Recording: Ik zag Cecilia komen (Flemish)

  • Recording date: July 2020.
  • Guitar: Kwakkel Merula.
  • Tuning: A=440 Hz.

Ik zag Cecilia komen is a folksong from Flanders. The Belgian musicologist and composer Florimond van Duyse (1843 – 1910) included this song in his collection Het Oude Nederlandse Lied, which appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The melody is based on La Mantovana by the sixteenth-century composer Guiseppino del Blada. The theme even occurs in Smetana’s Die Moldau.

The song itself is a love story between the girl Cecilia and the shepherd Floriaen. The guitar arrangement is by Jan van den Langenberg.

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