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The Dutch Song Database

software version 2.1 (June 2013) / last update: November 11, 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.

Congress De zingende Nederlanden: The Singing Netherlands

June 4, 2013

Congress De zingende Nederlanden: The Singing Netherlands - Emotion, Identity, and Topicality in early modern Dutch song culture. The Hague, National Library, August 24, 2013. For more information, please switch to the Dutch version.

Dutch Songs on Line prolonged

June 4, 2013

The project Dutch Songs on Line has been prolonged by one year until 1 May 2014. So far, many sources have come available in a full text version or in scans, whether via DBNL, Google Books or library websites. Links can be found in our source descriptions. During the last year we will connect the individual texts to the Dutch Song Database and make them full text searchable in a new interface.

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