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"Ranz des Vaches," said Medora: "a sort of thing the Alpine what's-his-name sings." "It's for atmosphere," said Bond, on the defensive. "Let the pasture furnish its own atmosphere. And you had something about a certain breed of cattle near Rome Rome, was it?" "Roman Campagna. Travel reminiscences." "Travel is a mistake," declared Abner. "So it is," broke in Clytie.
Music is also said to be a capital cure, although the "Ranz des Vaches" did not succeed; but I judge from the cheerful countenances of those of their countrymen who are in the habit of parading our streets with a hand organ and monkey, and enlivening us with the air of "Arouse thee, arouse thee, my merry Swiss boy." For myself I have only experienced the malady twice.
From that moment the remainder of the Ranz des Vaches was a common burst of enthusiasm, the offspring of that national fervor, which forms so strong a link in the social chain, and which is capable of recalling to the bosom that, in other respects, has been hardened by vice and crime, a feeling of some of the purest sentiments of our nature.
In 1822 he returned once more to England, where he passed the remainder of his life in quietude. While travelling in Switzerland, and enjoying the beauties of the scenery, Viotti heard for the first time the plaintive notes of the Ranz des Vaches given forth by a mountain horn, and this melody so impressed him that he learned it and frequently played it on his violin.
The overture to "William Tell," with its Alpine repose, its great storm-picture, the stirring "Ranz des Vaches," and the trumpet-call to freedom, is one of the most perfect and beautiful ever written, and is so familiar that it does not need analysis. Arnold enters, and a long duet, one of Rossini's finest inspirations, follows between Arnold and Tell.
Gothard, and the Rigi, present themselves to his eyes in the vast firmament as the ever-enduring symbols of liberty; whenever the lake of the Four Cantons presents a vessel wavering on the blue surface of its waters; whenever the cascade bursts in thunder from the heights of the Splugen, and shivers itself upon the rocks like tyranny against free hearts; whenever the ruins of an Austrian fortress darken with the remains of frowning walls the round eminences of Uri or Claris; and whenever a calm sunbeam gilds on the declivity of a village the green velvet of the meadows where the herds are feeding to the tinkling of bells and the echo of the Ranz des Vaches so often the imagination traces in all these varied scenes the hat on the summit of the pole the archer condemned to aim at the apple placed on the head of his own child the mark hurled to the ground, transfixed by the unerring arrow the father chained to the bottom of the boat, subduing night, the storm, and his own indignation, to save his executioner and finally, the outraged husband, threatened with the loss of all he holds most dear, yielding to the impulse of nature, and in his turn striking the murderer with a deathblow."
At once my Ivizacan, upon whom this air had the effect of the ranz des vaches on the Swiss, declared, all in tears, that I was a native of Iviza. I then said to the judge that if he would put me in communication with a person knowing the French language, he would arrive at just as embarrassing a result.
Is made Director of the Paris Grand Opéra. Letter from Rossini. Viotti's Account of the "Ranz des Vaches." Anecdotes of the Great Violinist. Dies in London in 1824. Viotti's Place as a Violinist, and Style of Playing. The Tourté Bow first invented during his Time. An Indispensable Factor in Great Playing on the Violin. Viotti's Pupils, and his Influence on the Musical Art.
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