ABOUT

The Dutch Song database (Nederlandse Liederenbank) lists 150,000 songs in Dutch and Flemish from the middle ages through the 20th century. It includes love songs, satirical songs, Beggar songs, psalms and other religious songs, folksongs, children's songs, holiday songs, and much else. Among the other searches supported, its melodic search engine is particularly effective.Sources include sources for all these songs are songbooks, songsheets (broadsides), song manuscripts and fieldwork recordings. The Meertens Institute (Amsterdam) compiled the database, which is now maintained by the Centre for Documentation and Research on Dutch Song. The impetus for starting the project came from the Utrecht ensemble Camerata Trajectina, which has now donated its recordings to the website. In 2014 the project was awarded the Dutch Data Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Repository

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<1M items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Symbolic

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

,

musicology

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Geographical

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

,

Melody

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

,

Human Consumption

,

Interoperable format

,

Playable

,

Query Interface

,

Machine readable symbolic notation