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Liedere oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog : verlede en hede
The Dordrecht Collection in the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria includes a large number of pieces of sheet music written during the Anglo-Boer War and about the Anglo-Boer War but composed by people not involved in the war, mainly people living in Europe and the U.S.A. Little studied, and of little musical value, these scores are of great cultural historical value, because of the meanings they convey, their authenticity or lack of it and their performance and reception history. In 2006 and the beginning of 2007 a song about the Anglo-Boer War, composed by people not involved in the war, aroused great interest in South Africa. This song, like many of those of more than a century ago, is named after a Boer general, and not of great musical value. It is, however, of great cultural historical interest because of the many different meanings ascribed to it, its authenticity and its performance and reception history. A number of selected pieces composed and published between 1899 and 1902, as well as the song De la Rey, are discussed in this article.
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