Ranz des Vaches

Ranz des Vaches

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 Reverend James Wood, writing in the "Nuttall Encyclopaedia" in 1907, said that such a tune "when played in foreign lands, produces on a Swiss an almost irrepressible yearning for home", repeating 18th century accounts the "mal du Suisse" or "nostalgia" diagnosed in Swiss mercenaries.

The "Kuhreihen" were romanticized in the wake of the Unspunnenfest of 1805 in a collection edited by G. J Kühn and J. R. Wyss. The fourth edition of 1826 gave scores for piano and was luxuriously illustrated, its intended market the educated early tourists to Switzerland. The collection also influenced the Swiss yodel that was emerging at the time.

A famous example of a Ranz des Vaches melody is the English horn and Flute solo in the third section of the overture to Gioachino Rossini's opera "William Tell".

References

*Fritz Frauchiger," The Swiss Kuhreihen", The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 54, No. 213/214 (Jul. - Dec., 1941), pp. 121-131.


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