Book of Bourrées from Berry

Blog reader Mark van Nieuwstadt wrote me informing me of a bourrée tune book he had come across. It's in Dutch, he writes, "but it contains an interesting collection of bourrée tunes from the Berry region, and detailed descriptions of dances. I happen to know that the writer, Harry Franken, was a very knowledgeable amateur musicologist."  Aside from this collection of bourrées, Franken "collected many tunes in the field and published an impressive collection of tunes from the southern part of the Netherlands."

The tune book is called Youp 'Nannette. It is posted as a series of images on Picasa and can be found here.

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