Zingend door het leven : Het Nederlandse liedboek in de Gouden Eeuw

The songbooks are a tangible reminder of the lively seventeenth-century song culture. Young and old, rich and poor: everyone sang, from the cradle to the grave. Natascha Veldhorst shows the diversity and originality of the genre. In addition, the book contains many surprising illustrations that underline how much singing and songbooks were integrated into daily life at the time. Songbooks were long loved by the Dutch population. The genre was invented in the sixteenth century, but remained popular for centuries afterwards. The Golden Age in particular flourished impressively, with hundreds of... Mehr ...