Radio Eviva

Radio Eviva is one of the mainstream radio station of Switzerland that is broadcasted 24 hours a day. Radio Eviva radio station broadcast radio main French-language programs intended to serve the students of UQTR mandate. It promotes the exchange of ideas, musical diversity and the development of knowledge in the production and dissemination of cultural as well as various radio programs, informative, educational, recreational or purely relaxing.

Due to a lack of detailed records, little is known about Swiss folk music prior to the 19th century. Some 16th-century lute tablatures have been reconstructed into authentic instrumental arrangements; however, the first major source of information comes from 19th-century collections of folk songs, and work done by musicologist Hanny Christen. One of the oldest varieties of folk music was the Swiss song Kühreihen, an agricultural Alpine song in the Lydian mode. Traditional instruments included alphorn, hammered dulcimer, fife, hurdy-gurdy, castanets, rebec, bagpipe, cittern and shawm.

Switzerland has long had a distinct cultural identity, despite its diversity of German, French, Italian, Romansh and other ethnicities. Religious and folk music dominated the country until the 17th century, with growth in production of other kinds of music occurring slowly.

Radio Eviva