Dutch folk music sources in the ‘Garden of Musical Delights’
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 9:40 am
I'm new to this forum; I hope I will not offend anyone by posting this little plug of mine. I surely hope it will be of use to some of you.
With a small community of volunteers we are running a blog called the ‘Lusthof der Muziek’ or ‘Garden of Musical Delights’ (http://lusthof-der-muziek.blogspot.com/). This is a website dedicated to the dissemination of rare musical sources from the Netherlands and Flanders from the 16th to the 20th century. Much of this music was traditionally played on flute and recorder (only second to the violin, I suspect). Obviously we'd like our work to be used by as many musicians as possible.
Over the course of time, loads of material have been added. Both famous and obscure sources from our folk (and ‘burgher’) tradition are now available online, often in various digital formats (abc, pdf, mp3, xml) and all free of charge. To give you a taster, some names and titles that will do ring a bell with people who are familiar with the tradition, are Balmer, Hanekuijk, Kiers, Speets, de Gruijtters, De Oude en Nieuwe Hollandsche Boerenliedjes en Contredansen, De Hollantsche Schouburgh and De Nieuwe Hollandsche Schouwburg. Also available are some treasures which until recently had escaped everyones attention, such as three manuscripts bij the family Van Bolhuis, a charming manuscript for keyboard by a guy named Mentjot, the manuscript ‘Musicq Boek 1740’, and several volumes and fragments from famous series that were published in Amsterdam and were presumed to be lost.
I hope to reach any Dutch and Flemish musicians on this forum, but maybe also people who trace their ancestry to the Low Lands, and of course anyone else who might be interested. Please have a look and take advantage of the efforts of our industrious volunteers who produced these transcriptions. The writing is in Dutch, but we installed the Google translator, which should at least give you an inkling of what each source is about (and the dots can do without, obviously).
Thanks for your interest,
Mark
With a small community of volunteers we are running a blog called the ‘Lusthof der Muziek’ or ‘Garden of Musical Delights’ (http://lusthof-der-muziek.blogspot.com/). This is a website dedicated to the dissemination of rare musical sources from the Netherlands and Flanders from the 16th to the 20th century. Much of this music was traditionally played on flute and recorder (only second to the violin, I suspect). Obviously we'd like our work to be used by as many musicians as possible.
Over the course of time, loads of material have been added. Both famous and obscure sources from our folk (and ‘burgher’) tradition are now available online, often in various digital formats (abc, pdf, mp3, xml) and all free of charge. To give you a taster, some names and titles that will do ring a bell with people who are familiar with the tradition, are Balmer, Hanekuijk, Kiers, Speets, de Gruijtters, De Oude en Nieuwe Hollandsche Boerenliedjes en Contredansen, De Hollantsche Schouburgh and De Nieuwe Hollandsche Schouwburg. Also available are some treasures which until recently had escaped everyones attention, such as three manuscripts bij the family Van Bolhuis, a charming manuscript for keyboard by a guy named Mentjot, the manuscript ‘Musicq Boek 1740’, and several volumes and fragments from famous series that were published in Amsterdam and were presumed to be lost.
I hope to reach any Dutch and Flemish musicians on this forum, but maybe also people who trace their ancestry to the Low Lands, and of course anyone else who might be interested. Please have a look and take advantage of the efforts of our industrious volunteers who produced these transcriptions. The writing is in Dutch, but we installed the Google translator, which should at least give you an inkling of what each source is about (and the dots can do without, obviously).
Thanks for your interest,
Mark
