Abstract

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, folk songs were popularized and spread by traveling musicians performing at markets, fairs, and festivities. The musicians sometimes sold printed sheets of song lyrics so that audiences could memorize them. This love song dates to the early seventeenth century.

Folk Song: Es flog ein klein Waldvögelein (c. 1610)

Source

Source: Anonymous, Es flog ein klein Waldvögelein, c. 1610. Recording: German Folk Songs of Long Ago. Albert Greiner Chorus, Augsburg. Joseph Lautenbacher, conductor. VOX (VX 25.750), 1963. Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/lp_german-folk-songs-of-long-ago_albert-greiner-chorus-joseph-lautenbach/disc1/02.07.+Es+Flog+Ein+Klein+Waldvoegelein++(There+Flew+A+Little+Forest+Bird+-+Circa+1610.mp3

Internet Archive

Recommended Citation

Folk Song: Es flog ein klein Waldvögelein (c. 1610), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:audio-5063> [March 27, 2025].