• cittern and shawm. At the beginning of the 19th century, Swiss folk music was largely performed by ensembles made of itinerant musicians and solo acts using...
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    to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory...
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  • first entered Switzerland in the 1950s, as a series of American musicians popularized the style internationally. The first Swiss rock band of note were Les...
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  • The Swiss Hitparade (German: Schweizer Hitparade) is Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and...
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    The four national languages of Switzerland are German, French, Italian, and Romansh. German, French, and Italian maintain equal status as official languages...
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  • In 2005, Swiss music began to chart climb significantly. Audiences saw many chart debuts from both Swiss and international acts and saw two novelty songs...
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  • French pop music is pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, or any of the other...
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    Romansh: Psalm Svizzer, [ˈ(p)salm ˈʒviːtser]) is the national anthem of Switzerland. It was composed in 1841, by Alberich Zwyssig (1808–1854). Since then...
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  • Swiss music, with the first few months of the year seeing a very steady pattern at the top end of the Swiss singles and album charts. The first Swiss...
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    The Swiss Music Awards (SMA) is Switzerland's largest award ceremony for music, and serves to promote the national music scene and showcase its cultural...
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    in Switzerland UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Switzerland Art in Switzerland Cinema of Switzerland Literature of Switzerland Music of Switzerland Theatre...
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    The Economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced and a highly-developed free market economy. The economy of Switzerland has ranked first...
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    kept alive in organizations all over the country. In Switzerland, it is mostly expressed in music, dance, poetry, wood carving and embroidery. There are...
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  • This is a list of number-one hits in Switzerland by year from the Swiss Music Charts compiled every week. 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976...
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    Switzerland had a population of 8.57 million as of mid-2019. Its population quadrupled over the period 1800 to 1990 (average doubling time 95 years). Population...
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  • Purple Music Switzerland is a Swiss record label, based in Zürich and owned by DJ, producer and a former record shop owner Cem Berter aka Jamie Lewis....
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  • Musicala (SSPM)) is the umbrella organisation of music educators, pedagogues and music teachers in Switzerland. The SMPA has been founded in 1893 and nowadays...
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    the Swiss public broadcasting association, founded in 1931, the holding company of 24 radio and television channels. Headquartered in Bern, the Swiss Broadcasting...
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    Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Music is generally agreed...
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  • Warner Music Central Europe Atlantic Records Germany Warner Music Austria Warner Music Germany Warner Music Switzerland UDR Records Warner Music Italy...
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    YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. The service is designed with a user...
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  • (Germany), ECHO MUSIC (Austria), TBA S.A. (Switzerland) Thunderdome - The Megamix Of Thunderdome 1-5! (1994) reached number 5 in the Austrian Music Charts for...
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    Beatrice Egli (category 21st-century Swiss women singers)
    Beatrice Egli (born 21 June 1988) is a Swiss pop and Schlager singer. She is the winner of season 10 of the German music competition Deutschland sucht den...
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  • magazines, music videos and live call-in shows, where viewers can participate mostly by means of social media. Viva Schweiz (defunct): Swiss version of Viva...
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    international industry. Banking is seen as emblematic of Switzerland and the country has been one of the largest offshore financial centers and tax havens...
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    Geneva (redirect from Geneva, Switzerland)
    second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous of the French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the...
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  • A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be...
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    Swiss cuisine (German: Schweizer Küche, French: cuisine suisse, Italian: cucina svizzera, Romansh: cuschina svizra) is an ensemble of national, regional...
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  • industry in different music styles) and living this culture yet mostly in their heart with a nostalgic state of mind. Early Swiss German rappers started...
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