Ranz des Vaches
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A Ranz des Vaches 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."
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.