This episode of the Tudor Music Hour looked at music of the virginal.
Here’s a dropbox link to listen to the episode in full:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cx1da3la8twbpcx/Tudor%20Music%20Hour%20September%2016%20Virginals.mp3?dl=0
Here’s a great article on the history of the virginal, and how it reigned in Europe for a hundred years:
https://coloraturaconsulting.com/2014/03/25/instrument-biography-the-virginal/
Link to the album:
Buy it on Amazon
Or listen on Spotify
And here’s a photo of Elizabeth’s Virginal in the V&A
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.