The ''Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis'' (English: Journal of the Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands) is a

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covering the

music history Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history o ...

of the

Low Countries The term Low Countries, also known as the Low Lands ( nl, de Lage Landen, french: les Pays-Bas, lb, déi Niddereg Lännereien) and historically called the Netherlands ( nl, de Nederlanden), Flanders, or Belgica, is a coastal lowland region in N ...

. It is published by the Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (English: Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands) and the

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is Eric Jas (

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

). It was established in 1882 as the ''Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis'', renamed "Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis" in 1909. In 1948 the name was changed again to the more general ''Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap'' (English: ''Journal for Musicology''), but in 1960 this reverted to the previous ''Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis''. The journal obtained its current title in 1995 when the society obtained the right to call itself "Royal". The journal is published in two yearly issues, although these are often combined in one special issue covering a single topic.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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, and

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Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been or are editor-in-chief of the journal: *

Albert Smijers Albertus Antonius Smijers (19 July 188815 May 1957), was a Dutch Musicology, musicologist who served as Professor of Musicology at the Utrecht University, University of Utrecht. He was a noted authority on Josquin des Prez—44 volumes of ''Werke ...

, 1921-1955 *Eduard Reeser & John Daniskas, 1959-1967 *Willem Elders, 1968-1988 *Arend Jan Gierveld, 1989-1997 *Eric Jas, 1998–present

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