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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    230 are for violin, the others being for bassoon, cello, oboe, flute, viola d'amore, recorder, lute, or mandolin. About forty concertos are for two instruments...
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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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    Farinelli (category Italian classical viola d'amore players)
    was a competent harpsichordist. In old age, he learned to play the viola d'amore. He occasionally composed, writing a cantata of farewell to London (entitled...
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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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    nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, rabab, rebec, sarangi, viol (viola da gamba), viola, viola da braccio, viola d'amore, and violin. The purported inventor of the violin...
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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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  • Viol (viola da gamba) Lyra viol Violone Division viol Pardessus de viole Viola bastarda Viola Electric viola Viola d'amore Viola organista Viola pomposa...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • was an enthusiastic music teacher who assisted in the revival of the viola d'amore. Born in Southsea in Hampshire, he went to the Royal Military Academy...
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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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  • ""Gloria Patri" to slow mournful music, using "the unusual colouring of a viola d'amore, an instrument on which the composer excelled." Michael Talbot writes...
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  • viola d'amore in G major GWV 459 — Suite for viola d'amore in G major GWV 460 — Suite for viola d'amore in G major GWV 461 — Suite for viola d'amore in...
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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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  • 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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