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Swiss music can only be confederal4 reading minutes

par James Lyon
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Swiss music embodies a decentralized Swiss spirit, born of the cohabitation of the country's cultural diversity.

Swiss music can only be «confederal». Such an idea needs to be confronted with the inadequate concept of national music as forged by a rather form-conscious academic musicology. As it happens, not all representatives of this discipline shared this position, as witnessed by the interesting notion of Schweizer Ton, initiated by the eminent and inspired St. Gallen musicologist Karl Nef. The term national, vertical, is in fact opposed to the confederal idea as Denis de Rougemont understood it, through a cultural and political balance between unity and diversity, verticality and horizontality. He saw the confederal spirit as a form of humanism.

It's only natural that Swiss music

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