How to Use viola da gamba in a Sentence

viola da gamba

noun

• They are set to music which is haunting but simple, driven by a cello and a viola da gamba.
  — R.l., The Economist, 27 Sep. 2019
• Gone is her ancient viola da gamba (until now, a calling card); on this LP, her voice is the only earthly sound.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Caryn Ganz, Elysa Gardner, Giovanni Russonello and Simon Vozick-Levinson, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• So Howard wrote music for old, hard-to-tune instruments such as the viola da gamba and cello d’amore and gut-string violin.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• Sarah Cunningham is one of the leading performers of the viola da gamba, an early string instrument popular in Renaissance and Baroque music.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• Performers wielding a copious assortment of electronic gear — along with acoustic outliers like a viola da gamba or a church organ — played at night in clubs and other venues in downtown Durham late last week.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 21 May 2018
• Privately, however, the artist much preferred painting bucolic landscapes—a penchant reflected in his letter about the viola da gamba.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
• The ensemble consists of music students from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire who play on baroque-era style instruments including harpsichord, theorbo (a type of lute), baroque violin and viola da gamba.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Period instruments supplied lovely sonorities: silvery violins and viola da gamba, a wonderfully dense-toned wooden flute, mellow oboes, and trumpets that brightened the ensemble without dominating it.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021

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