Medieval Music in the Netherlands

Study of ancient and medieval music in the Netherlands goes back to the late 1930s. For the most part study projects were initiated by academics from the universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht (Departments of Musicology). It has led to quite a number of  book publications [you need ADOBE READER to open the file].

Present Dutch study into Ancient Music and Medieval Music History is largely in the hands of individuals and is only partially institutionalized. Present fields of study are:

Music Archaeology and Music Iconography

Dr. Martin van Schaik

Dutch Study Group on Music Archaeology, Utrecht.

- The development of stringed musical instruments in the Cycladic, Minoan and Greek Cultures (see Bibliography).

- The borrowing of ancient musical instruments in medieval sources (see Bibliography).

Music Philosophy  

Prof. Dr. Mariken Teeuwen

Constantijn Huygens Institute, The Hague. 

- Reflections of Scientific Debate in the Carolingian Period.

Music Terminology

Dr. Martin van Schaik 

Dutch Study Group on Ancient and Medieval Music.

- Music Terminology in the Writings of Notker Labeo, c. 950-1022  (see Bibliography).

Performance Practice

Aventure Ensemble for Medieval Music

Related Website: http://www.aventure-ensemble.nl/

Sacred Music

Dr. Ulrike Hascher Burger 

Musica devota and Werkgroep voor het laatmiddeleeuws geestelijk lied in de Lage Landen (ca. 1450-1550) (= Study Group of the Late Medieval Sacred Song in the Low Countries ).

- Critical edition of the late medieval songbook of the ‘Devotia Moderna’, Zwolle, Historisch Centrum Overijssel/Gemeentelijke Archiefdienst, coll. Emmanuels-huizen, cat. VI. (c. 1500).

- Contribution to the Werkgroep voor het laatmiddeleeuws geestelijk lied in de Lage Landen: Critical Edition of the MS Berlin, SPK mgo. 190. Probably this edition is the start of a new series.

Related Website: http://www.musicadevota.com  

Dr. Jeske van Dongen

She started the Werkgroep voor het laatmiddeleeuws geestelijk lied in de Lage Landen (ca. 1450-1550) (= Study Group of the Late Medieval Sacred Song in the Low Countries).  

For privacy reasons telephone numbers and addresses of the specialists are only available on request.  

More information concerning Ancient and Medieval Music in the Netherlands can be found in the Dutch Newsletter  >> KLANKBORD  <<

Guidonian hand.

London , BL, Add. 18347, fol. 27v (14th century)

King David playing the harp.

San Marino , Huntington Library, MS EL.9.H.17, fol. 42r. English Psalter  (early 14th century)

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