Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast

Network.

I'm your host Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe

it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply

in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 145, and it's a little bit of a shorter episode

this week. It's on Tudor Madrigals to celebrate May, because last time we were in winter

with frost fairs on the Thames.

And really, that's not fair, because there is no more glorious place on the planet than England in May and June.

But anyway, I thought we would do something fun and different this time and listen to

some magicals for May.

Now, because of copyright laws and fair use and everything like that, I can't play the full

tracks that I want to play.

So I'll be playing little 30 second snippets.

But I've put together a special Spotify playlist where you can listen to the full works of

all of these magicals as well as more that I recommend.

So you can grab it at inklingcast.com slash madrigals. So let's just dig right into Tudor Magicals or May. So magicals I love because

every kid in high school chamber choir sings Magical's like,

Now is the Month of May.

That was the first one I sang when I was like 16.

And I love it because you see these kids that are in their tuxedos and their satin dresses.

Well, we wore these kind of satiny dresses.

And they're singing, now is the month of May,

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