Crossword clues for viol
viol
- Bowed musical instrument
- Cello's kin
- Cello kin
- Bowed stringed instrument
- 16th-century stringed instrument
- Six-stringed fiddle
- Renaissance fair instrument
- Cello precursor
- Baroque-orchestra instrument
- Strings member
- Renaissance Festival instrument
- Relative of a cello
- It took a bow
- Instrument Bach wrote for
- If you play it, take a bow
- Certain stringed instrument
- Balladeer's instrument
- Stringed nstrument
- Six-stringed instrument
- Renaissance-fair instrument
- Popular Renaissance instrument
- Orchestral string
- Orchestra string
- One of a family of stringed instruments
- Old orchestral stringed instrument
- Old orchestral string
- Member of a Baroque consort
- It may have seven strings
- Gudok, e.g
- Fretted ancestor of the fiddle
- Fiddle's fancy relative
- Fiddle's family
- Fiddle relative
- Fiddle forerunner
- Double bass
- Consort member
- Common stringed instrument of the past
- Cello's little relative
- Cello forerunner
- Cello ancestor
- Bowed baroque instrument
- Bass ___ (stringed instrument)
- Bass __ (stringed instrument)
- Bass __ (cello ancestor)
- Baroque bowed instrument
- 16th-century bowed stringed instrument
- "Bass" instrument
- Fat fiddle forerunner
- Bass _____
- Six-stringed instrument, usually
- Bass___
- It takes a bow at a recital
- It has a low-arched bridge
- Its players take a bow
- Instrument played with a bow
- Old fiddle
- Fretted instrument
- Fretted fiddle
- Its players bow
- Instrument in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson"
- Alto clef instrument
- Ancestor of a cello
- Baroque stringed instrument
- Bowed instrument
- Organ stop
- Stringed instrument
- "The ___, the violet, and the vine": Poe
- Rebec's kin
- Early stringed instrument
- One of the strings
- Gudok, e.g.
- Instrument popular in Shakespeare's day
- Treble or bass
- Double bass relative
- Classical sextet uncovered folk instrument
- Old six-stringed instrument played with a bow
- Sextet look round for something to play
- Instrument that has an appalling sound
- Musical instrument
- Instrument popular in the 1600s
- String instruments
- Old stringed instrument
- Large stringed instrument
- Old instrument
- Music maker
- Runs the show
- Cello relative
- Baroque instrument
- Cello's cousin
- String section member
- Bass relative
- Baroque chamber instrument
- Cello's ancestor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stringed musical instrument played with a bow, late 15c., viel, from Middle French viole, from Old French viol "stringed instrument like a fiddle," from Old Provençal viola (see viola).
Wiktionary
n. A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments vb. To play the viol.
WordNet
n. any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
Wikipedia
The viol , viola da gamba , or (informally) gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed instruments that first appeared in Spain in the mid to late 15th century and was most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Early ancestors include the Arabic rebab and the medieval European vielle, but later, more direct possible ancestors include the Venetian viole and the 15th- and 16th-century Spanish vihuela, a 6-course plucked instrument tuned like a lute (and also like a present-day viol) that looked like but was quite distinct from the (at that time) 4-course guitar (an earlier chordophone).
Although bass viols superficially resemble cellos, viols are different in numerous respects from instruments of the violin family: the viol family has flat rather than curved backs, sloped rather than rounded shoulders, c holes rather than f holes, and five to seven rather than four strings; some of the many additional differences are tuning strategy (in fourths with a third in the middle—similar to a lute—rather than in fifths), the presence of frets, and underhand ("German") rather than overhand ("French") bow grip.
All members of the viol family are played upright between the legs like a modern cello, hence the Italian name viola da gamba ( it. "viol for the leg") was sometimes applied to the instruments of this family. This distinguishes the viol from the modern violin family, the viola da braccio (it. "viol for the arm"). Currently, the term "viola da gamba" without qualification generally refers to the tenor viol. A player of the viol is commonly known as a gambist, violist , or violist da gamba. "Violist" shares the spelling, but not the pronunciation, of the word commonly used since the mid-20th century to refer to to a player of the viola. It can therefore cause confusion if used in print where context does not clearly indicate that a viol player is meant, though it is entirely unproblematic, and common, in speech.
Viöl (, North Frisian: Fjåål) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km northeast of Husum, and 30 km southwest of Flensburg.
Viöl is the seat of the Amt of (collective municipality) Viöl.
Viöl is an Amt ("collective municipality") in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Its seat is in Viöl.
The Amt Viöl consists of the following municipalities:
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- Ahrenviöl
- Ahrenviölfeld
- Behrendorf
- Bondelum
- Haselund
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- Löwenstedt
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- Norstedt
- Oster-Ohrstedt
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- Sollwitt
- Viöl
- Wester-Ohrstedt
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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.