you can pre-order one on Bandcamp for #BandcampFriday! You can also pre-order the digital album - and it's commission-free to us if you order then. You know what to do, and when to to it 😍
A CD cover - the background is a slightly untidy sixteenth-century music manuscript. In the upper Right hand corder is a gold box with the words: Musica Secreta, directed by Laurie Stras. In the lower right quadrant, a larger gold box with the words: Ricordanze - a record of love. A CD with one fold opened out. on the right, the panel is largely black with tiny writing on the lower edge. The middle panel shows a picture of a leather and parchment bound book, slightly worse for wear, with the word "Richordançe" at the top in gothic-looking script. The CD case is fully opened out - the central panel, bleeding to the sides, is a large painting of the Siege of Florence, created in 1558 by Giorgio Vasari. Above the open CD case are - from right to left - a printed CD with a detail from the painting, a booklet with a cover identical to the CD case front, and a second printed CD with a different detail from the painting. The back of a CD card case, with a red edge, a gold inner frame, and a track listing and barcode.
July 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Today’s video set-up, minus tripod and camera, plus laptop and music stand (and cat). Printer broke so no printed notes and I had to improvise. New #nuntastic music history lesson coming soon!
A cluttered office picture: in the background is a large bookcase with a brown leather sofa with multicoloured cushions on it. There is also a cat sleeping in one corner. In front of the sofa is a russet-coloured velvet-covered piano stool, and in front of that an antique music stand with a laptop on it. There are pictures on the wall a chair with a cushion on it side and general disarray.
July 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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We have a new reward for our crowdfunder! Signed copies of the excellent new novel by the excellent Sarah Dunant.

Perfect for solving Christmas present problems before they even arise (and you’ll have time to read it, too, before you package it up).
#HerStory #earlymodern #gueststar #catsofbluesky
July 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Happy new year to you all! If you are feeling in need of benediction after last night, let Elspeth and Kristiina tell you about how *restorative* the Eucharist was to a nun at San Matteo in Arcetri. What a love song 😍 Full video at youtu.be/TvF74iqJZ9E
January 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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A lovely photo by Rosie Taylor of us at St Mary Magdalen in Oxford, being filmed by Vidda Lefeber. Thanks to @spparkle.bsky.social and Will Dawes for facilitating our time there!
A wide lens view of a medieval church interior, taken from a balcony at the back. Six women in black concert dress stand around a lectern, a videographer stands behind a camera in front of a pillar on the left.
November 4, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Angeli arcangeli troni, the Magnificat antiphon for All Saints Day, from the Motetti materna lingua vocata of 1543, attributed to Suor Leonora d'Este. Download the score or buy the CD from our web shop, or stream the whole track from your favourite provider! #earlymodern #nuntastic
November 1, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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Audio not quite in its final version but still... if you need a bit of transcendence right now, this anonymous Magnificat ottavo tono could just be the thing for you right now. Thanks @leverhulme.bsky.social for the opportunity to record it. #earlymodern #nuntastic
October 27, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Look at this beautiful work by Marc Busnel! Faithfully copied from the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript - and we get to sing from it! #nuntastic #earlymodern
A choirbook manuscript of music on a dark wooden lectern standing in a chancel of a medieval church, with an altar in the background
August 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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Best Saturday afternoon things - bit of Petrarch, lovely people. #earlymodern #nuntastic
August 3, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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We are so delighted to see our founder Deborah Roberts recognised in today’s honours #GirlsGotPolyphony
June 15, 2024 at 10:51 AM
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It's going to be #BandcampFriday soon!! Share the Christmas love with us on Friday and buy our very wonderful, very moderately priced, and downright gorgeous Christmas single. You know you want to...
A red Santa hat with white fur trim hangs over a green folder. The folder is on a large lectern, and it stands in front of a wall bookcase.
November 29, 2023 at 6:01 PM
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Our Autumn newsletter is here! We've been recording, we're doing research, and we have some concerts coming up later in October. Find the link on our Linktree: 
linktr.ee/musicasecreta
A group of female musicians, with six singers standing around a music lectern, a viol player, an organist, and a seated director.
October 2, 2023 at 8:22 AM
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Day 2 of recording motets on lady parts - Musica Secreta is standing up to cancer…
A group of female musicians - viol, organ and four singers - performing in a church
September 29, 2023 at 9:49 AM
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We are recording!!! Lovely to be together again, singing our #earlymodern hearts out
Four female singers, and a female organist, at the front of a church. An array of cameras and microphones.
September 28, 2023 at 1:11 PM