All Viols until about 1520 were furnished with pieces of gut tied round the neck and fingerboard to mark the divisions of the scale--in short, were fretted.
This famous maker of Viols is said to have settled in Bologna in the early part of the sixteenth century.
The most ancientViols in existence are those by Hieronymus Brensius of Bologna, two of which are in the Museum of the Academy of Music at Bologna, and a third is in my possession.
The thicker chords of the great Viols and of Lutes are made of thirty or forty single intestines, and the best are made in Rome and some other cities in Italy.
Several names given are evidently German, most of which belong to an early period, and are chiefly those in connection with the manufacture of Lutes and Viols in Italy.
Fetis, in his "Biographie Universelle des Musiciens," states that he was famous for his Viols and Lutes.
Mention is made of a maker of Baryton Viols of this name.
Particular instruments were selected to accompany each character; for instance, ten Treble Viols to accompany Eurydice, two Bass Viols to Orpheus, and so on.
It is evident from this non-production of Violins that the Tyrolese were content with their Viols and Lutes, and did not recognise the wonderful effects of the little Violin until it had become pretty nearly perfected by the Italians.
Reference has been made to the Viols of this maker in the first section of this work.
It seems to have been the general rule with all the viols of lower pitch that were held perpendicularly, to hold the bow underhand as described by Sympson in 1759 (Fig.
Of the Treble Viols very little is said on the subject of bowing, the most complete instructions on that head being given for the viol par excellence, the viola da gamba.
And it may be here mentioned that with most of the viols before enumerated curious bows are placed which have long since gone out of use.
One can easily imagine how the sight of swarthy foreigners, playing such strange sounding music on the viols and other instruments, would astonish the common people.
His music for the viols and virginals not only emphasises the scope of his genius, but marks a veritable epoch in the history of instrumental music.
The black squares grew to be squares of light As the eyeshade swathed the house and lawn, And viols gave tone; There was glee within.
XIV "The sons defined their fathers' tones, The widow his whom she had wed, And others in the minor moans The viols of the dead.
It was not merely that saying everything she said nothing, but that continually there came through her wild words the sound of the mysterious flutes and viols of that unconscious nature which dwells so much nearer to woman than to man.
We do not know that we but hear in their voices those flutes and viols playing to us of the alluring secret of the world.
When the viols played their best, Lamps above and laughs below, Love me sounded like a jest, Fit for yes, or fit for no.
She employed the great Pavian Lorenzo Gusnasco to make her clavichords and viols of the finest order, and like her father, she never travelled without her favourite singers.
When the viols played their best, Lamps above, and laughs below, Love me sounded like a jest, Fit for yes or fit for no.
It was common for the Organ or other keyed instrument to join with the viols in these pieces, and thus fill out the chords of the 'consort,' as it was called.
Back view, same shape as of all other viols of whatever size.
Anthony Wood, who was at Oxford University in 1651, gives a most interesting account of the practice of chamber music for viols (and even violins, which, by Charles II.
The principal difference from our modern stringed instruments was that all the viols had six strings, whereas now there is no 'fiddle' of any sort with more than four.
The tone of the viols is very much like that of our modern bowed instruments, the principal difference being that they are a little feebler, and naturally more calm.
The pictures of these two lyres show that they looked much like viols and were played with bows.
Later when he celebrated his victory and the acclaiming Greeks surrounded him, lutes, trombones, harps, viols and a horn united with the voices.
The contesting singers were accompanied by lutes and viols, while their judges had the support of harps, lyres, viols and other instruments of the same family.
The instruments are viols and wooden wind instruments of the schalmei family.
From this we learn that there was an orchestra containing fifes, bag-pipes, two cornets, some viols and lutes and a small organ.
She speaks in an irregular recitative, sustained by chords on the viols and harpsichord.
There was mirth, and music, and light and laughter, The viols played and the dancers whirled.
It was usual for viol players to have ‘a chest of viols,’ a case containing four or more viols of different sizes.
His delicate Viols are of exceedingly small scale (some examples measuring only 1 1/8 inches in diameter at the 8-foot note).
Our viols cease, our wine is death, our roses fail: Pray for our heedlessness, O dwellers with the Christ!
Like Weelkes' Humourous Fancy, it has parts for Viols and a superimposed vocal score for S.
The Viols were later in forsaking the vocal polyphonic style than the keyed {40} instruments, simply because the vocal style suited the bowed instruments so much better than the Clavier.
Historically they are the culmination of a development toward diminutiveness, for in their early days viols were larger than they are now.
By the verge of the woodland, Where purling brooks loosen their brown tresses, Where the music of the breeze Is played on viols of the vines and trees, Thy soft words I hear Like songs from enchantment's strings.
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