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Lingofable

A 4-part Spanish story series

Notes for a Tone-Deaf Queen

Notas para una reina sin oído

  1. Part 1: A Warning Written in Quavers

    C2 Spanish · 6 min read · Free

    Treason spelled out note by note, and performed—with a bow and a flourish—before the one person in all of England guaranteed not to hear it.

  2. Part 2: Decoded by the Wrong Ears

    C2 Spanish · 8 min read

    He hid a warning where only a trained musician could ever find it. Unfortunately for Nathaniel Crome, the Queen's spymasters employ musicians too.

  3. Part 3: A Galliard for the Gallows

    C2 Spanish · 9 min read

    The rebellion lasted exactly one Sunday. Undoing what it did to an innocent man takes a lady of the Privy Chamber, a cipher sung note by note before the Queen's inquisitors, and thirty minutes of silence over a piece of forged wax.

  4. Part 4: What the Queen Heard

    C2 Spanish · 8 min read

    Elizabeth I cannot tell one note from another — and she has summoned the man whose treasonous galliard she danced to all winter, to tell him exactly what she heard.