Ranz des Vaches
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A Ranz des Vaches or Kuhreihen is a simple melody traditionally played on the horn by the Swiss Alpine herdsmen as they drove their cattle to or from the pasture. The Kuhreihen was linked to the Swiss nostalgia and Homesickness (also known as mal du Suisse "Swiss illness" or Schweizerheimweh "Swiss homesickness").
In Swiss nostalgia
The
Reception
The Kuhreihen were romanticized in the wake of the
Perhaps the most famous of the Ranz des Vaches is the cor anglais and flute solo in the third section of the overture to Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell, which has been used hundreds of times in many derivative works since its 1829 premiere, frequently to symbolize a pastoral setting. Another famous example is the oboe and cor anglais theme of the third movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.
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- ^ Thoreau, Henry David (1884) Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed by Harrison Gray Otis Blake (4th Ed.) Houghton, Mifflin, 212–213.
- ISBN 978-0-8070-9713-7.
- Fritz Frauchiger, The Swiss Kuhreihen, The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 54, No. 213/214 (Jul.–Dec., 1941), pp. 121–131.
- Article about the song "Lyoba" (le Ranz des Vaches) (in French).
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Ranz des Vaches". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.