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    The viola d'amore (pronounced [ˈvjɔːla daˈmoːre]; Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly...
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    making this attribution false. Scordatura was much used by composers for viola d'amore, violin and cello, including J. S. Bach, Biber, Vivaldi, Ariosti, Vilsmayr...
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  • D'Amore, Canadian wrestler *Jack D'Amore, Musician. *Danna D' Amore, Broadway National Tour Musical " CATS " Oboe d'amore, woodwind instrument Viola d'amore...
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    melody strings, one drone string, and one row of keys. Viola d'amore a chiavi ("keyed viola d'amore") – is a nyckelharpa derivative seemingly invented by...
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  • with viola specifically in mind as solo instrument, and many of these, like those of the Stamitz family, may have been written for the viola d'amore, like...
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    Timpani Cymbals Bass drum Tabor Violino piccolo Violin Viol Viola da gamba Viola Viola d'amore Viola pomposa Tenor violin Cello Violoncello piccolo Contrabass...
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    Paul Hindemith (category Composers for viola)
    1920s, with compositions such as Kammermusik, including works with viola and viola d'amore as solo instruments in a neo-Bachian spirit. Other notable compositions...
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    Clef (redirect from Viola clef)
    of the staff is called the alto or viola clef. It is currently used for viola, viola d'amore, alto trombone, viola da gamba, and mandola. It is also associated...
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    chamber orchestra. They are concertos for piano, cello, violin, viola, viola d'amore and organ. The works, for different ensembles, were premiered at...
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    Bedřich Smetana and Leoš Janáček, included significant viola parts, originally written for viola d'amore, in their quartets "From My Life" and "Intimate Letters"...
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    orchestra (H134) in 1859. Louis van Waefelghem arranged the tune for viola d'amore or viola and piano in the 1880s.[citation needed] It has been arranged and...
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  • Vadim Borisovsky (category Russian classical viola d'amore players)
    Borisovsky was also a viola d'amore player. He arranged, transcribed and edited more than 250 compositions for viola and viola d'amore. He died in Moscow...
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  • Division viol Lirone Lyra viol Pardessus de viol Vihuela de arco Violone Viola d'amore Byzantine lyra Calabrian lira Cretan lyra Gadulka Ghaychak Kamancheh...
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  • often defined by wind instruments, such as oboe, oboe da caccia, oboe d'amore, flauto traverso, recorder, trumpet, horn, trombone, and timpani. For Bach...
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    230 are for violin; the others are for bassoon, cello, oboe, flute, viola d'amore, recorder, lute, or mandolin. About forty concertos are for two instruments...
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  • Mela Tenenbaum was a classical violinist and violist, also playing viola d'amore. She performed with the Kyiv Philharmonic and other orchestras. She inspired...
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    Viol (redirect from Viola da gamba)
    instruments have viola in their name, but are not a member of the viola da gamba family. These include the viola d'amore and the viola pomposa. Though...
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    Henri Casadesus (category French viola d'amore players)
    violist, viola d'amore player, composer, and music publisher. Casadesus received his early musical instruction with Albert Lavignac and studied viola with...
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    bassoon, basset horn, violin, viola, viola d'amore and different combinations of these instruments. Some of his clarinet and viola concertos are particularly...
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    Farinelli (category Italian classical viola d'amore players)
    musicians of his time, was a competent harpsichordist. He also played the viola d'amore. He occasionally composed, writing a cantata of farewell to London (entitled...
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    in solo and as part of the ensemble. Prokofiev also used the cornet, viola d'amore and mandolins in the ballet, adding an Italianate flavor to the music...
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    used an obscure baroque violin-like instrument, the 6 or 7 stringed viola d'amore, which uses extra strings that vibrate with sympathetic resonance to...
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  • Anna Maria also played the cello, oboe, lute, mandolin, harpsichord, viola d'amore. Anna Maria composed music and performed publicly for more than 60 years...
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    Garth Knox (category Irish classical viola d'amore players)
    for Viola on Naïve Records, won the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, the second is called Spectral Viola on Zeitklang records, and a recent Viola d'Amore CD...
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    36/3 (1925) Kammermusik No. 5 for viola and large chamber orchestra, Op. 36/4 (1927) Kammermusik No. 6 for viola d'amore and 13 instruments, Op. 46/1 (1927)...
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  • Ferdinand Rudolph Fränzl (category German classical viola d'amore players)
    1710, Innsbruck – September 5, 1782, Mannheim) was a German trumpeter and viola player. He was a musician in service to Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine...
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  • Gaughan — Sonatina (Hushed in the Twilight) (2020/21) Flute d'amore Oboe d'amore Viola d'amore Examples in F are also known. Some examples are said to be...
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    Concerto Viola d'amore, strings D major 392 Concerto Viola d'amore, strings D minor 393 Concerto Viola d'amore, strings D minor 394 Concerto Viola d'amore, strings...
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    in G major, published by Litolff in 1962. May have been meant for viola d'amore. Composed for and dedicated to Winifred Copperwheat. Often played by...
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  • between a Hardanger fiddle and a five-string violin or viola d'amore which he calls a Hardanger d'Amore, first made for American Hardanger fiddle player Dan...
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