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viola da gamba |
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viola da gamba: see viol viol, family of bowed stringed instruments, the most important ensemble instruments from the 15th to the 17th cent. The viol's early history is indefinite, but it is recognizable in depictions from as early as the 11th cent. During the second half of the 17th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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John's Smith Square, London, June 20 Viola da gamba maestro unleashes Baroque passion, twirling the gamba like a waxed mustache. Aurally, too, there is reverse evolution, as a noise score (by zoviet*france) is supplanted by instrumental music by seventeenth-century viola da gamba master Marin Marais. Expect ample evidence of Savall's prowess on the viola da gamba, a supple ancestor of the cello. |
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