Sarnath
Sarnath , archaeological site, SE Uttar Pradesh, India, 4 mi (6.4 km) N of Varanasi (Benares). It is the site of the deer park ( mrigadawa ) where, according to tradition, Buddha first preached. Buddhist monuments include an inscribed pillar (3d cent. BC) of Emperor Asoka and a stupa (7th cent. AD), c.140 ft (42 m), high.
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Stirring laments of the bass viol
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...2000 Stirring laments of the bass viol Byline: Edward Dorall...increasingly highlight the bass viol among their many period- stringed...17th centuries of many English viol players and composers at a time...ensured a welcome for the bass viol, particularly into their ...
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Pandolfo brings Marais, bass viol to modern era.(Scene)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 6/15/2001; ; 583 words
; Paolo Pandolfo, bass viol, with guest artists Mitzi Meyerson and Thomas Boysen, at Jordan...prolific 17th century French composer of music for the now forgotten bass viol. The bass viol is a six-string type of cello, with a similar body but...
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With Strings Attached...; Richard Fredrickson's Bass Viol Doesn't Play Second Fiddle
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/25/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...violins. "My aunt suggested that I try the double bass, and I did." It was not love at first sight, but...as time went by. Today Fredrickson is the principal bass viol (a k a double bass) player of the Washington Chamber Symphony and one...
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William Cranford: Six Fantasias for Six Viols (2 Trebles, 2 Tenors, 2 Basses).(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1998; ; 393 words
; (2 Trebles, 2 Tenors, 2 Basses). Edited by Virginia Brookes. (Viol Consort Series, 27.) Albany, Calif.: PRB Productions, c1996. [Pref., p. iii-v; score, 33 p. and 6 parts. ISBN 1-56571-128-9; PRB VB9. $28.]
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John Milton: Three Fantasies for Five Viols (Two Trebles, Two Tenors, and Bass).(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1998; ; 391 words
; Edited by Rita Morey. (Viol Consort Series, 30.) Albany, Calif.: PRB Productions, c1996. [Pref. and textual commentary, 1 p.; score, 12 p. and 5 parts. ISBN 1-56571-145-9; PRB RM2. $15.]
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Close harmony of viol bodies
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/25/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...without owning a "chest" of viols - but a matter of musical language...instrumentation and texture of the viol fantasia was increasingly challenged...ensembles variously combining viols, violins, theorbos, chamber...more solo lines over a continuo bass. By the last decade or so of the 17th ...
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Wayne-made viol survives 127 years; encased to age even more
Newspaper article from: Daily Record, The Wooster, OH; 5/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...life. The instrument is a rare second bass viol, which in the mid-1950s rested in...ambitious project of hand-crafting a bass viol. During this period of history...this instrument so unusual. Emery's bass viol was not made to classic measurements...
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The Viol: History of an Instrument
Magazine article from: Strings; 8/1/2002; ; 428 words
; The Viol: History of an Instrument by Annette Otterstedt...this Nation than any other; I mean your Bass-Viol, which grumbles in the Bottom of the Consort...often overlooked stringed instrument. The Viol is an unusual text. It poses as an encyclopedic...
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TINDEMANS PRESENTS ARTFUL ARGUMENT FOR THE VIOL.(Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 1/19/1998; ; 567 words
; ...treatise defending ``the beautiful bass viol'' against the ``pushy'' violin...would present the argument for the viol. This she did, using music by four...different composers to illustrate the viol's emotional and technical range and...
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Culture: Vile diction but splendid viol; Conservatoire and Ex Cathedra St Paul's Church and Birmingham Oratory.(ROP)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...for unavoidable lack of dynamics, but Anthea Smith's bass viol delighted (in both concerts) with reliable underpinning...delicious contrast between treble 'heaven' and a deeply bass 'earth'. Purcell's bell-like cello effects rang...
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double-bass viol
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
double-bass viol. Also known as violone or consort viol. Sounded an octave below bass viol. See viol .
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bass viol
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
bass viol. Member of the viol group of str. instr. Often called viola da gamba , ‘leg viol’, because it is held as the vc. is. Also an old-fashioned name for the double bass.
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viol
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...tuned in 4ths, whereas It. viols had 6. All viols were played held downwards...superb series of works for viols, a consort (or chest) normally...trebles, 2 tenors, and 2 basses. Viol had flat back, frets, and...division viol : smaller version of bass viol suitable for ...
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lyra viol
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
lyra viol. Small bass viol .
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division viol
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
division viol. Small bass viol for the playing of popular sets of (often extemporized) variations.
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