The bass viol was also known as the Viola da Gamba, and this was Sir Andrew Aguecheek's instrument, who was said to play on the "Viol de Gamboys.
As David Hautville played his great resonant viol he forgot all about his own perplexity and his daughter's love-troubles; but she, listening as she worked, did not forget.
These chords in which the viol spoke were from the foundations of things, like the spring-time and the harvest and the frosts; they abided eternally through all the vain speculations of life, and sounded above the grave.
He had ruled all his children with a firm hand from their youth up, and tuned their wills to suit his ear as he did his viol strings.
The great bass-viol fell to the ground like a woman as David strode forward and Abner and Eugene turned their shocked, white faces from their guns.
He drew his old arm-chair nearer the fire, carried the viol over to it, set it between his knees, flung an arm around its neck and began to play.
The brothers kept glancing at her, half uneasily, but David wooed his viol as if it were his one love in the world, and paid no attention to aught besides.
A great player was he, although the power of creation was not in him, for he fingered his viol with the ardor of a soul set in its favorite way of all others.
When service was over, the Corporal solemnly packed up his bass viol in a bag of green baize, and was about to carry it off, when he was stopped by the village preacher, who begged the loan of it for the evening.
The preacher was not a little annoyed, for he wanted the viol for his own service at the chapel, where he was going to preach directly contrary to the old parson.
I was talking in a loud and earnest way to this liquid-eyed creature, a little louder than usual, because the music was rather forte just then, and the base viol virtuoso was bearing on rather hard at that moment.
In reality the queen was one of the best musicians of the time, and played admirably, says Brantome, on the lute and viol d'amour, an instrument much resembling the mandolin.
As this young man had a very fine voice, and accompanied on the viol and fiddle songs of which both the airs and the words were of his own composition, the ambassador spoke of him to Mary, who wished to see him.
She procured a viol and learned to play on it; till one day they wished to marry her to a king, a rich Paynim.
The voice of the bassviol and the clarionet resounded in my ears from the banqueting-room, and the noise and uproar of the guests also.
It was my bass-viol player, whom I had left behind me.
This marriage quite sobered the fun-loving fiddler, so that he settled down and worked at his weaving; and at odd hours made himself a bass viol that looked to be father of all the fiddles.
In Eisenach I was told that this viol was ten feet high.
A rusty foot-stove stood in one of the old square pews, and in the gallery there was a majestic bass-viol with all its strings snapped but the largest, which gave out a doleful sound when we touched it.
As for our first Sunday at church, it must be in vain to ask you to imagine our delight when we heard the tuning of a bass-viol in the gallery just before service.
Lute or theorbo, viola or viol di gamba, treble or bass, came alike to his hand and ear.
The fiddles and bass-viol would not accord, and the parson grew impatient.
Doan't 'e knaw I be clerk of the parish, bass-viol player, and taicher of the singers?
On one occasion, while standing beside an organist who was improvising on the swell organ with viol d'amour stop drawn, a spider let herself down from the ceiling of the church and hung suspended immediately above his hands.
Several days afterwards I went to the church for the special purpose of experiment; I seated myself at the organ and commenced to improvise on the swell organ with flute, viol d'amour, and tremulant stops out.
You are to know this my ancestor was not only of a military genius, but fit also for the arts of peace, for he played on the bass-viol as well as any gentleman at court; you see where hisviol hangs by his basket-hilt sword.
He had procured a viol and a long falchion for himself, and had somewhere got suitable clothes for the Queen; and in their aging but decent garb the two approached near enough to the similitude of what they desired to be esteemed.
Then Osmund put the viol aside and sat quite silent.
The double bass was formerly made with a flat back--another characteristic of the viol family--whereas now the back is as often found arched as flat.
When musicians make demands musical instrument makers are ever ready to meet them, and the viol steadily improved.
These compositions were usually written for the harpsichord and perhaps three instruments of the viol order, the master himself playing the leading melody on the violin.
The soft-toned viol had deeply indented sides to permit a free use of the bow, was mostly supplied with frets like a guitar, and had usually from five to seven strings.
Suddenly there appeared to him an angel in a great radiance, which angel held a viol in his left hand and a bow in his right.
There were flags at every door and window; and within pealed the laughter of feasters, the note of viol and psaltery and tabor at the dance.
So the angels gave the lad white wings like their own, and a great viol like a jongleur's.
The jongleur clapped his viol to his shoulder; the trumpets blew; the kettledrums boomed until the crags echoed; and then once more the shout went down the lines as so many times before: "God wills it!
When our interpreter would converse with them, he put his viol in its position, and commenced playing an air.
After casting anchor, we went on shore, preceded by one of the interpreters, who carried a bass-viol in his hand.
In the first changes from the form of the viol to that of the violin, the new offshoot retained many of the peculiarities of its older kindred, notably in the broad, full oval of the back and top, and the pointed f holes.
So perceptible is this to a delicate ear, that when Ole Bull first performed in Philadelphia, he at once perceived that the double bass–viol in the orchestra was a very old instrument, and had been well played on.
As Gaspar da Salo was then living, it is probable that theviol in the picture was drawn from a model supplied by him.
Raphael’s “Parnassus,” Apollo with the viol in, 353.
So took she the viol and went to a mariner, and so wrought on him that he took her aboard his vessel.
He has not killed me," said Gilline, leaping out from her corner, and brandishing her viol in the air.
Others, looking at the ceiling, sigh to the viol some German ballade.
Ulenspiegel and Pompilius went in by night, shut the doors close, lit all the wax candles, took a viol and bagpipe, and began to play on these instruments all they might.
There he heard the viol played upon melodiously; drawing near he saw from afar a white shape calling him, gliding away from him and playing on the viol.
Then, all livid, she crouched down in a corner, with haggard eyes, showing her teeth, and holding her viol as if she must needs protect it at all costs.
But Gilline, huddled in her corner, her eyes starting out of her head, her teeth out of her mouth, could not speak, and clasped her viol tightly to her.
Seest thou the flyboat that but late came to join our fleet, and knowest thou who it is upon it that twangs the viol every day?
The viol swells, now low, now loud, 'T is spirits chanting on a cloud That passes by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "viol" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: baritone; fiddle; viol
