Again, two divisions may be placed in effective contrast, the violins being supported by a viola, or the violas by the violoncello.
Footnote 16: The violins were trebled, the violasand basses doubled (A.
The unfettered cheerfulness which runs through the whole of the movement is expressed in these few bars, given by the violas like a call to the merry chase.
The string writing is of surpassing beauty, whether illustrated by the division of violins in their ethereal range, or by passages assigned to divided violas and 'cellos combined with the harp.
Particularly the violas were inadequately represented, and it will be found that any important viola melody was almost invariably doubled by some other instrument.
The violas and violoncellos are again divided, and the general subdued effect is further enhanced by means of sustained notes for the horns.
The violins and violas are not only divided into six parts, but are muted as well.
Among minor details, the violas are brought into prominence as in the accompaniment to "Lord God of Abraham" where they are given the highest part.
But the frequent employment of divided violas as auxiliary to the wind was due to the former absence of adequate contralto wind instruments.
The violaslikewise gained in individuality, and in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony even divided viola parts are to be found.
Nevertheless, his writing for strings alone is of surpassing beauty, with its multiple division of parts, its polyphonic voice-leading, and its impassioned deployment of violas and violoncellos.
This defect is primarily due to the low distribution of parts for violas as well as for basses.
Suddenly turning towards them he called in a sepulchral tone, 'Are the violas dying?
On the whole, therefore, a spirit of devotion to the master gradually pervaded the orchestra; the violas alone bore him a grudge for a while, and for this reason.
In the accompaniment of the lugubrious cantilena of Julia at the end of the second act, he would not put up with the way in which the violas played the horribly sentimental accompaniment.
Thomas Ryan has dropped his clarionet and Heindl has dropped his flute, and both have taken violas in the grand orchestra.
These violas recall the Hardanger peasant fiddle of Norway, of unknown origin and antiquity, whose delicate metallic under strings quaver tremulously and mysteriously when the bow sets in motion the main strings.
A waltz enters the scheme by way of violas and ’cellos.
Chords of muted violins and violas hinting at mystery and secrecy bring back the love music.
The melody is soon repeated in the dominant key by the violas and then, treated canonically, by the 'cellos and violins.
When it is necessary to introduce notes to fill up the empty middle register, the upper parts being farther distant from the bass, doubled notes on the violins or violas should be used, or on both instruments together.
Harmonic accompaniment (Vns II and Violas tremolando--middle parts; the Violoncellos forming the bass).
Melodies confided to the violas are generally doubled by other strings or by the wood-wind.
The following distribution is occasionally found: Violas + 'Cellos I ] D.
Generally, one or more of the principal parts is split up, the first or second violins, violas or violoncellos.
Several Violas and Violoncellos are extant which were made by De Comble.
Double-Basses and Violasthe stepping-stones to Violin-making .
The next maker was Pique, who made Violins andViolas that were excellent in point of workmanship, and had he been equally successful in varnishing he would probably have been held in the same estimation as Nicolas Lupot.
We find that at times his Violins and Violaswere treated differently from the Accordos and Violonos.
A few large Violas exist, the tone of which is magnificent.
It is first sounded by two violas and the viol da gamba, and then drops without change to the bass, where it is repeated fortissimo by two bassoons and the contra-bassoon.
Already Mozart divides hisviolas into two parts quite as often as he makes them play with the basses.
It is written for two horns, two oboes, bassoon, two violins, violas and bass.
On his return from his next voyage, Captain Fidanza found the Violas settled in the light-keeper's cottage.
The Violas had them in their ears as though invisible ghosts hovering about their chairs had consulted in mutters as to the advisability of setting fire to this foreigner's casa.
Below us lay the two Val Violas separated by broad, rolling pasturages.
As his thoughts turn to his mother the Love-Life motive emerges through the 'cellos and violas and double basses, next in all the strings, and finally horns and bassoons take it over.
In 1615 he caused to be published in Vienna a collection of trios for two violas and a bass.
At the beginning of the above-quoted passage it is remarked, that violas were used for every kind of music, but the use of these instruments for solo playing is not expressly mentioned.
Illustration] According to the descriptions of the above-named authors, violas or violins were of two kinds.
The violas must not mark any particular time, but only pay attention to the words recited by the Evangelist, and to their parts written below the 'falso-bordone' and so doing they cannot go wrong.
The "passegiren" suggested by Schuetz of one of the accompanying violas was nothing else than the usual improvised ornamental colorature or diminuendos used at that time and up to the eighteenth century.
This maker was very celebrated for his Violas and Violoncellos.
Some fine collections made in the present century by English gentlemen consisted almost entirely of Italian violins, violas and violoncellos.
The second subject, nostalgic in its wistfulness, appears in the violas and 'cellos.
Against a descending scale for first violins and clarinets, violas and piccolo play the melody.
In his early days, for instance, he frequently wrote the same part for his first and second violins and the same part for his violas and basses, so that his strings were playing in only two real parts, and his harmony was very thin.
The 'cellos, basses, and violas play a unison quaver passage of introduction, and Malvolio obviously speaks through the medium of a bassoon.
Snapdragons and Marigolds should be a foot apart, but Lettuces can do with nine inches, and Violas with rather less.
If you want your Pansies and Violasto go on flowering all the summer, you must be careful to pinch off the dead flowers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
