Viola
Tuning: C
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child plays the bass viol (1649) Laurent de La Hire
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The Viola
The viola is a little bigger than the violin, and its sounds are lower and warmer than that of the violin. Berlioz wrote "Herold in Italy" for the viola (by Paganini's invitation, who in fact never performed it), and in "Don Quixote", Richard Strauss presents Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's blabber-mouth assistant.
The viola's source is the viola da-gamba, that was a common instrument during the Renaissance and Baroque. The later's source is the vielle, a medieval instrument whose playing is characterized by a constant note sounding versus the tune.
Bach composed a number of sonatas for the viola da-gamba, and so did Handel.



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"Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols." (Amos, chapter 5:23)

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child plays the bass viol (1649) Laurent de La Hire

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