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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Episode 174: William Byrd and the Gradualia

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This episode is all about William Byrd, a Catholic who wrote for a Protestant, wrote illegal masses, and somehow survived to publish his great work, The Gradualia, even after James became king.

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0:00.0

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

0:06.2

I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and it is August, which means that I'm recording with the help and assistance of Hannah.

0:16.8

Do you want to say hi?

0:17.7

Hi.

0:18.9

Say welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast.

0:21.3

Welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast.

0:25.3

Perfect.

0:26.6

She's my mommy.

0:27.8

I'm her mommy, yes.

0:29.1

And there's going to be a few clicks because I'm coloring.

0:31.9

And there's going to be, so there's going to be some potential noise because she's sitting here coloring.

0:37.1

Now that we've got that out of the way.

0:39.4

You know, you could wait until you had the absolute perfect conditions.

0:43.1

There is that saying that you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the complete.

0:49.4

So I'm going with that.

0:52.6

Anyway, hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast, a part of the

0:57.8

Agora podcast network.

0:59.5

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

1:03.5

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

1:09.3

much more deeply in touch with our own humanity. This is episode

1:13.5

170-something. I've lost track. It's about a composer who wrote for a church he didn't believe in,

1:20.8

how he covered up his faith, and one of his great creative works. It's about William Bird and the

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