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 Translation for 'viola da gamba' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a viola da gamba | violas da gamba / viola da gambas / viole da gamba
SYNO bass viol | gamba | viola da gamba
mus.
gambe {m}
viola da gamba
mus.
bratsj {m}
viola
jobbermus.
bratsjist {m}
viola player
hist.relig.
autodafé {m}
auto-da-fé
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Translation for 'viola da gamba' from English to Norwegian

viola da gamba
gambe {m}mus.

viola
bratsj {m}mus.
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viola player
bratsjist {m}jobbermus.
auto-da-fé
autodafé {m}hist.relig.
Usage Examples English
  • He enjoyed a promising career, first as a composer then as a performer playing alongside Carl Friedrich Abel, a distinguished player of the viola da gamba.
  • Viola da braccio means the normal viola, and is used here to distinguish it from the viola da gamba.
  • He also sang and played the viola da gamba. Lanier was also appointed as Groom of the Chamber for the Queen's Privy Chamber in 1639.
  • In the dedication of his second book of madrigals, Monteverdi had described himself as a player of the "vivuola" (which could mean either viola da gamba or viola da braccio).
  • A recent reference is the harpsichordist Fernando De Luca's Sonata II for viola da gamba titled "Circe's Cave" ("L'antro della maga Circe").

  • It is currently used for viola, viola d'amore, alto trombone, viola da gamba, and mandola.
  • It is designed to be used in conjunction with a stop of similar tonal quality of its own, normally a Viola da gamba or Salicional.
  • He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments (notably the viola da gamba) in contemporary performance and recording.
  • The Viola da Gamba Society of America has also been a potent force fostering new compositions for the viol.
  • Bach's three sonatas for unaccompanied violin, in the first five of his six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord and in the first two of his three sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord.

  • Unlike a Western string bow, the bow of the "rebab" is deeper and held underhand like that of a viola da gamba. The player's thumb applies pressure directly on the hairs to control tension.
  • Concerning the origin of the baryton, Pamplin suggests that "the instrument probably originated in England in the early 17th century when the characteristics of two instruments, the viola da gamba and the bandora, were combined into one hybrid instrument".
  • The arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument fretted and tuned like a guitar, but with a curved bridge so it can be bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba.
  • The player held the gudok on his lap, like a cello or viola da gamba.
  • In 2015 new manuscripts of Abel's viola da gamba music were found in the library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, in a collection from the Maltzahn family palace in the town of Milicz in Poland, originally brought back from London by [...].

  • There are two major approaches to the design outline shape of the double bass: the "violin form" (shown in the labelled picture in the construction section); and the "viola da gamba" form (shown in the header picture of this article).
  • The first recognised use of pizzicato in classical music is found in Tobias Hume's "Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke" (1607), wherein he instructs the viola da gamba player to use pizzicato (' [...] ').
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