#Beards were how one signaled one's manliness and ability to produce children
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Why did I just now notice the prominent flute in the first half of the first chorus of "All You Wanna Do" in the studio cast recording?
#six#six the musical#Katherine Howard#Like I knew there was a little trill after she references 'blowing the flute'#But I just really noticed it this time in the chorus from 'maybe this is it' to 'we have a connection'#and it literally stopped me in my tracks#Cannot get over the genius details in this show#In the Francis Dereham chorus it's like slow serious stern piano with liberal use of the hold pedal#I can't tell what the instrument is in the Henry VIII chorus#Harpsichord?#I am NOT an expert in any of this#The Culpepper chorus is mostly light piano but there's something else there#All You Wanna Do#Also lol the reference to Henry's beard was just listening to a podcast on beards in the early modern period#August 2021 episode of Not Just The Tudors if anyone's interested#Beards were how one signaled one's manliness and ability to produce children#Red beards signalled deceptiveness and untrustworthiness specifically#But she was probably just insulting his difficulty in producing a living heir and this his need for a fifth wife#(Or insulting his appearance because it's a fluff pop musical I care way too much about)
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