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The Dutch Song Database

version 2.0 (march 2008) / last update: May 10, 2013

The Dutch Song Database (Nederlandse Liederenbank in Dutch) contains more than 150,000 songs in the Dutch and Flemish language, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century.
It contains love songs, satirical songs, Beggar songs, psalms and other religious songs, folksongs, children's songs, St Nicholas and Christmas songs, and so on and so forth.
The main sources for all these songs are songbooks, songsheets (broadsides), song manuscripts and fieldwork recordings.
For every song the source is indicated where the text and/or the melody can be found. In some cases one can click directly to the complete text, or to the music, or to a recording.
The Dutch Song Database was compiled at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam and is maintained and developed further by its Centre for Documentation and Research of Dutch Songs, in cooperation with several partners.

Dissertation Jos Houtsma

December 17, 2012
Pol HeynsOn 18 December 2012 Jos Houtsma defends his dissertation De stem en de pen (The Voice and the Pen) about variation in popular songs in MS Weimar Oct. 146 and later sources, at Radboud University Nijmegen. This manuscript is also known as the "Zutphen Songbook".

Collection of Field Recordings by Pol Heyns Online

November 21, 2012
Pol HeynsOn 16 November 2012 a collection of 500 field recordings made by Pol Heyns for the Flemish Broadcasting Company became available online in the Dutch Song Database. During a conference on folksongs as musical heritage, organized in Brussels by Resonant, the well-known Flemish folksong expert Wim Bosmans opened the site as part of a presentation by Martine de Bruin and Louis Grijp.
In 1935-1939 the radio reporter Pol Heyns recorded songs from old Flemish singers, such as Louis van Mensel, a farmer from Herentals, and fiddler Louis Doms from Achtel. These songs are the earliest recorded in Dutch. They make a splendid addition to the field recordings made by Ate Doornbosch for his famous radio program Under the green linden.


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