Hey, this is Heather with the Renaissance English History podcast, and this is an abbreviated version of the Tudor Music Hour.

This is a radio show that I do in the UK every Sunday at 9 a.m.

You can listen to it on Mad Wasp Radio.

You can check that out on tune in or you can listen directly.

So I am also putting out the abbreviated version here on the podcast

feed for those of you who want to listen more. So the thing about this is because I don't have

a radio license myself, I can only play 30 seconds snippets of the music. In the radio program live,

I play the full pieces. But here for this purpose, I can only play 30 seconds.

So here's the deal. If you like what you hear and you want to hear more, you can go to Tudor

Music Hour.com, where I have links to a Spotify playlist for every episode. So you can grab the

full pieces and listen to your hearts contend. You can also go to

Tudermusikhour.com for more information about the show, links to how you can listen live,

and everything like that. So thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy it.

Hello and welcome to the Tudor Music Hour. This is the show where you and I travel 500 years to the 16th century and examine the social

changes and upheaval of that period through the lens of music.

I'm your host Heather Tesco, and I've been writing and podcasting about

Tudor History on my show, the Renaissance English History podcast, since 2009. I invite you to check

out the archive and learn more about that show through the links at TudorMusikhour.com. Every week here,

we look at a different theme or composer. This week, we're going to talk about the music in Shakespeare's

plays. I wanted to do this because I've been rereading a Midsummer Night's dream, given that we are in

midsummer right now, and I was thinking about the music that would have been used in the performances.

Fortunately, we have some great sources for the music from the plays.

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