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The viola da gamba, or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played da gamba (on the leg; [a] Italian: [ˈvjɔːla da (ɡ)ˈɡamba]).It is distinct from the later violin, or viola da braccio (viol for the arm); and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension ...
Viola: viola, orig. Latin vitulari "be joyful" A medium-sized stringed instrument Viola d'amore: love viola: A tenor viol with no frets Viola da braccio: arm viola: A stringed instrument held in the arm, such as a violin or viola Viola da gamba: leg viola: A stringed instrument held between the legs Violoncello Violoncello was the original name ...
Viol or viola da gamba Double bass The term violone ( Italian pronunciation: [vi.oˈloːne, vjo-] ; literally 'large viol', -one being the augmentative suffix) can refer to several distinct large, bowed musical instruments which belong to either the viol or violin family .
Viola da gamba. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. ... Is a musical composition played by a viola and a gamba ...
Gamba (Italian) Viola da Gamba (Italian) Viola di Gamba (Italian) Viole de Gambe (French) Gambe (French) String: A string stop that has a thinner, more cutting tone than the Cello stop. It is one of the earliest designs of string stops, and is named after the Baroque instrument viola da gamba. Gedackt (German) Gedeckt (German)
The viol, or viola da gamba, was introduced to Italy from Spain around 1490. Before the introduction of the viol, no bowed instrument existed in the region The viol da gamba was played in the a gamba position [4] (i.e., between the legs like a cello, as opposed to under the
Viola da braccio in detail from a fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari in Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Saronno (c. 1534–6). Viola da braccio (from Italian "arm viola", plural viole da braccio) is a term variously applied during the baroque period to instruments of the violin family, in distinction to the viola da gamba ("leg viola") and the viol family to which the latter belongs.
Jean (?) de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1640 – c. 1700) was a French composer and violist.He was a celebrated master of the viola da gamba and was credited (by Jean Rousseau in his Traité de la viole (1687)) [1] with adding the seventh string, tuned to the note AA (A 1 in scientific pitch notation), on the bass viol.