Het Oude Nederlandsche Lied. Wereldlijke en geestelijke liederen uit vroegeren tijd. Teksten en melodieën verzameld en toegelicht 4/4 - Van Duyse, Florimond 1843-1910 (1903-1908 De Nederlandse Boekhandel, 1903)
Van Duyse, a Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist, fought for the use of the Dutch language in court proceedings, and finally made the first plea in Dutch at the Military Court in 1888. Throughout his life, he studied Dutch song in all its forms: the Souterliedekens, the Antwerps liedboek, the Geuzenliederen, the Gruuthuse manuscript and the contemporary compilations of Edmond de Coussemaker, Jan Bols and Jan Frans Willems, among others. He collected Dutch, Flemish and Walloon folk songs and published several volumes of them.
Anthology containing songs (a total of over 1,500 text variants, over 1,000 of which have musical notation) from sources from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. These are folk songs (which had been handed down orally and whose author was no longer known) and, to a limited extent, songs by well-known lyricists, which were included in active song culture. Unlike other song collectors around 1900, who recorded folk song lyrics, Van Duyse exclusively used songbooks, manuscripts and magazines as sources. The songbook is considered the standard work for Dutch folksongs and was labelled by reviewers and song researchers as an ‘improbably well-documented’ and ‘monumental anthology’
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_oude_Nederlandsche_lied
Ex libris Bibliothèque de l'UCL Institut Supérieur archéologique & Histoire d'Art (Stamp)
Ex libris "Van Frans, gegeven op mijn verjaardag 12 april '38" (manuscript)
Keywords: 20th Century (1901-2000); Song; Belgium; Netherlands