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, the viola da braccio (it. "viol for the arm"). A player of the viol is commonly known as a gambist, violist /ˈvaɪəlɪst/, or violist da gamba. "Violist"...

often used the term viola da braccio, meaning, literally, 'of the arm'. "Brazzo" was another Italian word for the viola, which the Germans adopted as...

various 16th- and 17th-century bass instruments of the violin (i.e. viola da braccio) family. They were the direct ancestor of the modern cello. Bass violins...

banquet scene, as the musician in a white tunic, who is playing a viola da braccio. Accompanying Veronese are the principal painters of the Venetian school:...

da braccio which was used to distinguish them from the viol family (viole da gamba). The standard modern violin family consists of the violin, viola,...

"little violone". Violone ("big viola") was a large-sized member of viol (viola da gamba) family or the violin (viola da braccio) family. The term "violone"...

himself as a player of the vivuola (which could mean either viola da gamba or viola da braccio). In 1590 or 1591 he entered the service of Duke Vincenzo...

umbrella are the viol, viola, viola bastarda, viola da braccio, viola d'amore, violetta marina, tromba marina and the viola da gamba, viola pomposa, violino...

beginning from the middle of the century the new viola da braccio or violin), Mascara was an excellent viola da gamba player. This direct knowledge of, and...

nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, rabab, rebec, sarangi, viol (viola da gamba), viola, viola da braccio, viola d'amore, and violin. The purported inventor of the...

Vihuela de arco: played with a bow (ancestor of the viola da gamba) Viola da Gamba: leg viol Viola da braccio: arm viol Plucked vihuelas, being essentially...

Himmel fällt, BWV 18. Viola da braccio means the normal viola, and is used here to distinguish it from the viola da gamba. The viola da gamba was already...

two violins, two cornetts, three trombones (one of which can be a viola da braccio) and basso continuo. Monteverdi also leaves the option to use trombones...

to ten vocal parts and instruments including cornettos, violins, viole da braccio, and basso continuo. Monteverdi travelled to Rome to deliver the composition...

responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments (notably the viola da gamba) in contemporary performance and recording. As a historian of early...

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...

quintet repertoire Myers, Herbert W. (2000). "When Is a Violino Not a Viola da Braccio?" The Galpin Society Journal 53, 335–39. Parlett, David. "Catalog of...

frets, which is more typical of the viol family, and is rather like a viola da braccio so, despite the name of the painting, it is not a conventional violin...

four main sections of instruments: String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass Woodwinds, such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon...

legs)." A violin is the "modern form of the smaller, medieval viola da braccio." ("arm viola") The violin is often called a fiddle. "Fiddle" can be used...

frets so it could be played as a viola da gamba. It could also have a chin rest fitted and be played as a viola da braccio or it could have pegs fitted and...

the lira da braccio. If so, according to Alfred Einstein, it is the earliest known example of an accompanied recitative in music. Dalla Viola was the Estense...

Organo. Kaspar Förster Sonata a. 7. instrom: 2 Violini, 2 Cornettini, Viola da braccio, Fagotto, Violone, Basso continuo. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Sonata...

1540-ca. 1584) was an Italian composer, organist, and player of the viola da braccio and violin. His 23 surviving works are all instrumental canzonas in...

publique française », in Christian Ahrens and Gregor Klinke, Viola da Gamba und Viola da Braccio: Symposium Tage Alter Musik in Herne 2002 (Herne, 2002),...

especially considering the array of other soft instruments (viola da gamba, harp, viola da braccio, two lutes, pipe and tabor) in the picture. It seems most...

family include Baroque violin Cello da spalla Five string violin Hardanger fiddle Kit violin Kontra Låtfiol Lira da braccio Octobass Sardino Stroh violin Tenor...

that continued to be used in later classical music. Violin Viol Viola Cello Lira da braccio Contrabass Violone Lute Theorbo Archlute Gittern Mandore Harp...

harpsichord or viola da gamba. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes the lirone as essentially a larger version of the lira da braccio, which...