Talk:Music of the Netherlands

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[edit] Historical perspective

What seems to be missing is any historical perspective, as if Dutch music is a recent phenomenon. See for example Dutch school (music), and compare to Music of Italy. Lambiam 21:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Yah, it's true ... this has been on my to-do list for a couple years. The Low Countries were the musical center of Europe from approximately 1400 to 1550, and almost all the most famous musicians either came from there or trained with people who came from there. It's a bit hard to decide where to put this information: for example we have a separate Music of Belgium, Music of France, and so forth, and the area covered by such a writeup would intersect with the geographic area of these three modern-day countries. Antandrus (talk) 15:41, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Electronic music

"Gabber also spawned happy hardcore, a commercial offshoot of gabber."

This is correct (strictly it's just an offshoot - not a commercial offshoot) but importantly that sentence is only true in "Dutch lingo terms". The current Wiki happy hardcore article relates to a different England based form that was an offshoot of the UK breakbeat hardcore. They are not musically the same or connected, with the English having lineage before Gabber was even an active music form. It is much written that the Dutch "happy hardcore" music came from the Scottish music - known in the UK as bouncy techno. This confusion will be fixed! --Revolt 14:27, 2 June 2006 (UTC)