Old orchestral string

Usage examples of viol.

You say you haint heerd a strain of music except a base viol for over 14 years before you come here.

At the moment a consort of viols and woodwinds played for those who wished to dance, but lutanists and harpists were also scattered in remote corners and alcoves to set the proper mood for trysts.

French, who did not yet understand the sublime elevation that separated the Greek emperors born in the purple from all other earthly potentates, were at first surprised that Manuel did not, according to the custom of the West, come out of his city processionally with shawms and viols to welcome the most Christian King of the Franks and his baronage, but sent them only emissaries who with salaams directed them to pitch their tents outside the walls at the tip of the Golden Horn.

Abruptly the orchestra ceased playing with a roll of the snare drum, a flourish of the cornet and a prolonged growl of the bass viol.

From their corner came a medley of mellow sounds, the subdued chirps of the violins, the dull bourdon of the bass viol, the liquid gurgling of the flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a rasping stridulating of the snare drum.

I made a krumhorn, and a racket, and even tried my hand at building a viol.

The instruments are viols and wooden wind instruments of the schalmei family.

After that time, the viols declined in favour, and so rapidly, that at the very beginning of the 18th century, Dr Tudway of Cambridge describes a chest of viols, in a letter to his son, with such particularity, that it is clear they had entirely fallen out of use by 1700.

The pictures of these two lyres show that they looked much like viols and were played with bows.

From this we learn that there was an orchestra containing fifes, bag-pipes, two cornets, some viols and lutes and a small organ.

Chapter III, shows us that in 1589 a sacred representation had an orchestra of viols, lutes, horns and organ, that it played an interlude with special music composed by Luca Bati, and that it also accompanied a solo allotted to the Deity.

The instruments were most probably lutes, viols, flute, oboe, and possibly bag-pipe, hurdy-gurdy and little organ.

The contesting singers were accompanied by lutes and viols, while their judges had the support of harps, lyres, viols and other instruments of the same family.

The god descended from the skies to the music of viols, flutes and trombones.

Later when he celebrated his victory and the acclaiming Greeks surrounded him, lutes, trombones, harps, viols and a horn united with the voices.