Federal Yodelling Festival
As Federal Yodeling Festival ( French Fête fédérale of yodleurs , Italian Festa federale dello yodel , Romansh Festa federala since jodladers ) every three years from the is Federal Yodel Association , the umbrella organization of all Swiss clubs of yodelling , Alphorn and flag-wavers , organized Swiss festival called. The three-day screenings will be judged by a jury. Around 15,000 participants and 200,000 visitors take part in the large-scale musical event with a festive character.
prehistory
The origins of yodelling go back to prehistoric times. The yodel was used for acoustic communication over long distances. In the Alps, the simple yodel call (Juuz) was used to communicate from alp to alp (signal call) and to attract cattle (cattle call). The natural yodel with the alphorn fa (eleventh partial tone in the natural tone series) is native to Central Switzerland, Appenzell, Toggenburg, Bernbiet, Gruyères and Freiburg. In eastern and western Switzerland a polyphonic yodel form is used, in which pre-yodelers introduce a main melody, which is then followed by the polyphonic choir. The polyphonic yodelling with Schelleschötte (shaking bells) or talerschwinge as an accompaniment has been documented in Appenzell since the end of the 18th century.
19th century
In the 19th century, yodelling in choirs developed in Switzerland as a result of the transformation of intellectual life through the Enlightenment and the discovery of folk and federal values. Since Switzerland hardly knew any court life and neither court orchestras nor operas and soloists, choral singing spread to all strata of the people here earlier than elsewhere. After 1830 their own polyphonic yodelling songs (folk songs) were composed for the newly founded yodelling clubs.
20th century
On the initiative of the Bernese yodelling father Oskar Friedrich Schmalz, the Swiss Yodelling Association was founded in 1910, from which the Federal Yodelling Association (EJV) emerged in 1932 . He is the editor of old and new yodelling song sheets and organizer of the federal yodelling festivals. In the first ten years, yodellers only sang at the federal wrestling and alpine festivals . In 1923 the EJV decided to hold its own association festival. This took place in Basel in 1924 as the first federal yodelling festival with the categories “natural singing” and “according to score” with 31 participating yodelling groups, 48 yodellers, two yodellers, 16 alphorn players and 17 flag-swingers .
The overarching organization of the regional groups and yodelling competitions helped the yodelling song to gain unimagined popularity since the middle of the 20th century. In the first 50 years of existence, eleven federal yodelling festivals were held with an ever increasing number of participants.
21st century
In 2005 there were 780 yodelling groups in Switzerland with more than 24,000 members. 12,000 active people and 200,000 visitors took part in the 27th Federal Yodelling Festival in Lucerne . The 28th four-day Federal Yodelling Festival in Interlaken was attended by 11,000 active people, including formations of Swiss Abroad from Canada, the USA, New Zealand, Australia, and - in partly rainy weather - 150,000 visitors. The parade on Sunday afternoon with over two hours of traditional Swiss customs was one of the highlights.
Federal yodelling festivals
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literature
- Georg Simmel: Psychological and ethnological studies on music, in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft 1882
- Bart Plantenga: Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World , Better World Books, Mishawaka 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-93990-4
Web links
- Max Peter Baumann: Federal Yodelling Festival. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Official website of the Federal Yodelling Association
- Website with information on the 2017 Federal Yodelling Festival in Brig-Glis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Yodelling Festival 2017 will take place in Brig-Glis ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Potzmusig - Swiss radio and television, March 15, 2014
