Musical iconography of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the Netherlands and France, and its significance for the Cape of Good Hope

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine musical life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as depicted by pictorial art. I shall attempt to pick up the thread in the Netherlands and France, and then to trace its influence on the contemporary society at the Cape. I shall concentrate on the Netherlands and France because they were two countries which greatly influenced the new community at the Cape.