Cantatorem quoque egregium, vocabulo Maban, qui a successoribus discipulorum beati papae Gregorii in Cantia fuerat cantandi sonos edoctus, ad se suosque instituendos accersiit, ac per annos duodecim tenuit: quatenus et quae illi non noverant carmina ecclesiastica doceret; et ea quae quondam cognita longo usu vel negligentia inveterare coeperunt huius doctrina priscum renovarentur in statum.
Again, he sent for a cunning musician called Maban, which was taught by the successors of the scholars of the blessed pope Gregory in Kent, to instruct him and his clergy to tune and sing, and kept him 12 years: to the end that he might both teach them the songs of the Church which they could not yet sing, and restore to their old fashion the songs sometime known which by reason of long use or neglect began to be corrupted.
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