: Traditional dance music typically involving accordion and clarinet.
: Founded in 1906, this archive specifically focuses on the scientific collection and review of Swiss folk songs.
: Wordless yodeling styles, often specific to certain alpine valleys.
How to where these collections are housed? The history of a particular Swiss region's folk music? Tonarchiv Schweizer Volksmusik
The archive serves as a crucial link between Switzerland's musical past and present. Its collection is vast and geographically diverse, often organized by regional traditions such as those from the and Emmental regions.
The archive contains a wide variety of traditional Swiss genres that reflect the country’s rural and alpine heritage: