Word Finder - viola

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A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.

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An organ stop having a similar tone.

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A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.

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A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.

In Beethoven's orchestration there is almost always room for an independent viola part.

Classical and modern chamber-music in the sonata style consists mainly of string-quartets for 2 violins, viola and violoncello; string-trios (rare, because very difficult to write sonorously); pianoforte-trios (pianoforte, violin and violoncello); pianoforte-quartets (pianoforte with string-trio); pianoforte-quintets (pianoforte with string-quartet); string-quintets (with 2 violas, very rarely with 2 violoncellos), and (in two important cases by Brahms) stringsextets.

Sir James, the father, is played by solo viola.

I have been principal viola in the Sinfonia of Birmingham for some years.

William Breeze brings the track to a fitting end with layered electric viola rising to crescendo.

A bass viola da gamba, the precursor to the cello, which dates from around 1680, is also up for grabs.

What 's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a crushed viola in the road?

I was responsible mainly for violin and piano tuition, but my position as String Teacher also included teaching the viola and cello.

It may have been intended as a viola d'amore but, when found to be too large, was finished as a treble viol.

What 's the most popular recording of the William Walton viola concerto?

In 1859 he began to earn a living playing the viola in an orchestra.

Lionel Tertis Lionel Tertis is almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century.

Renowned violist Jane Atkins performs the Viola concerto, a work long close to her heart.

Stringed instruments include orchestra instruments like the violin, cello, viola, and string bass, as well as the banjo, harp, and mandolin.

With a hot glue gun and a hair clip, affix the flower to the backside of a clip and viola!

Brody joins older sister Reece Viola, 4, and step-sister Izabella, 12, from Hamilton's previous marriage.

She took the Oscar home this year for her portrayal of Viola in Shakespeare in Love.

For a touch of intrigue, Brighton offers the Viola straw handbag with a sweeping open scroll keynote design in croco.

A little bit soul, a little bit country, plus a backbeat - and viola, the genre that changed it all was born.

For example, it has often been said that the extent to which their orchestral viola parts double the basses is due, partly to bad traditions of Italian opera, and partly to the fact that viola players were, more often than not, simply persons who had failed to play the violin.

Thus there was quite as much important solo music for the flute as for the violin; and almost more music for the viola da gamba than for the violoncello.

Magnificent examples are Mozart's trio for pianoforte, clarinet and viola, his quintet for pianoforte, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (imitated by Beethoven), his quintet for clarinet and strings, Brahms's clarinet-quintet for the same combination, and his trio for pianoforte, violin and horn.

Undoubtedly, the madness of the hero of this play of Ford's occasionally recalls Hamlet, while the heroine is one of the many, and at the same time one of the most pleasing, parallels to Viola.

The violets comprise a large botanical genus (Viola) - in which more than 200 species have been described - found principally in temperate or mountain regions of the northern hemisphere; they also occur in mountainous districts of South America and South and Tropical Africa, while a few are found in Australasia.

Several species of Viola are native to Great Britain.

Floral diagram of Viola, showing arrangement of parts in horizontal plan.

Umbrail Pass or Wermserjoch (Munster Valley to the Stelvio road), carriage road Passo di Val Viola (Bernina road to Bormio), bridle path Giufplan Pass (Ofen road to Fraele), bridle path.

Ceci Natizie degli Scavi (1908), p. 86; and one or two others are recorded by Professor Viola, ibid.

The viola part is for viola notated using the alto clef.

Mark Knight has also published his own cadenzas for violin concertos by Mozart and viola concertos by Stamitz and Hoffmeister.

So Adam plays viola dam plays viola da gamba, among other things, but he is also a very great engineer.

He is a pianist, organist, and viola player, and teaches piano improvisation.

How do you get a viola section to play spiccato?

He plays a viola made by Homer Clark in 1982.

She has a degree in music, and has studied the viola.

I was responsible mainly for violin and piano tuition, but my position as String teacher also included teaching the viola and cello.

These include viola, double bass, bassoon, french horn and tuba.

It is performed here by a solo soprano, accompanied by a sopranino recorder, violin and bass viola da gamba.