Category:Ranz des vaches

Ranz" des` vaches". Etym: [f., the ranks or rows of cows, the name Being given from the fact that the cattle, when answering the musical Call of their keeper, move towards him in a row, preceded by those Wearing bells.]

Defn: the name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of The swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the alpine horn, And sometimes sung.