viol
Renaissance bowed instrument
A viol is a stringed instrument played with a bow, popular from the 15th through 18th centuries before being largely displaced by the violin family.
Viols have frets, flat backs, and six strings, and are held upright between the legs rather than under the chin.
The viola da gamba is the most familiar member of the viol family.
Fretted bowed string instrument
- bowRespectful forward inclination
- fretsWorries or string dividers
- fingerboardString instrument's pitch surface
- gut stringsInstrument strings from intestines
soundhole · rosette · bridge · tailpiece · pegbox · scroll · f-holes · arched back
Early sliding brass horn
- cornettRenaissance cup-mouthpiece woodwind
- recorderEnd-blown wooden flute
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
- virginalUnsullied or inexperienced
shawm · rebec · hurdy-gurdy
Unified group or outfit
European cultural reawakening
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
courtly · chamber music · musicology · manuscript · tablature · notation · repertoire · early music
Free-form musical composition
- pavaneMeasured ceremonial court dance
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- ground bassRepeated low melodic pattern
- airGaseous envelope surrounding Earth
gamba
Fretted bowed string instrument
- bowRespectful forward inclination
- fretsWorries or string dividers
- fingerboardString instrument's pitch surface
gut strings · soundhole · rosette · bridge · tailpiece · pegbox · scroll · f-holes · arched back · tuning pegs
sackbut
Early sliding brass horn
- cornettRenaissance cup-mouthpiece woodwind
- recorderEnd-blown wooden flute
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
virginal · shawm · rebec · hurdy-gurdy
ensemble
Unified group or outfit
polyphony · fantasia · contrapuntal · voice parts · accompaniment
Renaissance
European cultural reawakening
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
medieval · courtly · chamber music · musicology · manuscript · tablature · notation · repertoire · early music · revival
fantasia
Free-form musical composition
- pavaneMeasured ceremonial court dance
- divisionsSeparate portions of something
- ground bassRepeated low melodic pattern
luthier
Stringed instrument craftsperson
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- mapleSap-yielding hardwood tree
- spruceNeat; also a conifer
rosewood · ebony · gut · carving · inlay · varnish · grain · workshop · soundboard · ribs
- stringed instrumentsguitar, lyre, lute, mandolin, harp
- Baroque MusicBach, Vivaldi, Handel, harpsichord, Vivaldi Four Seasons
- Bowed Stringscello, double bass, fiddle, contrabass, erhu
- early instrumentslute, harpsichord, recorder, sackbut, rebec
- folk instrumentsbanjo, bodhrán, mandolin, harmonica, fiddle
- medieval musicminstrel, troubadour, lute, harp, rebec
- violin caseStorage for stringed instrument
- world's smallest violinGesture dismissing self-pity
- electric violinsBowed strings with pickups
- world's tiniest violinSarcastic response to whining
- violin bowStick strung with horsehair
- played someone like a violinSkillfully exploited another's emotions
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