Sentence examples for bass viol from inspiring English sources
noun
A fretted, bowed, stringed musical instrument from the viola da gamba family. It occupies the bass range and is the lowest instrument in the family. Similar to (but smaller than) a cello.
- My piano teacher also plays the bass viol how cool is that!
Carved lion's head for bass viol.
The other members of Parthenia are Beverly Au, on bass viol; Rosamund Morley, on treble viol; and Lisa Terry, also on bass viol.
A glass harmonica and a bass viol float eerie sonorities, suggestive of wan light.
Prominent among these are the violin, bass viol, clarinet, and guitar.
A brother claims he has absented himself from worship because he was offended by the use of a bass viol.
Toby Mountain '72 mastered the album, and Urquhart's wife, Emily Swartzentruber Urquhart '78, plays the bass viol.
Orphée is cast for countertenor (Robert Getchell), offset by the dark colours of three accompanying bass viols.
Broken consorts of treble and bass viols, lute, pandora, cittern, and bass recorder were popular in about 1600.
The program title comes from a dozen sonatas and suites for two bass viols by Johannes Schenck (a Dutch composer, but no matter), represented by one suite here.
(Every lot was sold at once, by the way, including the 14 musical instruments: violins, trumpets, spinets, lutes, bass viols and theorbos, or double lutes, among them).
By Charles Cooke and E. B. White The New Yorker, December 19 , 1931P. 11 Talk story about the two musician's clubs, the New York Bass Drum Club and the New York Contra Bass Club which maintain caches for the musical instruments like bass viols, drums and harps which have been ruled out by the subway companies, and for musicians who have need of them.
