Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See viola da gamba.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, the metacarpus or metatarsus of some animals, as the ruminants and solidungulates.
- n. Short for viol da gamba. See viol.
Wiktionary
- n. Shortened name for the string instrument viola da gamba.
- n. A rank of organ pipes, so-called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A viola da gamba.
WordNet 3.0
- n. viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello
Examples
“Clearly, Juilliard is in the early-music business to stay: The $1 million program, which gives full-tuition scholarships to the students, will expand to include lute and gamba players in 2013; Bruce Kovner, Juilliard's board chair and the program's primary funder, recently endowed it in perpetuity.”
“The fragile tone of lead viola da gamba player Mikko Perkola, so delicate as to be non-present at times, undermined some of the interesting pieces that featured two gamba parts.”
The Washington Post: Review: Helsinki Baroque Orchestra at Library of Congress
“The other gamba player, Varpu Haavisto, had a stronger melodic presence in Bach's aria "Wie starb die Heldin so vergnügt.”
The Washington Post: Review: Helsinki Baroque Orchestra at Library of Congress
“Viola da gamba showcased in Pandolfo-Boysen concert at Library of Congress scroll down, by Charles T. Downey.”
The Washington Post: Links: Weekend roundup -- Butterfly, Tahiti, Schubert, and more
“Musical forces were pared down; period instruments were mixed with modern -- steel in lieu of cat-gut strings, cellos for violas da gamba, modern woodwinds with the antique harpsichord.”
“A Baroque orchestra, he says, would have "20 violins, 10 cellos, 10 violas, but only one viola da gamba.”
“The ensembles and the label are each the responsibility of Mr. Savall, a trained cellist, who has turned a youthful curiosity about the viola da gamba — an antique stringed instrument combining aspects of the cello and guitar, alternatively known as the viol — into a pan-musical enterprise.”
“After its 200 years of relative silence he has made the viola da gamba sing again.”
“On May 23 it's recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger and violist da gamba star”
“Like Pandolfo's concert at Dumbarton Oaks in 2006, the focus was on the two most important viola da gamba virtuoso composers: Marin Marais and his pioneering teacher, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe.”
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 244 more...
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diapason, clarabella, dulciana, bourdon, reed stop, flue stop, violoncello, suabe flute, waldflute, rackett, pyramidon, querflöte and 106 more...
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Crustaceans
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