ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 explores the use of instrumental music in the worship and personal lives of the Religious as they negotiate their personal and monastic identities, and particularly the musical transition of those who enter the Religious Life as accomplished secular musicians, but who are forced to abandon their chosen instruments if there is no place for them in monastic life. This is followed by an examination of instrumental use in worship, focusing on the associations and allegorisation of musical instruments, instrumental music as ritual and music for recreation, through which individual monastics may nurture their own personal and cultural identities alongside their monastic identity
