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The Dutch Song Databaseversion 2.0 (march 2008)The Dutch Song Database (Nederlandse Liederenbank in Dutch) contains more than 125,000 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 in the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam and is maintained and developed further by its Centre for Documentation and Reseach of Dutch Songs, in cooperation with several partners. : Dutch Songs On Line: funds for 100.000 full songtextsIn May 2009, a follow-up project for The Dutch Song Database started, entitled Dutch songs on Line. This project in funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The work done by the Dutch Song Database and the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL, Digital Library for Dutch Literature) will be combined and significantly expanded into a comprehensive new database by adding a new, large data set with full transcriptions of lyrics, links to scans of the sources and contextual information.read more...
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